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Black and Unbelieved: A conversation with filmmaker Chimére Sweeney
Coming down with Covid-19 on March 22, 2020 completely altered filmmaker ChimĂ©re Sweeney’s life. A Black middle school English teacher in Baltimore, Maryland at the time, Sweeney was shocked to find herself disregarded by doctor after doctor as she pushed to find answers when she was still sick weeks, months, and then years after infection.…
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Ten new books about Long Covid, chronic illness, and disability
2022 brought us some of the first books on Long Covid, including The Long Covid Survival Guide, The Long Haul, and The Long Covid Handbook. Now, as we forge into the fifth year of the Covid-19 pandemic, more books and anthologies are emerging authored by people with Long Covid and related conditions, as well as…
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“Refusing imposed endings”: An interview with Alec Finlay on Scotland’s Covid Memorial
Alec Finlay is a Scottish poet and artist whose work crosses over a range of media and forms. He’s lived with Long Covid since March 2020, and recently completed the memorial in Pollok County Park, called I remember: Scotland’s Covid Memorial. This collective memorial of the COVID-19 pandemic, permanently installed in the public park, is…
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This artist is memorializing the Covid-19 pandemic through textiles, and you can help
A blue stitch for a case. A red stitch for a death. At the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, Boulder-based artist Heather Schulte wanted to turn the case and death tallies into something tangible. She had grown up in Nebraska and had been “embedded in textiles since birth,” she said. As the virus spread, she…
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