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COVID-19 Grief and a Classroom Cocoon of Collective Care
On the last day of my winter 2022 Communicating Grief and Loss undergraduate class, I am leading my students through our final course culminating exercise. Grounded in what Emily Krebs, Nivea Castaneda, April Samaras, Jennifer Poole, Samantha Zerafa, and I have theorized as (anti-transcarceral)...
When Presidential Public Grief Rhetoric Ignores Health Disparities
It was March 2020 in New York City. As one of the first and worst-hit U.S. cities to experience a surge of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, New York’s healthcare infrastructure began to crumble. New terms including “social distancing,” which were common to the technical practices of epidemiologists and public...
Mourning and Memorializing in the COVID-19 Era
This article was originally published in NCA’s Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, DOI: 10.1080/14791420.2021.2020862. Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg’s In America: Remember is perhaps the most recognizable memorial in the U.S.A. dedicated to those who have died from COVID-19. Firstenberg...
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