A room for three: Living academic, feminist lives (or the unfinished reading of A room of one's own)

Academic lives were interrupted in different ways by the pandemic. As the three authors were isolated in their homes during the first few months, they needed new ways of building and maintaining relationships. Across oceans and time zones, they started reading Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own, but for different reasons they never finished reading it. Instead, a conversation emerged about the turmoil of academic life, women in academia, and emphasized a shared quest for a feminist ethics of care. Through short messages, the authors shared stories of their lives, their hopes, their dreams, and their fears. Living academic feminist lives is to claim a room of one's own but most importantly it is to invite others to join in. This chapter is a conversation between three feminist academics and the room for three they created.