By conceptually shining a light on depletion as harm, Hoskyns, Thomas, and I hoped to challenge the gender regime—discursive, political, and socioeconomic—that underpins the non- or malrecognition of social reproductive work, of those who perform it and those who can be harmed by it

Further, the experience of the COVID-19 pandemic shows that harm is intensified in times of crises, and as crises are endemic to capitalism, this harm is ongoing (Fortier 2020). Under conditions of austerity, women act as shock absorbers, especially as care responsibilities increase and poverty intensifies, harming women directly and indirectly (79).