Arts & Culture
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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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Long COVID advocacy is incomplete without sex workers
To Olive and other Black queer community members, many Long COVID advocates pay lip service to the disease’s disproportionate effects on Black, Brown, and trans communities while excluding those voices from larger policy discussions.
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Leslie Lee III, culture critic and Long COVID advocate, dies at 43
Leslie Lee III, an educator, critic, and Long COVID advocate, died on November 10. He was 43.
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Patricia Lockwood explores the depths of Long COVID in the new novel “Will There Ever Be Another You”
In her new novel Will There Ever Be Another You, which chronicles her experience of the COVID-19 pandemic, literary icon Patricia Lockwood writes, “‘Please don’t write about it,’ people were already begging each other, so she kept the notebook secret.”
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Posthumous album of singer Kara Jane released on Severe ME Awareness Day
This month, on August 8, the posthumous album of a young singer was released to mark Severe ME Awareness Day. Kara Jane, from Derbyshire in the U.K., had myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) for most of her life and died in January 2023 at just 32 years old. Despite a life of immense pain and restriction, Kara…
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‘Black Swan’ graphic designer, Derrick Kardos, dies at 53 due to complications of Long COVID
Derrick Kardos, an Oscar-nominated graphic designer and Long COVID advocate, died on July 18 at the age of 53 due to complications of Long COVID, his family recently announced.
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Video essay: How does Long COVID affect queer and trans communities?
Taipei is a drag queen in dramatic vampy makeup and a platinum blonde bob hairstyle. She wears a glitter burgundy dress with a bright red fur lined jacket over the top. She summarizes the unique ways in which Long COVID affects the queer and trans communities, showing examples of articles to illustrate her talking points.
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