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Tag: Covid-19

‘Friendship of a Different Order’ by Sammy Weaver

1st February 20211st February 2021  Sammy Weaver

During her daily walks, Sammy Weaver has found connection with birds, bats and lichen. Here, she considers how Covid-19 allows for friendship and kinship with those who are ‘more-than-human’.

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Posted in Creative Writing, Environment, Non-FictionTagged: animals, bats, Birds, Covid-19, Disembodied Voices, Disembodied Voices: Friendship During the Pandemic, Donna Haraway, Environment, friendship, fungus, lichen, Lockdown Living, more-than-human, non-human, Pandemic, Sammy Weaver, wren

‘The Language of Grief’ by Alizah Hashmi

20th January 202121st January 2021  Alizah Hashmi

When her friend experienced the loss of a loved one, Alizah Hashmi was unsure how best to console her. In this personal essay, she reflects on how her friend’s loss helped her to realise that grief is unquantifiable, “infinite” and often comes without words.

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Posted in Creative Writing, Non-FictionTagged: Alizah Hashmi, Covid-19, Disembodied Voices, Disembodied Voices: Friendship During the Pandemic, friendship, grief, Lockdown, Lockdown Living, Pandemic

The Dinner Party Reloaded 3: The Translators

22nd December 202022nd December 2020  Susanna Crossman

In her third virtual dinner party of the year, Susanna Crossman invites translators and writers Saudamini Deo, Denise Rose Hansen, and Emma Rault to discuss different modes of translating, the fascistic notion of an “original” language, the work of Ann Quin and the ghosts behind translation.

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Posted in Arts, Books, InterviewsTagged: Ann Quin, Covid-19, Denise Rose Hansen, Emma Rault, Hilde Domin, Hiromi Kawakami, Jen Calleja, Languages, Lolli Editions, Pandemic, Saudamini Deo, Sophie Collins, Steven Seymour, Susanna Crossman, TDPR, The Dinner Party Reloaded, Translation, Vera Pavlova

Community is Kindness: Our Summer of Mutual Aid

17th December 20207th January 2021  Tomilyn Hannah

As someone who was already fighting a life-threatening illness, Tomilyn Hannah was familiar with difficulties of social distancing and self-isolation. But lockdown gave her an opportunity to encounter the kindness of strangers, make new friends and be part of a new community.

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Posted in Creative Writing, Non-FictionTagged: community, Community is Kindness, Covid-19, Disembodied Voices, Disembodied Voices: Friendship During the Pandemic, Friendship During the Pandemic, Health, Health & Wellbeing, kindness, Lockdown Living, Mutual Aid, Pandemic, Tomilyn Hannah, WhatsApp

Interview with Shaynae Walcott of Sugared & Sprayed: ‘I am a proud black woman’

3rd December 20204th December 2020  Aysha Abdulrazak

Aysha Abdulrazak meets with entrepreneur and founder of Sugared & Sprayed, Shay Walcott, to discuss the ancient art of sugaring, speaking your hopes into existence, the beauty of black women and building an organisation that supports women of colour from the get-go.

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Posted in Health and Wellbeing, InterviewsTagged: beauty, beauty industry, black women, BLM, BLM 2020, Covid-19, hair, hair removal, London Sugaring Company, Ropo Demure, Shay Walcott, Shaynae Walcott, Spray-tanning, Stephanie King, Sugared & Sprayed, Sugaring

‘My friend, there are no friends’: on mourning, abandonment and reckonings

12th November 20207th January 2021  Sumaya Kassim

In the first essay of her co-edited and co-conceived series, Disembodied Voices: Friendship during COVID-19, Sumaya Kassim reflects on the breakdown of a friendship, exploring feelings of abandonment, rejection and grief that led her to self-evaluate and cultivate new intimacy and care.

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Posted in Creative Writing, Non-FictionTagged: abandonment, Aristotle, Aysha Abdulrazak, BLM, BLM 2020, Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Covid-19, Disembodied Voices, Disembodied Voices: Friendship During the Pandemic, friendship, Friendship During the Pandemic, I May Destroy You, Jacques Derrida, Lockdown, Lockdown Living, Pandemic, Sumaya Kassim

Postcards in Isolation 28: Somaya Critchlow and Dorothea Tanning’s Interior with Sudden Joy, 1951

15th October 202015th October 2020  Rochelle Roberts

In the final postcard of her series, Rochelle Roberts reflects on the last few months since the first lockdown, and finds comfort and hope in the artwork of Somaya Critchlow and Dorothea Tanning’s Interior with Sudden Joy, 1951.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: BHM, BHM 2020, Black Lives Matter, BLM, Corona Virus, Covid-19, Dorothea Tanning, Lockdown Living, Love and Hip Hop, Maximillian William Gallery, Postcards in Isolation, Rochelle Roberts, Somaya Critchlow, Underneath a Bebop Moon

Homemade: DIY Film-making in a Post-Pandemic World

12th October 202012th October 2020  Mavra Bari

Homemade sees 17 acclaimed and upcoming filmmakers from around the world respond to the pandemic and quarantine experience during the first few months of lockdown.

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Posted in Arts, Film and MediaTagged: Covid-19, Film, Gurinder Chadha, Johnny Ma, Lockdown Living, netflix, Pablo Larrain, Pandemic, quarantine, Rachel Morrison, Rungano Nyoni

Postcards in Isolation 27: Duane Michals, Paradise Regained, 1968

22nd September 202022nd September 2020  Georgia Good

When the world went into lockdown, nature appeared to take over, with seabirds settling in Venice and deers roaming Japan’s empty streets. Here, in the penultimate postcard of the series, Georgia Good explores nature’s return in Duane Michals’ famous work, Paradise Regained, 1968.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: Ansel Adams, Corona Pandemic, Covid-19, Duane Michals, John Milton, Lockdown Living, Paradise Regained, Photography, Postcards in Isolation, William Blake

Postcards in Isolation 23: Majella Mark, The Return, 2020

27th August 20201st September 2020  Majella Mark

Majella Mark looks back to her own artwork, The Return, 2020, a celebration of African ancestry, and asks where can black men and women go to be safe in light of the murders of George Floyd and Ahmaud Arbery?

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: Africa, Ahmaud Avery, Banksy, Black Lives Matter, BLM, Breonna Taylor, Covid-19, Elijah Mcclain, George Floyd, Lockdown Living, Majella Mark, New York, Pandemic, Postcards from the Edge, Postcards in Isolation, Racism, Rochelle Roberts, The Return, Visual AIDS

Postcards in Isolation 22: Luchita Hurtado, Untitled, 1971

19th August 202019th August 2020  Jennifer Brough

In Luchita Hurtado’s paintings, the nude female body is an affirmation of the self, a locus of solitude and personal care that reminds us to slow down and appreciate ourselves and others, writes Jennifer Brough.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: Covid-19, Jennifer Brough, John Berger, Lockdown Living, Luchita Hurtado, New Mexico, Nude, painting, Postcards in Isolation, Rochelle Roberts, The Serpentine

Postcards in Isolation 20: Atsuko Tanaka, Electric Dress, 1956

12th August 202012th August 2020  Kitty Becher

Kitty Becher takes inspiration from Atsuko Tanaka’s Electric Dress, 1956, a radical and daring work that speaks to our current anxieties and dependency on technology.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: Atsuko Tanaka, Covid-19, Gut group, Japan, Kitty Becher, Lockdown Living, Postcards in Isolation, Rochelle Roberts

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