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Topic: Unheard Voices Of The Pandemic

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

How COVID-19 affects the incarcerated

Shearod McFarland, Mateo Hoke