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Tag: Covid-19

From Bed to Shed: Writing Through the Pandemic

31st March 2022  Lucy Writers

Two years after the first UK lockdown, writers Shamini Sriskandarajah and Elodie Barnes reflect on how the restrictions (and opportunities) of Covid-19 have altered and shaped their creative practices.

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Posted in Arts, Books, Creative Writing, InterviewsTagged: Covid-19, Elodie Rose Barnes, Lockdown Living, lockdown writing, Pandemic, recovery, Shamini Sriskandarajah, writing

Owning the Body by Ayo Deforge

21st March 2022  Ayo Deforge

In this moving and powerful piece, Author Ayo Deforge discusses bodily agency, freedom of choice and consent, and the French state’s unrelenting control over citizens’ bodies during the pandemic.

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Posted in Creative Writing, Health and Wellbeing, Non-Fiction, OpinionTagged: Bodies, Corona Virus, Covid-19, France, My Body's Bodies Editorial, Pandemic, vaccination

Cooking in Remembrance by Leila Gamaz

20th July 2021  Leila Gamaz

Unable to speak the same language, Leila Gamaz and her Algerian grandmother communicated through food. Here, Gamaz remembers their time cooking together and the meals savoured by all the family.

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Posted in Creative Writing, Non-FictionTagged: Covid-19, Eid, family history, Food, Grandmothers, heritage, Memorial

“We were very merry”: What Ida Nettleship John taught me about friendship and growing up

3rd March 20213rd March 2021  Eliza Goodpasture

Reading about the life and friendships of artist Ida Nettleship John has given doctoral student, Eliza Goodpasture, comfort during lockdown and companionship when friends feel far away.

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Posted in Art and design, Arts, Creative Writing, Non-FictionTagged: art, Covid-19, Disembodied Voices, Disembodied Voices: Friendship During the Pandemic, Dorealia McNeil, Edna Clarke Hall, Edna Waugh, Eliza Goodpasture, friendship, Gwen Salmond, Ida John, Sale School of Art, Wuthering heights

‘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

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