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Woman in office applying make-up using laptop monitor as mirror (Getty Images)

Is Zoom making us vain?

Luke Fernandez, Susan J. Matt
Photo collage pertaining to health, exercise, doctors and COVID-19 (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The new healthy me gets a COVID scare

D. Watkins
Opioid epidemic health danger and medical crisis with a prescription painkiller addiction concept as a group of pills devastating a patient (Getty Images)

Americans don't get the social contract

Jack Shuler
Basketball Court (Getty Images)

They arrested me for playing basketball

Darryl Robertson
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Cleaning supplies and medical face masks (Illustration by Ilana Lidagoster/Salon)

"We're in survival mode"

Nina Gonzalez, Ela Banerjee
Medical face mask surrounded by hospital bills (Illustration by Ilana Lidagoster/Salon)

"How are we going to pay these bills?"

Soledad Castillo, Ela Banerjee
A protester holds up their homemade sign that says, "We Will NEVER Stop Fighting for BLACK Women" with a picture of the black power fist on the sign during a protest at Trump Tower. This was part of the Black Womxn's Empowerment March that started at Trump Tower and marched to Gracie Mansion. (Ira L. Black/Corbis via Getty Images)

I'm a Black woman, not a woman of color

Takirra Winfield Dixon
Egg slicer with egg in it, sliced and whole peeled boiled eggs on a different saucers on a wooden bamboo surface at selective focus (Getty Images)

Sorry, Alton Brown; I love my unitaskers

Mary Elizabeth Williams
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The Last Story Of Mina Lee by Nancy Jooyoun Kim (Photo illustration by Salon/ Portrait and cover provided courtesy of publicist)

I felt responsible for my mother's life

Nancy Jooyoun Kim
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo gives his a press briefing about the coronavirus crisis on April 17, 2020 in Albany, New York | Photo of writer as a child with her father (Photo illustration by Salon/family photo courtesy of author/Getty Images)

Watching Cuomo, grieving my father

Gina Gionfriddo
Empty prison hallway (Getty Images)

COVID-19's threat to aging prisoners

Todd Oppenheim
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
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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.
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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
Side view of girl wearing helmet while standing on skateboard in garage (Getty Images)

Going back to school? Ditch gender norms

Lisa Selin Davis
Rules For Being Dead by Kim Powers (Blair Publishing/George Paul/Salon)

Solving the mystery of my mother's death

Kim Powers
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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
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