From the beginning of March 2020 through to the present we have asked different artists and thinkers to respond to issues that were being unearthed as Covid-19 took its toll on our communities. Each writer was asked to respond to a simple brief that in some way related to their lived experience, providing the opportunity to open up these issues, to better understand what we could and should have in common.
*Content note: descriptions of transphobic violence, police violence and autistic meltdown.*
"I’m in the Headmaster’s office, reading a book. My body is on fire. I’m seven, or ten, or twelve. This is my punishment for fighting, again. I have to sit here by myself each breaktime and lunchtime for a week. I’m forbidden from playing outside, but that’s more relief than punishment. It’s quiet here, and I can read without having to worry about other people. The world is reduced to a tiny room, little enough input for my senses to cope."
