Why I Envy COVID Deniers
Since March, I’ve gotten into the habit of observing large groups of people who (still) get together to socialize. The ones huddled up in enclosed spaces have been especially fascinating…
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2020 Is My Year of Online Vanity
By November, I will have completed an entire year of my degree online (bar the one glorious day I had on campus in March), rehearsed and produced four separate pieces…
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Anonymous Interviews: Are Your Friends Actually Social Distancing?
There have been a number of rude awakenings caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, but perhaps none more alarming than realizing that you can’t always have faith in your friends. In…
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Virtual School Is Bringing the Carceral State Into Students’ Homes
Last August, a Black seventh-grader in Colorado had the police called to his home for showing a toy gun to his virtual art class. His parents weren’t notified until the…
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Why I’m Lonelier at School Than I Was in Quarantine
When I got that fateful email from my university in March saying that we would be sent home immediately due to COVID-19, I cried. A lot. I was in a…
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Sorry, Hawai’i Is Closed—Come Back Never.
There’s no pain like that of not being able to hold someone that’s right in front of you. When I got home after being evicted from my college, there was…
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