An act of care: reframing global efforts to contain COVID-19

The narrative of war and rallying support for the battle of our lives and those of our fellow citizens excludes anyone who does not conform to a dominant masculine/feminine binary narrative.

Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland, pictured with Health Minister Patty Hajdu, appears at an April 23 COVID-19 response press conference in the West Block. Our response must recognize that women are at the forefront of the response, and ensure they have seats at decision-making tables and where we maintain positions of leadership, write Mayssam D. Zaaroura and Kirsten Van Houten.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY KIRSTEN VAN HOUTEN, MAYSSAM D. ZAAROURA

May 13, 2020

We are waging a war, we are told. We are all in this war together. We have to fight this disease—look at how this country is winning this battle, this is how we flatten that curve, and here is how we will emerge victorious. This militarized narrative is used to describe the COVID-19 pandemic: fig...

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