27 July 2020
Dear Future Historian,
Your LexisNexis news database search for March – July 2020 on the Covid-19 pandemic tells you that there is a cultural divide around wearing masks to help limit the spread of the virus.
A month or so ago, radical conservatives stole the feminist/pro-choice slogan “My body; my choice,” claiming that if they want to go mask-less, it’s their prerogative. They miss the point; a virus, unlike a pregnancy, is “spread” via saliva or mucus from an uncovered cough or sneeze; hence it is not only about one’s own bodily rights and autonomy.
What you can’t know from your LexisNexis database search is that some of us love being masked.
Covid-19 protection and: as costume.
My costume is feminist superhero. (See attached primary source.)
More soon, I know this may send your research on radical intersectional feminist body politics in the early twenty-first century in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic in new directions.
Love,
Dr. B.
Dr. Bly (or “Dr. B.” to colleagues and students) is a radical homesteader, educator, writer-artist, yoga teacher, activist, and parent. Her live-work space, destruction homestead U.S.A., is a site of creativity and community connection. Dr. B. is a writer of history, gender studies, art criticism, memoir, and creative fiction. Find Dr. B. on Instagram: Feminist.thug and patreon.com/feminist_thug.
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