Arts & Culture
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“The Way Disabled People Love Each Other”: In conversation with Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarsinha
What can love look like when you’re disabled — and how do you write about grief when the crisis is still ongoing? In this episode of Still Here, hosts Miles Griffis and Betsy Ladyzhets sit down with poet, author, and disability justice organizer Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarsinha to discuss their new poetry collection, The Way Disabled…
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Two Long COVID short films premiere at the Easterseals Disability Film Challenge
The 13th annual Easterseals Disability Film Challenge features two new short films about Long COVID. For the competition, filmmaking teams were tasked with creating a one to five minute film to promote disability inclusion in the entertainment industry.
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Two new books help children understand how Long COVID impacts their family members
Author and educator Sara Robitaille seeks to raise awareness and educate kids with her two new children’s books, Long COVID Transformed My Mommy and Long COVID Transformed My Sister into a Turtle.
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Comic: Reasons to wear a mask in 2026
Artist Gillian Levine recently wrote and illustrated a comic sharing reasons to continue masking in 2026.
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These artists are making concerts safer with COVID-19 precautions
While most of the music industry has “moved on,” COVID-conscious performers have been working to prevent their shows from being superspreaders.
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Sophia Yau-Weeks’ new single, “Nobody’s Laughing,” grapples with the isolation of Long COVID
On her 26th birthday, for the first time in her life, Sophia Yau-Weeks found herself alone on her birthday. A 2023 SARS-CoV-2 infection left her immunocompromised, and her ensuing COVID-19 safety precautions left her without COVID-conscious friends to celebrate with.
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“Invisible Illness” could have been transgressive. Instead, it minimizes Long COVID.
The book fails to convey the severity of infection-associated chronic conditions, demands for treatment, or importance of infection prevention.
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Snapshots of the unseen: How we focused Long COVID in a recent photo exhibition
Art offers a way to translate lived experience into shared understanding. Some of these efforts are already in progress: in October 2025, my research team launched a photo exhibition called Living with Long COVID at the Museum of Vancouver.
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Drawing the elephant: Nine artists illustrating Long COVID and the ongoing pandemic
Illustrators who bravely explore the ongoing pandemic in their work break down stereotypes, contextualize differing experiences, build community, and raise awareness. These artists create spaces where audiences can reflect and engage with stories that can broaden our understanding of ourselves and the world.
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Composing the “Long COVID album”: An interview with Dave Ruder
Last fall, Brooklyn-based musician Dave Ruder coined a new format when he released a “Long COVID album,” shaped by his experience with the disease.
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