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, a series of stories about our lived experiences in 2020, as told to Vox critic at large Emily VanDerWerff. Before Covid-19 hit, Honey rarely left the house. Much of their work as an artist and photographer could happen within their home, and they were used to spending a lot of time alone. Chronic physical and mental conditions made staying at home a strong preference. But that hasn’t been true in the midst of the pandemic. In the past nine months, Honey has taken a job with the post office as a delivery driver and gotten married (to someone they met

Daily Post Nigeria Published How will you remember Year 2020? And what happened to those prophecies that ushered in the year? As we bade farewell to Year 2019, people made their individual New Year resolutions. For some, it was to continue with their good practices; for others, it was to change their ways of life – like quit smoking, lose weight, save more and spend less. Nations and the component states also made their projections that revolved around shoring up their revenues so as to be able to prosecute their budgets and give their constituents better life. As usual, futurists cast thei...

Finally, we can say it: 2020 is almost over. Good riddance. As we look to finally bring a close to this annus horribilis, America will be living amid the detritus for years — a devastating economic downturn, a generation of students behind in education, the collective psychic trauma of prolonged isolation. 2020 will be hard to forget. But in 100 years, when those of us who lived through the year that everything stopped have died out, how will future generations look back on what happened? How will history be able to encapsulate just how crazy 2020 was? We can only imagine an encyclopedia...

, a series of stories about our lived experiences in 2020, as told to Vox critic at large Emily VanDerWerff. When Alayna got in touch to tell me her story of a tumultuous 2020, she titled the email “A Very COVID Christmas.” And even though she’s had a stressful, difficult year — one that involved opening a vintage clothing store just as quarantine began and losing a pet in the midst of the pandemic — a subject line that could have been the name of a Hallmark movie was apt. Alayna, stuck in the building that is both her store and her apartment for most of the year with mostly her bul...

The Lost Year: A sudden crisis, online sex work, and a better understanding of privilege Vox.com 12/22/2020 , a series of stories about our lived experiences in 2020, as told to Vox critic at large Emily VanDerWerff. For many of us, 2020 has brought a decided decline in intimacy. I don’t just mean sex. I mean — when’s the last time you saw a friend face to face, maskless, to have an honest conversation? Weeks? Months? Almost a year? Rebecca lives in British Columbia and worked as a counselor before the pandemic. But early in the pandemic, a personal tragedy led her to leave the nonpr...