Category: Pandemic

About the Pandemic, c. March 2020 to whenever

Pandemic

Sad

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date November 25, 2020

Our only option is to let the sadness seep in.

“So Long and Thanks for Nothing” in Evergreen Review

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date September 1, 2020

Tell people that “Mother Earth” is wounded and needs their help, and wallets open. Tell them that the problem with the environment is a result of multiple capitalist systems crashing and burning at once, and eyes glaze over.

Animals Pandemic

Piglet

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date August 26, 2020

Excerpt: I did a double take and checked: yes, a pig.

Is that a small village or just a really big pig?

Chicago Chronicles Pandemic

I’m Now on Instagram

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date August 24, 2020

Pandemic

A Mask Is A Paper Bag for Your Eggs

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date July 30, 2020

Insert your nightmare here, and understand that it’s quite likely to happen.

Geopoliticus Child Watching the Birth of the New Man.jpg

Pandemic

Shame

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date July 28, 2020

Pandemic

Good

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date April 24, 2020

I am good; I will make the unmasked squirm and suffer in their shame.

Pandemic

Person

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date April 16, 2020

A person is a universe.

Pandemic

Breath

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date April 15, 2020

a lovely man with silver flecks in his hair in a dun brown leather jacket.

Pandemic

Spawn

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date April 15, 2020

all the marvels of twenty-first century science reduced to a bizarrely medieval bit of wishful thinking.