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Pandemics are lonely. Many of us have seen and felt the impacts of an international health crisis in our own living spaces and social lives. Japan even created a new government position — the Minister of Loneliness — to spearhead national initiatives related to helping people cope through this time. I have definitely felt the…
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In March 2021, we focused on women. Like usual, right? But this March — and the preceding year — was anything but normal. We’re officially one year into a pandemic the likes of which none of us alive has ever seen before and the strain is really showing at all of our seams. On that theme,…
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With COVID-19 still dominating news cycles nearly a year after its onset, pandemic fatigue is real. It’s difficult to imagine an end to the closures, isolation, and threat of a rapidly evolving and deadly disease. But for some, the fatigue looks a little different. What happens when you wake up one day and realize an…
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It’s been about 360ish days since my sons have seen the inside of a classroom, thanks to a global pandemic and regional stay-at-home orders. Tomorrow, my second grader returns to school – a year older and hopefully a little wiser – to finish out the year. My sixth grader is still home, waiting for the…
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Social disconnection is very real this holiday season, as we round out a full nine months of the Covid-19 pandemic. Recent studies have shown that due to COVID-19, there have been increases not only in isolation measures like social distancing, but also widespread increases in anxiety, loneliness, and insomnia. Remember that the loneliness, grief, and…
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We’re roughly nine months into the COVID-19 pandemic and our “new” normal isn’t feeling so new anymore now is it? Instead of going about our daily routines of our old lives, we’ve upended them entirely. Now, we’re at home googling the best mask brands, while many are working through the tremendous loss of our loved…
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Covid-19 has made staying sex positive challenging in 2020, because physical contact is now negative. How is a person supposed to enjoy having sex when you’re supposed to be six feet apart from people, minimizing touch? Add disability into the equation and you have a recipe for further isolation and loss of intimate citizenship —…
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Autumn is a time of transition and this September, as the air started to cool, we turned inward. We explored what truly great sex education could look like. We took an intimate journey into the home gallery of one woman’s 30-year career in erotic art. We interviewed Kenya Troutman at the DC Department of Public…
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“We make the rules up.” I said this statement over and over as I biked past a barricaded police block on a bright and warm Saturday afternoon, on my way to meet my first date in seven years. Normally I’m never that nervous for a date; much less if it’s with a stranger from the…
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The global pandemic known as COVID-19 or coronavirus, has been referred to as “the ultimate equalizer,” affecting people regardless of their background. But people who existed at the intersections of oppression prior to the pandemic are still living under those same (if not worse) conditions. For example, transgender people in DC have found that the…
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