INYI JournalPub Date : 2023-12-05DOI: 10.25071/1929-8471.110
Ana Beatriz Azevedo Queiroz, Ana Luiza De Oliveira Carvalho, Andreza Pereira Rodrigues, Elen Petean Parmejiani, Fernanda Martins Cardoso, Gabriela Mello Silva, Isabelle Mangueira de Paula Gaspar, Julia Verli Rosa, Juliana da Fonsêca Bezerra
{"title":"Reflections about Reproductive Planning in Brazil During the Covid-19 Pandemic","authors":"Ana Beatriz Azevedo Queiroz, Ana Luiza De Oliveira Carvalho, Andreza Pereira Rodrigues, Elen Petean Parmejiani, Fernanda Martins Cardoso, Gabriela Mello Silva, Isabelle Mangueira de Paula Gaspar, Julia Verli Rosa, Juliana da Fonsêca Bezerra","doi":"10.25071/1929-8471.110","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25071/1929-8471.110","url":null,"abstract":"Background: Reproductive planning in Brazil has historically been the responsibility of individual women, with limited availability of health services. During the health crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the shortcomings of this system became even more evident. Methods: An integrative review was conducted using LILACS, MEDLINE, and SCOPUS databases, including publications in Portuguese, English, or Spanish, from March 2020 to April 2022, using the descriptors: family planning and COVID-19. A total of 1,030 publications were found, 69 of which were selected after reading the title and summary. After a review of abstracts, 4 were included in the final analysis. Results: Studies about the topic included a reflection article, a narrative review, a letter to the editor, and an orientation guide for healthcare professionals. Three analytical categories appeared: (1) Reproductive planning: recognition as an essential service; (2) Weaknesses in the provision of sexual and reproductive health services; and (3) Women as a vulnerable group. Discussion and Conclusion: With the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic, there were setbacks in Brazilian reproductive health care, such as a reduction in reproductive health services and a decrease in the supply of contraceptive and conception methods. These issues may explain the increase in the number of unplanned pregnancies, unsafe abortions, and the increase in maternal mortality rates that compromise the reproductive rights of Brazilian women.","PeriodicalId":173308,"journal":{"name":"INYI Journal","volume":"119 18","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138599669","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
INYI JournalPub Date : 2022-07-05DOI: 10.25071/1929-8471.95
Chang Su, Tsorng-Yeh Lee, G. Flett
{"title":"Academic mothers during the COVID-19 pandemic: Stressors, strains, and challenges in adapting to work-life enmeshment","authors":"Chang Su, Tsorng-Yeh Lee, G. Flett","doi":"10.25071/1929-8471.95","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25071/1929-8471.95","url":null,"abstract":"The COVID-19 pandemic had numerous unexpected impacts on academic mothers around the world. In the current article, the challenges being faced by academic mothers during the pandemic are illustrated based on recently published peer-reviewed and grey articles. The enmeshment of work and family life and the lack of separation from work increases the possibilities of significant professional challenges and possible mental health and physical health problems. Specific themes are highlighted, including strains of learning new technologies for online teaching, increasing workload, and household chores, barriers to scholarly productivity, insufficient support from institutions, loneliness due to disconnection, and pursuing perfection. The need for adaptability is also highlighted. This article also provides some institutional recommendations designed to support various academic mothers in increasing their empowerment, adaptability, and resilience, when they are facing the enmeshment of work and life. Given that the pandemic is continuing and now clearly represents a prolonged stress sequence, it is essential that academic mothers develop and utilize positive resources in order to limit the impact on their personal and professional lives.","PeriodicalId":173308,"journal":{"name":"INYI Journal","volume":"159 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133121163","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
INYI JournalPub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.25071/1929-8471.98
Hanneke Croxen, Margot I. Jackson, M. Asirifi, Holly Symonds-Brown
{"title":"Sharing Stories of Mothering, Academia and the COVID 19 Pandemic: Multiple Roles, Messiness and Family Wellbeing","authors":"Hanneke Croxen, Margot I. Jackson, M. Asirifi, Holly Symonds-Brown","doi":"10.25071/1929-8471.98","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25071/1929-8471.98","url":null,"abstract":"The Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has caused disruption. Responsibilities increased especially for people who identify as mothers needing to balance work and caring for their child(ren). Through the use of personal narratives, we explored our experiences as mothers who work in academia. The purpose of this commentary is to explore the commonalities of our experiences of trying to maintain the multiple roles and responsibilities demanded from us as mothers and academics during the COVID-19 pandemic. Two themes emerged: multiple roles and responsibilities and embracing the ‘messiness’. The need to take on multiple roles simultaneously such as working from home and parenting was challenging. Embracing the ‘messiness’ demonstrated that caring for our children while working from home caused their needs and our time to focus on them to be compromised. Our work and productivity were impacted with minimal available support but this was not acknowledged within the business as usual practices of the university. The conditions that negatively impact us, also negatively impact our children. Children have needed to adjust to pandemic conditions and their support has been compromised due to the other competing demands mothers face. As academics, our future work will be informed and shaped from this experience, and so too will the growth and development of our children. Our experiences from this pandemic highlight the gendered inequities present within academia and the potential negative effects on child well-being. We call attention to this issue to help promote change and advocate for mothers working in academia and elsewhere. ","PeriodicalId":173308,"journal":{"name":"INYI Journal","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124424959","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
INYI JournalPub Date : 2022-05-02DOI: 10.25071/1929-8471.96
Sandra Della Porta, Daniella Ingrao
{"title":"The Intersection of Motherhood and Academia During a Pandemic: A Storytelling Approach to Narrative Oral History","authors":"Sandra Della Porta, Daniella Ingrao","doi":"10.25071/1929-8471.96","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25071/1929-8471.96","url":null,"abstract":"This paper takes a storytelling approach to narrative oral history using reflexivity as analysis, making meaning through social engagement between co-authors, friends, family, and colleagues. The story presents the first author's lived experience as a mother and academic, both journeys at their peak as the pandemic loomed closer to and arrived in Canada. These journeys and their intersection are presented in chronological order, detailing the stressors and struggles of mothering in academia during a pandemic. The second author played an integral role in telling this story, by drawing out the narrative through an open-ended interview. Reflexive thoughts, authentic accounts, and interview quotes are embedded throughout conveying lived experience, feelings, and concerns. The paper magnifies structural gender inequality in academia by sharing struggles, such as loss of opportunity for scholarly contributions, pregnancy secrecy and career advancement anxieties, the reality of maternity “leave” in academia, and accounts of personal support and lack of professional support. We hope this piece gives mothers in academia comfort in knowing they are not alone in work-life challenges, encourages women in similar positions to share their stories, opens the academic world to these lived realities, and inspires equity-informed change for the good of mothers and academia.","PeriodicalId":173308,"journal":{"name":"INYI Journal","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130241604","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
INYI JournalPub Date : 2022-02-24DOI: 10.25071/1929-8471.99
Maggie Quirt
{"title":"Mothering in the Remote Academy","authors":"Maggie Quirt","doi":"10.25071/1929-8471.99","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25071/1929-8471.99","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, I use Rachel Kadish’s feminist analysis in The Weight of Ink as a jumping off point to explore the experience of mothering in the academy during the pandemic. The structural gender inequalities that constrain opportunities for Kadish’s female characters will be familiar to women in the academy who have long struggled to achieve work-life balance under patriarchal conditions. I argue that such inequalities have persisted in the shift to remote teaching, and that the pandemic experience of mothers in the academy has been characterized by challenges related to both proximity and absence. This, in turn, has implications for the role academic mothers play in helping youth integrate effectively into their university classes and cohorts. I maintain that women’s traditional role as bridge builders can contribute to positive outcomes for youth, but institutions must establish equitable faculty workloads in order to support these efforts in a more systematic and structured manner.","PeriodicalId":173308,"journal":{"name":"INYI Journal","volume":"96 44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129328628","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
INYI JournalPub Date : 2021-12-22DOI: 10.25071/1929-8471.105
Luz María Vázquez, Nida Mustafa, N. Khanlou, Attia Khan, Gail Jones, Jennifer Osei-Appiah Sodiya, M. Dastjerdi, Louise Kinross
{"title":"Health promotion for immigrant mothers of children with developmental disabilities: Towards a transformative approach","authors":"Luz María Vázquez, Nida Mustafa, N. Khanlou, Attia Khan, Gail Jones, Jennifer Osei-Appiah Sodiya, M. Dastjerdi, Louise Kinross","doi":"10.25071/1929-8471.105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25071/1929-8471.105","url":null,"abstract":"Background: High societal expectations that involve idealized and labour-intensive mothering are a source of stress, anxiety, guilt and frustration for women. Immigrant mothers caring for children with developmental disabilities are disproportionately burdened with health inequities. Study goals: The overall goal of our study was to examine health promotion practices of immigrant mothers with children with developmental disabilities using the Health Promotion Activities Scale (HPAS). Methods: Twenty-eight mothers of children with developmental disabilities were interviewed using the HPAS. A grounded theory approach was utilized to analyze the qualitative data. Results: Immigrant mothers of children with developmental disabilities’ engagement in health promoting activities is influenced by their role as primary caregivers, the gendered nature of mothering, non-Western views on health promotion, mothers’ burden from inequities and structural barriers pertaining to funding, disability, and migration status. The responses on the HPAS also underscore motherhood as a social construct with embedded assumptions and social expectations related to role and responsibilities that requires them to be “good” mothers. Discussion and Conclusion: There is need to incorporate transformative health promotion approaches in research and practice that consider mothers’ multicultural contexts. The intersections of motherhood, disability, gendered role expectations and migration need to be taken into account.","PeriodicalId":173308,"journal":{"name":"INYI Journal","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133381078","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
INYI JournalPub Date : 2021-12-21DOI: 10.25071/1929-8471.93
Marina Heifetz
{"title":"Resilience and Challenges of Working Mothers during COVID-19","authors":"Marina Heifetz","doi":"10.25071/1929-8471.93","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25071/1929-8471.93","url":null,"abstract":"The pandemic has brought on much hardships and highlighted the many inequities in our lives, including the increasing workload for working mothers. Compared to pre-pandemic, maternal research has found mothers to have increases in anxiety and depression during the pandemic. Given the added stressors of the pandemic, this paper aims to highlight some evidence-based strategies that mothers can use to support their mental health during the pandemic and beyond. These mental health strategies include (1) Self-compassion and mindfulness (2) Physical self-care (sleep and physical activity time); (3) Connecting time (maintaining social connections and shared responsibilities); and (4) Playtime (having fun!).","PeriodicalId":173308,"journal":{"name":"INYI Journal","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127390341","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
INYI JournalPub Date : 2021-11-30DOI: 10.25071/1929-8471.86
Erika Campbell, Karen M. Lawford
{"title":"Combating Physician-Assisted Genocide and White Supremacy in Healthcare through Anti-Oppressive Pedagogies in Canadian Medical Schools to Prevent the Coercive and Forced Sterilization of Indigenous Women","authors":"Erika Campbell, Karen M. Lawford","doi":"10.25071/1929-8471.86","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25071/1929-8471.86","url":null,"abstract":"Coercive and forced sterilization of Indigenous Peoples are acts of genocide that are rooted in colonialism and white supremacy and require fundamental changes to undergraduate medical education. I (Erika Campbell) draw upon the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada’s 24th Call to Action, which calls for “skills-based training in intercultural competency, conflict resolution, human rights, and anti-racism” in medical schools. Additionally, I draw upon Call for Justice 7.6 from the Reclaiming Power and Place: The Final Report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girl, which calls upon institutions and health service providers be educated in areas including, but not limited to: the history of colonialism in the oppression and genocide of Inuit, Métis, and First Nations Peoples; anti-bias and anti-racism; local language and culture; and local health and healing practice. I analyzed the responses of all 17 undergraduate medical programs in Canada to determine how they incorporated anti-racism within their medical education to meet the Calls to Action and Justice. All undergraduate medical programs include some form of cultural learning, which I argue does not directly challenge racism and colonialism. As such, I advocate for the implementation of anti-oppressive pedagogies within curricula to facilitate the unlearning of colonial rhetoric. I further argue the implementation of anti-oppressive pedagogies within education will contribute to the eradication of the ongoing genocide of Indigenous Peoples and white supremacy within our healthcare systems.","PeriodicalId":173308,"journal":{"name":"INYI Journal","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117162069","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
INYI JournalPub Date : 2021-11-26DOI: 10.25071/1929-8471.83
A. Barlow, Fiona Edwards
{"title":"The True North Strong and Free? Casting Shadows on Whose History Students Learn in Canadian Universities","authors":"A. Barlow, Fiona Edwards","doi":"10.25071/1929-8471.83","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25071/1929-8471.83","url":null,"abstract":"Race-based discrimination in Canada exists at the institutional and structural level. While acknowledging its existence is a crucial first step in eradicating this particular form of discrimination, an essential second step includes implementing structural changes at the institutional level in Canadian universities. In an effort to disrupt the Eurocentricity of knowledge production this commentary argues that the Canadian government’s official historical narrative that depicts Canada as being born of the pioneering spirit of British and French white settlers fails to capture the actual history of the country. Rather, it fosters the continuation of the supremacy of whiteness thereby causing significant harm through the perpetuation of racial bias. We argue that the history and contributions of Indigenous, Black, and Chinese Canadians, all of whom were in this country prior to confederation, should be told in a mandatory university course. Our findings indicate that while a number of universities have individual courses, usually electives and some graduate degrees on Indigenous, Black, and Chinese history, there is little offered from the Canadian context and certainly nothing that is a mandatory course requirement. In addition, we suggest compulsory university staff-wide anti-racism training; the ongoing hiring of professors and sessional instructors who are racially representative of the population of Canada; and community outreach, mentorship, and counselling programs that are designed to help students who are underrepresented in Canadian universities. In our opinion, we believe that these changes have the potential to provide a lens to disrupt settler colonial spaces, mobilize race in academic curricula, and encourage social justice actions that can offer a more inclusive learning environment.","PeriodicalId":173308,"journal":{"name":"INYI Journal","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124942358","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
INYI JournalPub Date : 2021-11-22DOI: 10.25071/1929-8471.94
Luísa Santos
{"title":"A liberdade é a coisa mais cara da vida (freedom is the most expensive thing in life)","authors":"Luísa Santos","doi":"10.25071/1929-8471.94","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25071/1929-8471.94","url":null,"abstract":"A short story that came to life through the observation of an artwork by Sara&André, this text is a personal viewpoint on being a mother, an academic and an independent curator, during the current COVID-19 pandemic.","PeriodicalId":173308,"journal":{"name":"INYI Journal","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133460369","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}