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Collected Item: “Pandemic Street Art: teenage tagger made to apologize and cleanup”

Give your story a title.

Pandemic Street Art: teenage tagger made to apologize and cleanup

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

web article, 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.

New York teen tags the streets in "response to multiple stressors. Quarantining boredom. Family problems. Feeling stuck since graduating high school and not yet finding a job or college that fit."

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?

ASU, HST580, pandemic street art, graffiti, emotion, teenager, stress, boredom, conflict, crime

Enter a URL associated with this object, if relevant.

https://www.westsiderag.com/2021/04/11/tagger-who-wrote-done-throughout-the-uws-volunteers-to-clean-up-graffiti-im-very-sorry

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

Joy Bergmann

Give this story a date.

2021-04-11
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