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    • Dave, Nalini M. (Media Rise Publications; Texas A & M University. Libraries, )
      How faith in God can help you make the best of a difficult situation
    • Khatib, Maissa (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 ...
    • Kanemoto, Emi; Allgayer, Sasha (2020-05-30)
      We reflect on our experiences with (not)wearing masks within different cultures and how these experiences have shifted across borders and time.
    • Kovalyova, Natalia (2020-06-08)
      This essay describes a transfer of survival and coping strategies developed under one type of crisis (a demise of a political system) to the situation of the pandemic and shelter-in-place orders.
    • Malik, Parul (2020-06-06)
      This is a reflection on home cooking, and how it intersects with gender, class, education.
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      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.
    • Popli, Ritika (Media Rise Publications; Texas A & M University. Libraries, )
      I briefly describe my experience of how the pandemic has changed the meaning of home.
    • Paul, Newly (Media Rise Publications; Texas A & M University. Libraries, )
      Virtual communities built around food help immigrants cope in times of crises.
    • Taricani, Ellen (2020-06-02)
      Students at a large university in the United States find many obstacles to continuing their learning as they move from the university to home.
    • Tahirović, Almina (2020-06-08)
      Good done in secret brings not only the happiness to yourself, but also to the one your selfless act is done for, and there is not anything more that you possess in your life than what you are ready to give to the others.
    • Das CP, Chandra (2020-06-08)
      This essay analyzes how the U.S. government and the Indian government have handled the COVID-19 pandemic.
    • Raju, Venkata (2020-05-30)
      A poem about the use of social media during the quarantine and how we can find hope in the matter.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • Kaisar, Marilia (2020-06-06)
      Walking around a variety of landscapes and contemplating about loneliness and life during the quarantine.
    • 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 ...
    • Patwardhan, Nandini (Media Rise Publications; Texas A & M University. Libraries, )
      I mistakenly thought the song “I just called to say I love you” was about a dystopian future, but it turned out to have the perfect message for the dystopian present.
    • Sturgis, Meshell (2020-06-08)
      This essay describes the recent changes that have taken place with the Interrupting Privilege (IP) program. It explains how the program proceeded in the 2019-2020 academic year with new funding, location, and in light of ...
    • 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.
    • Frazier-Kouassi, Susan C. (2020-06-08)
      The hope and survival of a marriage confronting the COVID-19 pandemic behind closed borders doors.