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Video essay: Taipei on what it’s like being a drag artist with Long COVID
In our first video essay for The Sick Times, drag artist Taipei talks about how Long COVID impacts her work as a performer and how many spaces are inaccessible for disabled performers due to a lack of COVID-19 precautions. Transcript: What’s it like to be a drag artist living with Long COVID? Let’s talk about…
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Missing the gig: When your subculture leaves you behind with Long COVID
“Maybe now vocalists will finally start bringing their own mics,” I tweeted in the first days of March 2020. My virtual audience was mostly friends I met by participating in subcultures in and adjacent to the DIY tendency of hardcore punk rock. In those early days, we on the cultural fringes shared a sense that…
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Solange Knowles thanks chronic illness community, shares POTS, MCAS, and Sjögren’s diagnoses
Earlier this week, Grammy-award winning musician Solange Knowles briefly shared three diagnoses and paid gratitude to the chronic illness community. Knowles replied in the comments of a Shaun Ross Instagram post that detailed his experience with Long COVID and postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS). The singer wrote that she was also diagnosed with POTS, as…
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Filmmaker Jesse Ridgway shares experience with Long COVID with millions of followers
Filmmaker and popular YouTuber Jesse Ridgway, 32, recently shared his year-long experience with Long COVID on social media. Well known as “McJuggerNuggets” on YouTube, Ridgway has accumulated over two billion views on his videos and gathered more than four million subscribers on his channel. He is also an award-winning filmmaker, currently working as an executive…
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The first major novel on Long COVID falls for harmful tropes. It doesn’t have to be this way.
More than four years into the pandemic, There’s Nothing Wrong with Her is the first novel from a mainstream American publishing company to explore the experience of Long COVID. Hopefully, more will follow to further explore — and educate readers about — the nature of this illness, but for now, Weinberg’s novel stands alone.
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Iconic musician Sérgio Mendes dies while battling Long COVID
Los Angeles: World-renowned musician Sérgio Mendes, 83, died while fighting the effects of Long COVID, according to a recent statement by his family. “For the last several months,” the family wrote, “his health has been challenged by the effects of long term COVID.” Mendes died on September 5, surrounded by his partner, Gracinha Leporace Mendes,…
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These are the drag artists and organizers fighting to make queer spaces more COVID safe
Guided by a strong commitment to community care, a diverse group of queer performers, drag kings, and other event organizers are filling the gaps of global government failure during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Through clean air organizations, mask requirements at shows, and other COVID-19 mitigation efforts, they are making public spaces more accessible and safer…
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Outdoor dining fades as pandemic persists — making public spaces even less accessible
Outdoor dining was seemingly everywhere earlier in the pandemic — but as policymakers and much of the public try to forget about COVID-19, spaces for people to gather with lesser risk of contracting the disabling and deadly SARS-CoV-2 virus grow rarer. That’s left individuals and communities who do not want to contract COVID-19 — including…
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This is what it feels like: Artist visualizes Long COVID symptoms
With a multi-systemic disease as debilitating as Long Covid, it isn’t always easy to explain the constellations of symptoms we experience. So, In late 2023, the Oregon-based artist Daphne Mir started the project “Illmarks” to conceptualize the sinister Long Covid symptoms they developed after a SARS-CoV-2 infection in 2022. A series of “affecting and relatable”…
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How the Apricot Tree Café became a leader in clean indoor air
Opened in 1993 in Mississauga, Ontario, the Apricot Tree Café has built a loyal customer base who love its European-influenced menus, from salads to schnitzel. Owned and operated by Austrian immigrant Franz Hochholdinger and his wife Esther, the café has grown from selling desserts on the basement level of a Toronto suburb shopping plaza to…
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