The politics of organising during the pandemic

ABSTRACT

This article briefly discusses the two organising groups that I was a part of and their political transitions brought on by the pandemic. Drawing on my experience as a framework, the article provides a brief description of both the organisations and explicate the transitions. In the latter half of the article, I dwell upon the implications of this on organising and proceed to draw upon work of Black scholars and activists to argue for the breakdown of the contested binary of the personal and the political for an organising ethic based on solidarity.

KEYWORDS:

• Politics
• pandemic
• activism
• solidarity

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Annapurna Menon

Annapurna Menon is a Visiting Lecturer and Doctoral Researcher at the University of Westminster. Her current research focuses on the coloniality of postcolonial nation-states where her focus is on India.