Making Kin in a Pandemocene

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Research Article| April 01 2022 Making Kin in a Pandemocene: An Account of/for Queer Survival Amelia Walker Amelia Walker Author’s email: poetryisdangerous@gmail.com Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of Autoethnography (2022) 3 (2): 240–244. https://doi.org/10.1525/joae.2022.3.2.240 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Amelia Walker; Making Kin in a Pandemocene: An Account of/for Queer Survival. Journal of Autoethnography 1 April 2022; 3 (2): 240–244. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/joae.2022.3.2.240 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of Autoethnography Search It was one of those mornings when the air itself glows. I’d risen to walk as the sun rose. It seemed safest with most of the neighborhood sleeping. The quiet solitude also helped soothe the anxieties. It was April 2020. Covid-19 had officially reached pandemic status. Days earlier, I’d confronted supermarket shelves empty of milk, rice, cereal, toilet paper, and—most worrisome, given the context—disinfectant. Panic buyers had cleared the lot. Additionally, I had personal worries. My girlfriend, a serious asthmatic, was strictly self-isolating, refusing face-to-face contact, even with me. It was a new relationship; we lived apart. She was so stressed with day-to-day challenges, even phone calls were a stretch. Or so she claimed. I sensed more at play. Things were tricky with family, too. Although I’ve consistently identified as bisexual and queer since my teens, my brother-in-law had until then only seen me with male partners and responded poorly... You do not currently have access to this content.