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A COVID Christmas in Johannesburg: An unexpected 'celebration' in unprecedented times
Srila Roy • 4 years agoAn essay about family, festivals, being a single migrant mother — and the pandemic we're living through.
A Pandemic Year for Women: On leaving home to find a distant, foreign one, during a global crisis
Vedika Singhania • 4 years agoThis essay is from our International Women’s Day 2021 series, about women who rose to the challenges of being mothers, artists, professionals, students, and above all — individuals trying to make their way through an unprecedented time — over this pandemic year.
A Pandemic Year for Women: How lockdown limitations became a springboard for an entrepreneur-educator to reach new goals
Nazia Vasi • 4 years agoThis essay is from our International Women’s Day 2021 series, about women who rose to the challenges of being mothers, artists, professionals, students, and above all — individuals trying to make their way through an unprecedented time — over this pandemic year.
A Pandemic Year for Women: How self-care made working through grief during a lockdown a little less challenging
Kiran Raj • 4 years agoThis essay is from our International Women’s Day 2021 series, about women who rose to the challenges of being mothers, artists, professionals, students, and above all — individuals trying to make their way through an unprecedented time — over this pandemic year.
A Pandemic Year for Women: Bridging the emotional divide in a socially distanced era
Indu Harikumar • 4 years agoThis essay is from our International Women’s Day 2021 series, about women who rose to the challenges of being mothers, artists, professionals, students, and above all — individuals trying to make their way through an unprecedented time — over this pandemic year.
A Pandemic Year for Women: For a therapist, creating safe spaces for others meant finding one of her own
Safvana Khalid • 4 years agoThis essay is from our International Women’s Day 2021 series, about women who rose to the challenges of being mothers, artists, professionals, students, and above all — individuals trying to make their way through an unprecedented time — over this pandemic year.
A Pandemic Year for Women: For a community library and its members, what is lost and found in a lockdown
Purnima Rao • 4 years agoThis essay is from our International Women’s Day 2021 series, about women who rose to the challenges of being mothers, artists, professionals, students, and above all — individuals trying to make their way through an unprecedented time — over this pandemic year.
A Pandemic Year for Women: In an unprecedented crisis, rethinking an art practice, and ways of living
Aranyani Bhargav • 4 years agoThis essay is from our International Women’s Day 2021 series, about women who rose to the challenges of being mothers, artists, professionals, students, and above all — individuals trying to make their way through an unprecedented time — over this pandemic year.
A Pandemic Year for Women: For those with a history of confinement, the lockdown was 'better' than what came before
Maumil Mehraj • 4 years agoThis essay is from our International Women’s Day 2021 series, about women who rose to the challenges of being mothers, artists, professionals, students, and above all — individuals trying to make their way through an unprecedented time — over this pandemic year.
A Pandemic Year for Women: Lessons for a rural healthcare startup in Bihar during the COVID-19 crisis
Snehal Joshi • 4 years agoThis essay is from our International Women’s Day 2021 series, about women who rose to the challenges of being mothers, artists, professionals, students, and above all — individuals trying to make their way through an unprecedented time — over this pandemic year.