Community Within Covid19

Description: August "Auggie" is my brother! He is a 26-year-old guy from Oakland, California. He identifies himself as Latino and white as well as middle class. He has long curly hair and a bushy beard that he has been cultivating for the lockdown. He was very nice and agreed to be interviewed on zoom to help out his little sister. The bolded text is my dialogue and everything else is the interviewee's. What does community mean to you? Great question! Hmmm. I’ve actually been thinking a lot about this on my own lately. I would say that community exists in spaces that you feel nurtured in. Whether that be family, fellow laborers, or the same identity marker. [Identity markers?] Yeah, like ethnicity, class, regional spaces. Just anywhere that feels restorative.  Where did you find community during quarantine?/Did you find it at all? Yeah! So I work for the San Francisco Transportation Department and we’ve been online for a full year with at least another half a year expect...

Description: Ms. Judy is a 67-year-old white woman from Kirksville, Missouri. She is of slight build with pretty brown and heathered gray hair. She considers herself to be middle class. I approached her at the Hyvee cafeteria and asked if she would like to be interviewed for a school project. The bolded text is my dialogue and everything else is the interviewee's.  What does community mean to you?  Where you live and the people you love.  Where did you find community during quarantine?/Did you find it at all? I don’t have any family in town and I never married, so my community has always been my girlfriends and some of their husbands. I don’t like all of their husbands though. [How did things change with them once all the precautions were put into place? Or did things not really change?] They did. We used to all come into the cafeteria and eat lunch most days a week. Now we can’t and the few times we have tried I can’t really enjoy myself with all the masks on and new rul...