CARE, WHITENESS AND INTERDEPENDENCE

Responsibilities during social isolation

Abstract

This article aims to bring reflections and analyzes that were made during social isolation due to the Covid-19 pandemic in order to think about how care is performed when women are working in Home Office. It is deemed necessary to talk about the specificity of whiteness in order to denaturalize the neutrality of being a woman, pointing out that seeing this phenomenon only from the perspective of the “sexual division of labor” makes invisible relationships of oppression and privileges that makes a care network possible. We articulate with the concept of interdependence, to reflect that for the system keep itself and for care to happen, tasks tend to be delegated, relieving themselves of responsibilities even in pandemic contexts. We conclude that it is more than necessary to reorganize networks so that collective responsibility can exist in everyday life beyond times of crisis.