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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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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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Colorado art exhibition showcases creative expressions of Long COVID, advocates for research and treatment
A new exhibition at the Artworks Center for Contemporary Art in Loveland, Colorado, showcases 24 pieces of visual art by 15 artists who live with or are impacted by Long COVID. Within a dynamic gallery space, a diversity of work showcases different aspects of the Long COVID experience under the theme “And Still It Remains.”
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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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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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Learning how to live and die with Long Covid
by Miles W. Griffis, High Country News This story was originally published by High Country News. The heady scent of wet creosote hung in the air the morning we skirted impossible alluvial fans on our way to the lowest point in North America. Since the Pleistocene, Badwater Basin, 236 feet below sea level, has primarily…
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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 Chimére 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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