Scenes from a pandemic: 4
News Posted in Echoing Ida
Episode 8: “Our Companion Animals, Our Selves” feat. Kay Ulanday Barrett
What can a companion animal mean to a disabled person of color? Turns out a hell of a lot!
Mama Claudia Taught Me
Reflections on Blackness, Queerness and Covid-19.
Q&A: Author Samantha Irby talks middle age, hand soap, and loving Judge Mathis
Author and humorist Samantha Irby finds herself unexpectedly well-equipped to handle the novel coronavirus crisis.
Black Muslims in US fear they could be ‘disproportionately impacted’ by coronavirus
The community is often rendered invisible within the larger Black and Muslim populations.
Abortion Is Essential Health Care, Including during a Public Health Crisis
We mustn’t be fooled: it isn’t COVID-19 now, abortions later. Immediate access to services for both are equally crucial.
Federal inmates will spend the next 14 days in their cells
The solution to coronavirus cannot be simply falling back on a practice that is already known to cause significant damage to incarcerated people’s mental and physical health.
Let Trans Kids Know: You are Not Alone
Right now, there is a trans child out there who feels alone and invisible. …
One COVID-19 Survivor Speaks Out
Let’s use Bonita’s experience and the experiences of others to help us navigate this crisis. We are better together.
Forecasting An Ancient Future
Part Two of The Drinking Gourd’s Afrofuturism roundtable series.