Collected Item: “Election Night 2020”
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Election Night 2020
What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?
Poem
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.
This poem sits at the nexus of pandemic life and political desperation. My wife lost multiple elderly family members to COVID because her parents believed the rhetoric spread by Donald Trump and those like him. Five years of dealing with racist, sexist, homophobic and transphobic bigotry being the political norm, and eight months of a pandemic in the heart of one of the largest science denying states in the country led to this moment of desperation, where all I could do was blindly bake and write to get the nervous energy out.
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anxiety, election, Louisiana, desperation, politicization, mentalillness, grief
Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)
Dre Tarleton
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2020-11-03