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Balcony Stories
When social distancing is a byword, apartment balconies serve as windows to the world.
Quarantining While Vulnerable: An Intersectional Perspective on Race, Health, and Faith During a Global Pandemic
While my intersectionality vacillates with this new normal, I refuse the old normal rife with various and layered iterations of systemic oppression as I vigilantly hope and pray for a new world where respect, humanity, ...
Body as Disease
COVID-19's spread has made my racially marked body the symbol of the disease.
An Iranian Narrative of COVID-19
Pandemics situation is very similar to life in Iran under a past war and the current sanctions.
Crossing Borders in Quarantine
(2020-05-30)
My story of quarantining across borders has opened a can of worms and has helped me to reflect deeply, to face my old fears and sorrows, clearing the way to change my hamster-wheel daily life and cross various borders in ...
#PandemicFoodPorn: Resilience and Precarity During COVID-19
(2020-05-30)
I negotiate the complex intersections between making (eating) food while quarantined at home and sharing those pictures on social media, especially as they help us be more resilient in a world that has all-too-suddenly ...
Leaves, Lemons and Lockdown
(2020-05-30)
This blog post explores the motives, meaning, and role of food and the sharing of food and food pictures during this pandemic.
You have one-minute remaining:” What my parents have taught me about distance, loss, and uncertainty
(2020-05-30)
In this piece, I reflect on how the novel coronavirus has resurfaced conversations around trauma and response to disaster in my family. As the child of refugees, this moment has made clearer how my parents have responded ...
Making the pandemic palatable, one food post at a time
(2020-05-30)
This blog post explores the motives, meaning, and role of food and the sharing of food and food pictures during this pandemic.
Mourning our Collective Space: Reimagining our Community on the Screen
(2020-06-08)
This essay discusses how the Interrupting Privilege program created by the Center for Communication, Difference, and Equity has been forced to change and adapt in the age of social distancing.