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Professor DIana Thow

Watch LiQ's Teaching Quarantine initiative interview with Professor Diana Thow!

Leah Waites

"Crepuscular is the second album I’ve put together over quarantine. It’s given me something to do with my time that helps me feel like I’m leaving some kind of mark on the world. It’s a very honest project, full of raw emotions of every kind. I hope it resonates with you.”

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S.S., a teen in Murrieta, CA

“This situation affects my mental health in extreme ways. My brain is longing for the social connections that school and the freedoms that turning 16 brings me."

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M.L.J., 73, a poet in Itasca, IL

"There’s a virus in the air, but I can’t see it. People are dying around me, but I can’t save them. There are spikes pierced in my back, spasms, but I can’t touch them."

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Teaching Quarantine: Covid-19 Case Investigation and Contact Tracing

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The COVID-19 pandemic is changing our lives across the globe.

How has it changed yours?

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Prison Renaissance Zine

Jeffrey Ward

Coloring to Cope

Quarantine Gallery SU

Melissa Studdard & Kelli Russell Agodon

Kavita Ezekiel Mendonca

Pramila Venkateswaran

Darcie Friesen Hossack

Antoinette Ellis-Williams

Pragya Suman

Ameerah Shabazz-Bilal

Life in Quarantine: Witnessing Global Pandemic is an initiative sponsored by the Poetic Media Lab and the Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis at Stanford University. Visual design by Alana Mermin-Bunnell.

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