id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-277343-0el69uxr Berkhout, Suze G. Identity, politics, and the pandemic: Why is COVID-19 a disaster for feminism(s)? 2020-10-13 .txt text/plain 1875 99 42 In this short piece, we make sense of this claim, drawing on intersectional feminism(s) to understand why an analysis that considers gender alone is inadequate to address both the risks and consequences of COVID-19. In the popular press, COVID-19 has been called "a disaster for feminism" (Lewis 2020) as heightened care obligations within the pandemic context negatively impact many women's financial and employment security. But when we consider gender in relation to other axes of social oppression, it is also clear that in Canada and in the United States, for instance, Indigenous, Black, and Latinx women are incarcerated at disproportionate rates, even as the white female prison population has grown (Kajstura 2019) . Within the larger context of racialized health inequity, gender, economic disadvantage, age, and (dis)ability intersect in ways that lead to differential access to the supports that assist individuals in coping with the sequelae of the pandemic. ./cache/cord-277343-0el69uxr.txt ./txt/cord-277343-0el69uxr.txt