Rosie / she / 21 / Madison, WI
“View From My Desk 99% of Nights”
Ish / she · they / 30 / Brussels, Belgium
“The sun shines right into our living room and I’m thankful for my lifelines – plants and plantlets, music and bread, and this wonderful book about birds. My hair will not collaborate and I worry all the time, but I also feel so lucky.”
Rah / they / 30 / Washington, DC
“Sitting on the floor of my office between Zoom calls.”
Elise Ammondson / they / 25 / Jamestown, NC
“I am currently sheltering in place at my parent’s house in North Carolina, so I have had to adapt in creating spaces that are my own. I am incredibly grateful to be in a place with access to sunshine and the woods. I am a performing artist who is deeply inspired by nature. I found this sweet little stage (there are benches arranged in stadium seating on the other side of the photo) in the middle of the woods that no one else seems to know about. I have now claimed the space as “my office” where I go nearly everyday to create. I dance, I juggle, I choreograph, I monologue, and I feel so lucky to have such a beautiful, forgiving audience–the trees!”
Maria / she / 22 / Chicago, IL
“In the bedroom of my apartment, where I’ve never spent this much time in in my life.”
Sarah Faxel / they · she / 27 / Birmingham, AL
“I’m a student at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. I’m standing with a flow cytometer, an awesome machine that allows us to count and identify different cells.”
Cecilia & Friday, Los Angeles, CA / Gilbert & Rose, Glasgow, UK / Queer Girl & Cyrus, Chico, CA / Gaelle, Vancouver, BC / B., Slovakia / Caitlin, Chandra & Conner, Vernon, BC / Gillian & Sally, Winchester, UK / Jane, Kira & Coral, Columbus, OH
“Group chat video call! We met in the comments section right here on AS, and made a WhatsApp group in August 2017 to watch movies together. Over the last 2.5 years we’ve had a wedding, an inter-chat dog adoption, meetups at A-Camp and on holiday, many surprise gifts and cards and cheese baskets, and now we’re keeping each other company through the quarantine. The best chosen family anyone could ask for ❤”
[Ed’s note: I’M NOT CRYING YOU’RE CRYING STOP CRYING STOP I AM NOT CRYING.]
Eddy and Brandi / they, she / 25, 24 / San Francisco, CA
“Top 3 Books We’ve Read Since Quarantine Began:
Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
Homie by Danez Smith
Save Yourself by Cameron Esposito”
Liz and Cam / Melbourne, Australia
“I’m Mexican-American. She’s Chinese-Malaysian. We’ve been living in Melbourne for less than a year. Since the coronavirus restrictions were put in place, each of us has been the only person the other is allowed to visit. We’re making the most out of that exemption.”
Dani Hagan Beckett / she / 34 / London, UK
“Being my best bisexual bombshell self #highfemmefromhome”
