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Collected Item: “Covid, Gender Reveals, and Disastrous Wildfire”

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Covid, Gender Reveals, and Disastrous Wildfire

What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?

Screenshot

Tell us a story; share your experience. Describe what the object or story you've uploaded says about the pandemic, and/or why what you've submitted is important to you.

I’m currently pregnant during the Covid-19 crisis and I’ve noticed a huge uptick in elaborate gender reveals among other pregnant moms. This is my third child and I just realized after reading this article that the pandemic has made rituals such as this one even more important to our mental health and social connections.

Use one-word hashtags (separated by commas) to describe your story. For example: Where did it originate? How does this object make you feel? How does this object relate to the pandemic?

#genderreveal, #genderrevealparty, #wildfire, #pregnancy, #Yucaipa, #California

Enter a URL associated with this object, if relevant.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-09-10/pandemic-gender-reveals-hotter-than-ever-el-dorado-fire

Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)

I created the screenshot

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2020-09-10
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