COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020---Influence

Overview "In 2009, I chose to study homelessness as part of an assignment for my Media Ethic's course at Emerson College. For the next five years, I continued to explore the political, social, and economic challenges that undermined social progress in addressing homelessness in the United States. As of 2020, the challenge of reducing homelessness in the United States has not been met and experts fear that the Covid-19 pandemic will accelerate the existing crisis of homelessness in America." --...

Overview "Plague Days & River Roads follows the protagonist, college junior Liv Ford, as she returns to her hometown in order to understand how and why her friend Juniper died—and whether the mystery of who Juniper's mother was related to her death. As she dives deeper into her memories with Juniper, Liv begins to piece together the shards of her eccentric family through her relationships with her own mother and with Juniper's father and brother during August 2020. The novel is a musing on grief,...

Overview "In the year since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, drag artists in Boston and across the country have continually adapted their craft to new digital mediums, even as the queer spaces in which they once performed and earned their living close under the economic pressures of the time. 'Toxic Nostalgia' takes place in this liminal space between an idealized pre-pandemic past and an uncertain future. Through elements of documentary, drag, one-woman show and cabaret, the film guides...