Next Time There's a Pandemic
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 13
9781772126051
Category
Biography
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Publication Year
2022
Publisher
University of Alberta Press, Canada
Pages
64
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Description
"During my first post-lockdown massage, I willingly engaged in the requisite chit chat about lockdown experiences with my therapist. He gushed behind his mask: 'Oh man. It was so great. Every day I woke up, drank coffee, read, rode my bike'
My therapist's description did sound pretty great. But it was nothing like my own anxiety-ridden ordeal
Had I done the lockdown wrong?"
In Next Time There's a Pandemic, artist Vivek Shraya reflects on how she might have approached 2020 and the COVID-19 pandemic differently, and how challenging and changing pervasive expressions, attitudes, and behaviours might transform our experiences of life in—and after—the pandemic. What might happen if, rather than urging one another to "stay safe," we focused instead on being caring? Wha...
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My therapist's description did sound pretty great. But it was nothing like my own anxiety-ridden ordeal
Had I done the lockdown wrong?"
In Next Time There's a Pandemic, artist Vivek Shraya reflects on how she might have approached 2020 and the COVID-19 pandemic differently, and how challenging and changing pervasive expressions, attitudes, and behaviours might transform our experiences of life in—and after—the pandemic. What might happen if, rather than urging one another to "stay safe," we focused instead on being caring? Wha...
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Number of Copies
1
