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Tag: Disembodied Voices

‘The Best Years of Your Life?’ by Dorothy Reddin

25th February 202125th February 2021  Dorothy Reddin

For Dorothy Reddin, lockdown has shown that life is too short and precious to surround yourself with toxic friendships. Here she talks about her time at university and how she came to reevaluate her circle of friends.

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Posted in Creative Writing, Non-FictionTagged: Disembodied Voices, Disembodied Voices: Friendship During the Pandemic, Dorothy Reddin, essay, female friendships, friendship, Lockdown Living, Pandemic, personal essay, sexuality, toxic friendship, University

‘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

Writing with: Hélène, Julia, and Virginia

18th January 202120th January 2021  Kathryn Cutler-MacKenzie

In this creative, collagic essay, Kathryn Cutler-MacKenzie writes with and through the words of Virginia Woolf, Hélène Cixous and Julia Kristeva to convey the freedom of writing and kinship felt when reading their works.

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Posted in Arts, Books, Creative Writing, Non-FictionTagged: Bodies, Disembodied Voices, Disembodied Voices: Friendship During the Pandemic, Feminism, Friends, friendship, Friendship During the Pandemic, Hélène Cixous, Julia Kristeva, Kathryn Cutler-Mackenzie, Orlando, Psycho-analysis, The Laugh of The Medusa, The Waves, Virginia Woolf, writing

‘The Composition of Us’ by Johanna Robinson

11th January 202118th January 2021  Johanna Robinson

Johanna Robinson’s flash fiction, ‘The Composition of Us’, celebrates friendship between women – the joy, tears, late night talks and parties experienced before the pandemic and now in lockdown, online.

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Posted in Creative Writing, Flash FictionTagged: Corona Pandemic, Creative Writing, Disembodied Voices, Disembodied Voices: Friendship During the Pandemic, Fiction, Flash Fiction, friendship, girlfriends, Johanna Robinson, Lockdown Living, Pandemic

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

‘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
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