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, 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 nonprofit where she worked to return to sex work, which had been her job throughout her college career. I was struc...

, a series of stories about our lived experiences in 2020, as told to Vox critic at large Emily VanDerWerff. A lot of Americans weren’t able to quarantine themselves from the world to the degree they might have liked, especially people working in service industries. Anna (not her real name), who lives in the rural South, works part-time at the front desk of a resort and full-time as an administrative assistant at a college. The resort closed down for much of the spring but opened back up in June, and she’s been on the front lines of the ongoing argument over just how much America should r...

, a series of stories about our lived experiences in 2020, as told to Vox critic at large Emily VanDerWerff. One group that’s been particularly hard hit by quarantine is live performers, people who can no longer get up on stage in front of an excited audience to put on a show. Standup comedians, especially, have struggled during the pandemic, since so much of developing their jokes stems from seeing what an audience responds to. Nina, a standup comic living in Los Angeles, has an even bigger set of concerns: She’s a trans woman who self-accepted and started taking hormones in 2019 but did...

The Lost Year: Coming out — over the phone, to your mom, across a language barrier Vox.com 12/20/2020 , a series of stories about our lived experiences in 2020, as told to Vox critic at large Emily VanDerWerff. One group that’s been particularly hard hit by quarantine is live performers, people who can no longer get up on stage in front of an excited audience to put on a show. Standup comedians, especially, have struggled during the pandemic, since so much of developing their jokes stems from seeing what an audience responds to. Nina, a standup comic living in Los Angeles, has an even b...

The Lost Year: A dad, his son, and the bittersweet realization of life’s true priorities Vox.com 12/19/2020 , a series of stories about our lived experiences in 2020, as told to Vox critic at large Emily VanDerWerff. Parents feeling overwhelmed and burnt out by the burden of child care during the Covid-19 pandemic has been a consistent theme of 2020, and with good reason. When you’re trying to work a full-time job and be a full-time parent, it can often feel impossible to do either to the best of your abilities. But when I talked to Robert, who lives in Manhattan and works as a data sci...