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Editor’s note: An update on a recent book excerpt
Last week, we published a short excerpt from a recently-released book. We decided to take down the excerpt.
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A timely book of poetry chronicles a mother — and her daughters’ — experience with Long COVID
Breath / is not something / anyone would dare / to hold right now, / even for luck, Ann E. Wallace wrote on the 33rd day of her acute COVID-19 case, during the first wave of the pandemic in spring 2020. Half a decade later, breathing still doesn’t come easy for the Poet Laureate Emeritus…
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“Stand Together,” an excerpt from The Covid Safety Handbook
The Covid Safety Handbook is informed by the global, national, local, and neighborhood care circles coming together under the banner of Covid prevention to center science, accurate and non-judgemental information, inclusiveness, and equity in public health. This book draws strength from all the tireless variant hunters and wastewater trackers around the world who struggle to…
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“Unspooling”, an excerpt from Alice Wong’s Disability Intimacy
Disabled love is a different kind of love. It’s neither born from blood ties nor proximity. It doesn’t hold to the same rules as romantic, platonic, or familial love. It comes from a shared desire for a better world. It sustains us in moments when we don’t love ourselves, and it offers a tether to…
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