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

  Harris, Tina M. (Media Rise Publications; Texas A & M University. Libraries, )

  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 

  Oh, David C. (Media Rise Publications; Texas A & M University. Libraries, )

  COVID-19's spread has made my racially marked body the symbol of the disease.
• Communication, Care, Compassion, and Women Leadership: An Expatriate Watching Her Homeland (Kerala, India) 

  Jose, Sindhu (Media Rise Publications; Texas A & M University. Libraries, )

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

  Yavari, Mehri (Media Rise Publications; Texas A & M University. Libraries, )

  Pandemics situation is very similar to life in Iran under a past war and the current sanctions.
• Precarious Lives and Infinite Hope: Covid-19 Challenges Us 

  Kapoor, Priya (Media Rise Publications; Texas A & M University. Libraries, )

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

  Lemish, Dafna (Media Rise Publications; Texas A & M University. Libraries, )

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

  Valanzola, Ashley (Media Rise Publications; Texas A & M University. Libraries, )

  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.
• Unimagined Communities in a Time of Global Crisis 

  Gao, Weisong (Media Rise Publications; Texas A & M University. Libraries, )

  A reflection on the theory of diaspora and the future of immigration
• 300 in 10 for TASK 

  Raghuraman, Dhruti (Media Rise Publications; Texas A & M University. Libraries, )

  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.
• Home is Where the Heart Is: the Bruneian Context 

  Ho, Hannah Ming Yit (Media Rise Publications; Texas A & M University. Libraries, )

  This essay offers a critique of the handling of COVID-19 within the Bruneian nation-state.
• How on earth did I lose friendships over COVID-19? 

  Wu, Jingsi Christina (Media Rise Publications; Texas A & M University. Libraries, )

  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 ...
• Pride vs Anxiety 

  Pattabhiraman, Sunandhini (Media Rise Publications; Texas A & M University. Libraries, )

  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.
• The Quaranstein 

  Naseem, Samina (Media Rise Publications; Texas A & M University. Libraries, )

  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.
• An apprenticeship in observation 

  Rao, Ranjani (Media Rise Publications; Texas A & M University. Libraries, )

  How I discovered writing inspiration in my familiar neighborhood during a pandemic
• No, this is not how I had expected my Senior Year would end 

  Svetlov, Nicole Rene (Media Rise Publications; Texas A & M University. Libraries, )

  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.
• Reading in the Time of Coronavirus 

  Krishnankutty, Nalini (Media Rise Publications; Texas A & M University. Libraries, )

  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.
• Home Alone During a Pandemic 

  Chattopadhyay, Sumana (Texas A & M University. Libraries, )

  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.
• Eyeliner 

  Mark, Lauren (Texas A & M University. Libraries, )

  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.
• The Same Old New Normal 

  D'Souza, Ryan Arron (Media Rise Publications; Texas A & M University. Libraries, )

  The author tries to make sense of the ideas and practices normalized during quarantine.
• Balcony Stories 

  Ramadurai, Charukesi (Media Rise Publications; Texas A & M University. Libraries, )

  When social distancing is a byword, apartment balconies serve as windows to the world.

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