Abstract
- In this chapter, the authors explore how their decades-long friendship and academic collaboration has informed their experience of being queer mothers in the academy during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using dialogue as a format, they consider how queerness and the intertwining of their lives helped them rethink family, community, work, and friendship in ways that provided a support system to help them survive difficult times. By highlighting queerness in these aspects of their lives, they provide possibilities for carving out queer(ed) space in their futures and in the futures of queer/parenting/academic communities more broadly, offering a vision of a queered, more complicated, and nuanced academy where people’s unwillingness to be any one part of themselves at the expense of another might help other queer and marginalized folx thrive.