Quarantined Across Borders Collection

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(Media Rise Publications) Oh, David C.

COVID-19's spread has made my racially marked body the symbol of the disease.

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Quarantining While Vulnerable: An Intersectional Perspective on Race, Health, and Faith During a Global Pandemic

(Media Rise Publications) Harris, Tina M.

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, decency, and connection thrive in spite of the odds that suggest otherwise.

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An Iranian Narrative of COVID-19

(Media Rise Publications) Yavari, Mehri

Pandemics situation is very similar to life in Iran under a past war and the current sanctions.

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Communication, Care, Compassion, and Women Leadership: An Expatriate Watching Her Homeland (Kerala, India)

(Media Rise Publications) Jose, Sindhu

How effective communication, care, compassion, and a system in place had transformed one small Indian state's fight against COVID-19.

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Where is Home?

(Media Rise Publications) Lemish, Dafna

The abstract concept of home investigated as part of a research project with migrant academics becomes concrete during the COVID-19 crisis.

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Quarantine Eve

(Media Rise Publications) Valanzola, Ashley

In a small French town, a local archivist went out of her way to help with my research as the full COVID-19 quarantine went into effect.

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Precarious Lives and Infinite Hope: Covid-19 Challenges Us

(Media Rise Publications) Kapoor, Priya

Our experience of COVID-times is both particular, unique, and based upon our social standing with political ferment there is hope for greater equality.

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300 in 10 for TASK

(Media Rise Publications) Raghuraman, Dhruti

After I realized the toll the COVID-19 pandemic was taking on my community, I knew I needed to do anything I could to help; so, I began a 10-day fundraiser for the Trenton Area Soup Kitchen.

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Home is Where the Heart Is: the Bruneian Context

(Media Rise Publications) Ho, Hannah Ming Yit

This essay offers a critique of the handling of COVID-19 within the Bruneian nation-state.

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Unimagined Communities in a Time of Global Crisis

(Media Rise Publications) Gao, Weisong

A reflection on the theory of diaspora and the future of immigration

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How on earth did I lose friendships over COVID-19?

(Media Rise Publications) Wu, Jingsi Christina

Despite our best efforts at curbing unpleasant arguments that would result from our fundamentally different opinions of the Trump presidency, it took a public health crisis to rock such growingly tenuous friendships and solidify the internal boundaries that arise from our conflicting ideologies within the Chinese diasporic community.

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An apprenticeship in observation

(Media Rise Publications) Rao, Ranjani

How I discovered writing inspiration in my familiar neighborhood during a pandemic

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The Quaranstein

(Media Rise Publications) Naseem, Samina

This is a narrative of a woman, who shares excerpts from her life to illustrate that a disease is not the only reason why people are quarantined.

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Pride vs Anxiety

(Media Rise Publications) Pattabhiraman, Sunandhini

A blog on the constant balancing act I tend to play between feeling anxious and feeling proud, of my daughter who is a junior doctor in the UK, on the frontlines during these times of crisis.

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Reading in the Time of Coronavirus

(Media Rise Publications) Krishnankutty, Nalini

Limiting media consumption decreased my information overload during COVID-19, while insights from poetry and the stories of family and friends provided resilience and forward momentum through action and activism.

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No, this is not how I had expected my Senior Year would end

(Media Rise Publications) Svetlov, Nicole Rene

A Personal Narrative which details the increase in ethnic and racial tensions, which results from a general sense of panic and the influence said panic has over global politics.

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Home Alone During a Pandemic

Chattopadhyay, Sumana

In this essay I reflect about my experiences navigating the COVID-19 quarantine within the confines of my home, alone in a foreign land far away from my family.

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Eyeliner

Mark, Lauren

This piece is an invitation into one woman’s navigations of COVID-19 alongside the threat and manifestations of viral racism as a U.S. based Asian woman.