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Life Stories (page 13)

The Life Stories section features insightful commentary and essays about the human experience from Salon.

A smart phone with a camera mounted on a tripod, with a medical face mask hanging off of it. (Illustration by Ilana Lidagoster)

Sex work without contact in the pandemic

Hunter R., Andrea Quijada
Illustration (Illustration by Ilana Lidagoster/Salon)

Reading his way through the pandemic

Yusufu Mosley, Audrey Petty
Classroom whiteboard with a quote from Audre Lorde written on it (Getty Images/Salon)

The awakening of the American white mind

Randall Horton
A pair of maracas and a medical face mask, placed on a window sill (Illustration by Ilana Lidagoster/Salon)

"I feel we have no voice"

Anastasia Bravo, Dao X. Tran
Several Philadelphia police officers stroll through the West Philadelphia neighborhood destroyed by the bombing of the MOVE headquarters. The police and radical African American organization MOVE faced off, until the police bombed the group's house. (Getty Images)

Apologies for MOVE bombing aren't enough

Mike Africa Jr.
Kanye West attends the 2020 Vanity Fair Oscar Party at Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on February 09, 2020 in Beverly Hills, California. (Taylor Hill/FilmMagic)

Kanye West, bipolar disorder and me

Darryl Robertson
An empty classroom (Getty/ martinedoucet)

I'm OK with my kids "falling behind"

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Rules For Being Dead by Kim Powers (Blair Publishing/George Paul/Salon)

Solving the mystery of my mother's death

Kim Powers
A sign is seen on a barrier at an entrance to the so-called "Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone" on June 10, 2020 in Seattle, Washington. The zone includes the blocks surrounding the Seattle Police Departments East Precinct, which was the site of violent clashes with Black Lives Matter protesters, who have continued to demonstrate in the wake of George Floyd's death. (David Ryder/Getty Images)

The collapse of Seattle's CHOP/CHAZ

Sean Edwards, Gabe Fuente
House plants, with a medical mask hanging off the stem (Illustration by Ilana Lidagoster/Salon)

After prison, graduating into a pandemic

Hanima Eugene, Ela Banerjee, Cliff Mayotte
Cocktails at the bar (Getty Images)

I’m not going back to work as a server

Nikki Ervice
A diploma scroll and graduation cap with a medical mask hooked around the top button (Illustration by Ilana Lidagoster/Salon)

A refugee's graduation into uncertainty

Claudine Katete, Katrina Powell
Police officers breaking down doors (Getty Images)

When the cops break down your door

D. Watkins
Fruit basketed in a medical mask on the ground by the border wall (Illustration by Ilana Lidagoster/Salon)

Sick with COVID-19 in ICE detention

Raul Luna Gonzalez, Gabriel Thompson
Rear view of woman in front of house (Getty Images)

Alzheimer's in the era of COVID-19

Mary Elizabeth Williams
A face mask chessboard, and prison bars (Illustration by Ilana Lidagoster/Salon)

How COVID-19 affects the incarcerated

Shearod McFarland, Mateo Hoke
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What "from the hood to the holler" means

Minda Honey
Sesame Street (Warner Media/CNN)

Kids need to keep learning about racism

Danni Quintos
Demonstrators march as part of a Juneteenth Celebration on June 19, 2020 in Baltimore, Maryland. Juneteenth commemorates June 19, 1865, when a Union general read orders in Galveston, Texas stating all enslaved people in Texas were free according to federal law. (J. Countess/Getty Images)

Fighting two viruses: COVID-19 & racism

Takirra Winfield Dixon
A demonstrator raises his fist at a gathering to celebrate Juneteenth at the 16th street "Black Lives Matter Plaza" near the White House. The US marks the end of slavery by celebrating Juneteenth, with the annual unofficial holiday taking on renewed significance as millions of Americans confront the nation's living legacy of racial injustice. (Probal Rashid/LightRocket via Getty Images)

The long road to justice

Mitchell L.H. Douglas
Dwight Watkins feeding his daughter (Photo provided by Dwight Watkins)

What I'm celebrating this Father's Day

D. Watkins
Boy Watching Father Shaving (Getty Images)

Lessons from teaching my son to shave

John Powers
Medical workers walk outside a special coronavirus area at Maimonides Medical Center on May 26, 2020 in the Borough Park neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough of New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

I'm your doctor. Hear me on COVID

Chaya Bhuvaneswar
Group of friends enjoying the Pride Parade (Getty Images)

The queering of friendship  

Mia Birdsong
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