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A COVID Christmas in Johannesburg: An unexpected 'celebration' in unprecedented times
Srila Roy •An 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 •This 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 •This 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 •This 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 •This 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 •This 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 •This 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 •This 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 •This 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 •This 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.