The 2020 Visions: Imagining (Post-) COVID Worlds series reflects on the uneven impacts of the “pandemic year” and considers new futures that might be made possible in its wake.
Series editors: Weishun Lu, Juniper Lewis, Richelle Wilson, and Addie Hopes.
Thinking Beyond the “Wild” Pandemic
Alice Rudge examines how the language of “nature” has amplified xenophobia and reinforced colonial moral hierarchies during the COVID-19 pandemic …
The COVID-19 Pandemic and the National Borders of the Imagination
The COVID-19 pandemic is an international event, but we still think of it in national terms. Juan Meneses outlines the …
Be Like Water, An Abolitionist Relationality
What does abolition mean for the everyday ways we relate to ourselves, to other humans, to the land, and to …
What 19th-Century Domestic Manuals Say about Housing as Infrastructure
Leah Marie Becker looks into the ways nineteenth-century domestic manuals portray homes as public infrastructure. This expansive and inclusive notion …
Finding Connection and Resisting Extraction in Quarantine Gaming
During the COVID-19 pandemic, video games offered Nat Mesnard and many others an escape from isolation. But the false promise …
Be Like Water, An Abolitionist Relationality (Part II)
What does abolition look like? Ki’Amber Thompson discusses the need for more abolition visuals and how the Charles Roundtree Bloom …
Attuning the Senses
In this multimedia meditation, Petra Rethmann describes how the practice of sensorial attunement (or attention to the world around her) …
A Black Herbalist’s Guide to Breathing and Grieving with Yellow Dock
Herbalist Asia Dorsey reflects on a pandemic year when life and death cycles were especially present and describes Yellow Dock’s …
How Protest Artists Transformed Whitewashed History
In her poem and photo exhibit, Les James reflects on how protest artists transformed the Robert E. Lee monument in …
Zoom Somatics in Four Poems
Inspired by shared Zoom somatics and careful attention to spiders and lichen, Petra Kuppers offers a collection of four poems …
Surviving the Pandemic in Prison
Prisoner and abolitionist Lawrence Jenkins describes the struggles of being incarcerated during COVID-19 and the heightened risk, fear, and racial …
Framing Asian Suffering in an Anti-Black World: A Conversation with Claire Jean Kim
Political science scholar Claire Jean Kim outlines how COVID-19 came to be racialized and discusses the implications of foregrounding anti-Asian …
Why Are Anti-Vaxxers Obsessed With the “Natural”?
In this written correspondence, emery jenson talks to Dr. Traci Brynne Voyles about how ableist and racist thinking along with …
Featured image: Inspired by balcony concerts that offered solidarity, generosity, and creativity between people even with social distancing. Image by Catherine Cordasco, 2020, submitted for United Nations Global Call Out To Creatives – help stop the spread of COVID-19.