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Wednesday, June 3, 2020

Racial Dimensions of Social Distancing

By Lauren Mark March 23rd, 2020 Never before has social distancing taken on so many dimensional meanings. Spit on, Yelled at, Attacked: Chinese-Americans Fear for their Safety “I feel like I’m being invaded by this hatred. It’s everywhere. It’s silent. It’s as deadly as this disease.” Edward Anonymous "Never before have I felt afraid... More

Monday, May 4, 2020

INSIDE-OUTSIDE

By Cesar Cisneros Pandemic is isolation Living without permission to enjoy the streets To be without being What's going on outside? It rains and I can't enjoy it Sunny day with no people on the streets Pandemic is inhumanity War without a specific enemy Is an illusion only what I live? But I'm happy,... More

Thursday, April 9, 2020

The shedding of ego

By Kali Rises currently, life is a bi-polar collage of cell shaking anxiety mixed with some of the most beautiful enlightening moments that will resonate as 'peak' experiences for me until the very moment I take my last breath. This confusing dichotomy at times feels so overwhelming I am astounded I can continue to... More

Tuesday, April 7, 2020

Day 25

By Frazier We started shelter in place as soon as our schools were closed because most of our house is high risk with asthma. It’s been great for my children, they are young and will not remember anything but nightly walks, making forts in the living room, and playing outside. I started off scared... More

Tuesday, April 7, 2020

Reflection

By Alex Shafer I worked for over a year to get a student teaching placement abroad, only to be forced to travel home, internationally, after fewer than 2 weeks. To be honest, I felt safer where I was in France than I do here. I am angry that I was made to travel in the... More

Monday, April 6, 2020

Paradox

By Brian Grant Today has been, for the most part, a good day. I haven't read much news. I spent the afternoon with my son and girlfriend skateboarding around the neighborhood. There was a lot of folks out and about. The weather is insanely beautiful right now. Everyone smiles and waves. It feels very... More

Thursday, April 2, 2020

By Jamie Mccullough I have been dusting off board games and old photo albums over the past few weeks. we have cleaned the basement and donated clothes. I am home with my 4 kids while my husband still goes into work. we resorted to cutting our kids hair...I told them not to worry..we won't... More

Monday, March 30, 2020

By Samantha Nolte-Yupari I can feel the swell of energy in the world churning around me. But rather than be swallowed by the tidal wave I feel oddly peaceful; as if I'm surfing the wave. I have been burnt out this year. As an introvert and an empath, my home as always been a... More

Monday, March 30, 2020

Day 15: Afternoon Sun

By Michelle Lesley Annett Water and lemon soothe my throat while the sun beams down, keeping me warm. All is quiet, all is still, yet the birds continue to sing their songs. Winter has come & now gone away. We get a glimmer of spring, as it gets warmer each day. This spring is... More

Sunday, March 29, 2020

By Ario Yesterday was my birthday! It felt really strange, especially because I have lost a very dear friend recently and I miss her very much. I think as the world experiences a prolonged state of loneliness, all of us will be forced to face our real selves eventually sometime very soon. This isolation... More

Sunday, March 29, 2020

Teaching in the (un)time of COVID-19

By P M I have no idea what I am doing. But does anyone right now? This seems an apt endeavour in the circumstances. Since last week, a lifetime's worth of changes have happened. We queue to enter the supermarket, we talk more than we ever have before, we watch the numbers and graphs... More

Saturday, March 28, 2020

Time to Think

By Sharon Martinelli Time to think Loosing precious time In preparing for it We saw it coming but... We closed our eyes We ignored it, shunned it, made fun of it. Now it engulfed the world It’s like a warzone A health warzone Attacked by an ‘Invisible enemy’ ‘This is worse than WW2’ An... More

Saturday, March 28, 2020

By Julia Garcia I love my college and my campus. Being stuck in my hometown is depressing but luckily, my boyfriend is here with me. In school, we live in dorms that are separated by a parking lot. Here, I have to drive twenty minutes to see him... until they decide to start the... More

Friday, March 27, 2020

College Senior

By Madison This whole coronavirus and quarantine stuff have moved so quickly that I don't feel like I had time to process anything. I'm usually a person who loves to sit inside all day on the couch and sleep until for hours of the day, but since we are practically forced to stay in,... More

Friday, March 27, 2020

By L R Went out to neighbouring clubbing district Hongdae tonight, after taking a dance class near Gangnam. Clubs are shut, but bars are open. Both the dance academy and the bars take your temperature and make you sign and put down your contact details on a form. Cafes are open. Restaurants are open.... More

Friday, March 27, 2020

Room Travel

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Friday, March 27, 2020

Anxiety

By Taylor I've had a pain in my chest for two weeks. No it's not the virus. It's just my anxiety. Ever since we got word that the schools are closing, my life as a teacher has been thrown for a loop. Coming back to my parent's house from Maryland was the only choice... More

Thursday, March 26, 2020

By Jade Hose It's been two weeks in this room. I have not fully grasped the enormity of what has happened. I was already living alone, and barely interacted with people. Small circle of friends who I met once in fortinight, and spoke to family in as many days. Hence the social-distancing thing should... More

Thursday, March 26, 2020

By Amy Chamberlin Yesterday, after supper, I went for a walk with my daughter (Erika) who is ten. She wore her sister’s black and white checked Vans. Summer shoes in the winter except it is spring. There is a point on the road like a border where the gravel begins. Wet snow, slush and... More

Thursday, March 26, 2020

time, space, bodies, ethics

By Yasemin Ertugrul I often see people recording the number of the days they have been in quarantine and sharing what they do while they are home through various social media with “quarantine day no. X” hashtags. I frankly say that I would not be able to answer if someone asked me how many... More

Thursday, March 26, 2020

This future feels familiar

By Mary H As the UK government started seriously considering what to do about COVID 19 - at least in public - I was on a course in Sheffield. Quite a few of the participants were international. The course leader was in Israel and she didn't come as she'd have to quarantine afterwards for... More

Wednesday, March 25, 2020

By Katrin Bandel At first, it seemed bad, but not extremely bad. “Most people are recovering. In Vietnam they had 16 cases, and they all recovered,” one of my colleagues said, reassuring us and himself. We were standing in the corridor, looking out onto the large banyan tree in the middle of our campus... More

Wednesday, March 25, 2020

A few reflections (written for my students, the week the campus closed)

By Ute Kelly This to me feels like a surreal situation - a weird combination of normality and the suspension of so many things that we have learned to experience, expect and accept as normal. A suspension, too, of some things that I really value - face to face encounters, the healing potential of... More

Wednesday, March 25, 2020

Day by Day

By Michelle Lesley Annett What day is it again? I ask myself this question multiple times a day. Today marks day 12 of practicing self isolation and I’ve been attempting to cope with the repercussions of my declining health, loneliness, depression, anxiety and feelings of helplessness. It has not been easy, yet I recognize... More

Wednesday, March 25, 2020

Beyond

By GB I’m lost somewhere in the curve-ball that Corona has created. I look for the steady markers of daily life – deadlines still loom; emails are still received – and sent; my morning alarm still sounds; the sun still rises – and sets. Life continues. That is to say, my life continues. That... More

Tuesday, March 24, 2020

LTE (Long Term Evolution)

By Michaela van Beinum Deep breath in you're okay, it was a really testing and trying day The world is on fire this we have known to calm the flame we must stay home Creation is calling and so is my heart my 9 - 5 job is tearing me apart A sea of... More

Tuesday, March 24, 2020

Still and Silent

By Armrget Kaur I live in the UK Scotland to be precise, here in the Highlands people have close d off, they began to firstly raid the shops (well buy as opposed to riot), they had this fixation with toilet roll , I sure Freud could say something about anal suppression on this. Then... More

Monday, March 23, 2020

The Essentials

By Jacob Cameron Wondering all the time What things will be like in the wake of all this. Off to pick up bagels Before services shut down And heading through the snow. I notice C.M. in a hardware store on Bank And think of all those Whose whole lives are put on hold Or... More

Saturday, March 21, 2020

Peace and Tranquility

By Hanna Stewart What a weird world we're living in right now. As I type out this blog post, I look out my kitchen window and all looks normal. There are birds visiting the bird feeders, squirrels playing around in the backyard and the sun is shining through. The only catch, there's no one... More

Saturday, March 21, 2020

The Collective Loss of Health and Minds

By Anonymous I am smiling, soothing, making to do lists. I am taking care of my son. Taking care of my partner, who is taking care of our son. I am taking inventory. I feel that am accomplishing so much, with so little time. Our daily schedule includes: Shower Clothes Food Work Go outside... More

Friday, March 20, 2020

Huddle up

By Sophie Tamas It is a week since the world turned upside down here, in small-town Canada. At some point in the past few weeks, or next few, it will be turning upside down where you are, too. There is nothing quite like a pandemic to remind us of our shared precarity. I know... More