Fight or Die Trying – Indigenous Resilience and the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Fight or Die Trying – Indigenous Resilience and the COVID-19 Pandemic

Blog post by Robin Keagle

“Kimberly in Red” from Artist Nayan Lafond, A Journal of the Plague Year Archive

Genocide, stolen lands, and broken promises. Indigenous Peoples have a long history of being silenced. Their voices are muted and are often missing from the archives.

“Kung Flu,” the Power of Words, and the Impact on AAPI Identity

Blog post by Kathryn Jue

Asian and Pacific Islanders are fighting two pandemics – COVID-19 and anti-Asian racism.[i] The rise of anti-Asian crimes is now a focal point in a pandemic year, but this is not something that came out of nowhere.[ii]

A woman sews masks during the COVID-19 pandemic.

“Rural Voices” Pandemic Collection Shares Quiet Stories of Loss and Hope During COVID-19

Blog post by Clinton P. Roberts

As the nightly news rattled off statistical numbers, my grandmother sat quietly in her house, mourning a loss, unable to see her husband’s grave. Her daily visits to the cemetery marked an otherwise unbroken routine for over five years.