Black, Indigenous, people of colour, LGBTQ2IA+, disability justice activists, and class- and caste-oppressed communities have long raised awareness to and challenged the colonialism, neoliberalism, and imperialism embedded in mainstream digital pedagogy infrastructures, even in the name of care. In this podcast episode and conversation with Chris Friend, we reflect on the ethics and politics of care work in digital pedagogy and online environments, particularly as this global pandemic continues and so does the cooptation of care and compassion in infrastructures of teaching and learning, including, but not limited to, academia.