COVID Strains the Concept of Family. Let's Break It.
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the beginning of the coronavirus lockdown, the realities of both the human body’s interconnectedness and private property’s deathliness have become inescapable. Doctors in the before-time were already known, on occasion,
to prescribe food, money, companionship, abuse-free shelter, or a holiday from housewifehood to their patients. Today, however, the concepts of
reproductive justice,
family inequality,
compulsory domesticity, and the “
right to the city” have taken on even more force, as officials instruct populations to maintain “social distancing” (from everyone… except
family) and to “shelter in place” (in whose place? Your
family’s).
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