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Item Helplessness(2020-05-30) Raju, VenkataA poem about the use of social media during the quarantine and how we can find hope in the matter.Item Of borders and Borders: from here to the moon(2020-05-30) Krenčeyová, MišaIt is not only the current pandemic that contributes to re-establishing borders after some of them seemed to have been dissolved.Item This Quarantine Period(2020-05-30) Mohan, KalpanaI look at the origin of the word "quarantine" and its significance and note that the idea of quarantine is not new for women who hail the Tamil Brahmin community in South India.Item You have one-minute remaining:” What my parents have taught me about distance, loss, and uncertainty(2020-05-30) Hatef, AzetaIn 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 to uncertainty and the ways in which these methods inform my understanding of distance and loss.Item Leaves, Lemons and Lockdown(2020-05-30) Vangal, UmaThis blog post explores the motives, meaning, and role of food and the sharing of food and food pictures during this pandemic.Item The Long Walk Home: The Covid-19 Triggered Migration of India’s Migrant Workers From The Cities To Their Homes(2020-05-30) Misra, Yagnya ValkyaThe Long Walk Home: The Covid-19 Triggered Migration of India’s Migrant Workers From The Cities To Their HomesItem La Frontera de COVID-19(2020-05-30) Ramirez, AnthonyIn this essay, I discuss the various fronteras (borders) caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and discuss how it has affected my hometown of El Paso, Texas.Item The Pandemic and the self(2020-05-30) Bodhananda, SwamiReflections on the self, spirituality, migrant workers, and confinement during the pandemic.Item Making the pandemic palatable, one food post at a time(2020-05-30) Bellur, SaraswathiThis blog post explores the motives, meaning, and role of food and the sharing of food and food pictures during this pandemic.Item COVID-19 Lockdown, Border Quarantine and Traditional Burial Rites in Igbo of South-Eastern Nigeria(2020-05-30) Oko, Arua; Chukwu, JosephThis essay demonstrates how cultural practices in some areas run in conflict with government policies on the control of the spread of COVID-19.Item Worry, the only constant(2020-05-30) Iyer, LakshmiAs a middle aged mother of three, I constantly worry about my mother and my children. It is the only constant in my life.Item Cultural Transformation of Masks as Etiquette, Threat, and Prevention(2020-05-30) Kanemoto, Emi; Allgayer, SashaWe reflect on our experiences with (not)wearing masks within different cultures and how these experiences have shifted across borders and time.Item Pandemic Enlightens(2020-05-30) Gupta, SmitaPandemic enlightens with lessons of cooperation, solidarity and humanity.Item Single, Black and Alone: Thoughts about Sheltering in a Place that Does Not Feel Like Home(2020-05-30) Smith, StellaEssay about emotions you might feel if you are single and have to shelter in a place where you live, but do not consider to be home.Item The Pandemic, India’s Lockdown and the Fear of the Indian-Americans(2020-05-30) Dutt-Ballerstadt, ReshmiThis essay narrates the fear and anxiety faced by the Indian-Americans (NRI’s) about their parents and the elderly living in India as they navigate the ramifications of the lockdown in both India and the U.S.Item #PandemicFoodPorn: Resilience and Precarity During COVID-19(2020-05-30) Mitra, RahulI 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 changed forever.Item Split in Two(2020-05-30) Anand, LakshmiA family, split in two, has oscillated between two continents for years now and does not find the quarantine debilitating.Item Crossing Borders in Quarantine(2020-05-30) Khatib, MaissaMy 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 my life fearlessly.Item “My loneliness is killing me”: Faculty contribution to international students’ ability to cope with COVID-19 isolation(2020-06-02) van Essen, Christina MariaThis essay addresses contributions faculty members could make in reducing students' experience of loneliness as well as actions students should take to be under faculty members' radar.Item From classroom to online: impact on college students of the COVID-19 virus in 2020(2020-06-02) Taricani, EllenStudents at a large university in the United States find many obstacles to continuing their learning as they move from the university to home.