June 26, 2020
In her genre-bending videopoem, Varsha Dutta Pujari tries to offer a lyric for the inhumane and terrifying emergency that the covid-19...
June 22, 2020
Journalist Kate Bartlett mourns the closing of bars during the pandemic but then finds an unlikely and macabre place to enjoy a cocktail in...
May 27, 2020
Professor Sherry Zane taught a large lecture class this Spring 2020 called "WGSS 1105 Gender & Sexuality in Everyday Life." Given the...
May 18, 2020
A daughter and a mother find their groove again as lockdown forces them to bond in the kitchen, sharing recipes and catching up on lost...
May 14, 2020
As the coronavirus pandemic creates mass food insecurity , Filipino-American writer Beverly Parayno finds that secondhand memories of her...
May 12, 2020
In Tirana, Albania, lockdown has plunged the usually noisy city into a difficult and uneasy silence. Genta Nishku's lyric essay "Silent...
May 8, 2020
Human rights advocate, Savita Pawnday, reflects on living a pandemic through two places, India and the U.S. She is particularly concerned...
May 5, 2020
In this spoken word dispatch from London, Layla Maghribi observes that the pandemic has revealed the cracks in our systems and institutions...
May 4, 2020
Somali-Italian writer Ubah Cristina Ali Farah shares an excerpt from the novel she has been working on. As the pandemic forced people...
May 1, 2020
In Anna Badkhen's story "Queen of Sheeba Gourmet Burger," told in the first person, a woman spends her hours in an outdoor café in Addis...
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