Caregiving, Disability and Gender in Academia in the Time of COVID-19

Abstract

We are a community of academic women who parent children with disabilities. In this essay, we draw on our experiences as mother-scholars and our collective experiences as an affinity community to demonstrate how the university system often ignores us as whole people, fragmented between our worlds as academics and as carers. We offer this integrated systems-of-care model as a counternarrative to the dominant emphasis on hyperindividualism in the neoliberal U.S. university system.