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Be The Friend You Wish You Had Post-Pandemic

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Glasses-Wearers: We Found Face Masks That Won’t Fog You Up

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I’m Not Sure I’m The Same Person I Was Before The Pan...

I saw the light – hovering above my balcony late one night last November – and now I can’t unsee it. It was the first autumn lockdown. The one that p

by Vicky Spratt

I Dropped Veganism In The Pandemic & I Won’t Go Back

It was a fried egg that got me in the end. I’d been cooking and eating as a vegan for five years or so until about four months into the pandemic. I’d e

by Sadhbh O'Sullivan

How The Hell Do You Talk To Your Vaccine-Hesitant Friends?

After a long 15 months of virus fears, yoyo-ing lockdowns and the race to develop effective treatments, COVID-19 vaccine rollouts are well underway. So far

by Lydia Morrish

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How Will Rising COVID Cases Impact The Olympics?

The summer 2021 Olympic games will kick off in just over two weeks, but as the coronavirus pandemic continues, some are wondering how rising cases in the a

by Erin Corbett

How The Pandemic Turned Me Into A Superstitious Person

It all started with one magpie. I’ve never been particularly superstitious but not too long ago, on a particularly lacklustre Tuesday morning walk around

by Juliana Piskorz

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Self-Isolating Students Face An End-Of-Term Nightmare

University of Manchester student Cerys Jones lives in a house of 10 students and was supposed to be moving out tomorrow. Instead, as another academic year

Even If You Had Asymptomatic COVID, You Might Feel Symptoms Month...

More than a year into the coronavirus pandemic, researchers have found that hundreds of thousands of people in America are seeking medical attention for po

by Erin Corbett

A Gathering Of Voices: LGBTQ+ Activists Talk About Pandemics Past...

Over half of the population of the United States and almost half of the UK population has received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. Case counts and

by Dalí Adekunle

Apparently, Some Anti-Vaxxers Think The COVID Vaccine Makes You&#...

Anti-vaxxers have found yet another conspiracy theory to cling to in their fight to remain unvaccinated against the deadly coronavirus. Since the vaccines

by Erin Corbett

We’re Finally Getting Names For The COVID Variants — Here&#...

On Monday, the World Health Organisation announced that the COVID-19 variants will officially receive “easy-to-pronounce,” “non-stigmatis

The Kardashian-West Household Was A COVID Hotspot, But Not For Th...

The latest episode of Keeping Up with the Kardashians was very enlightening, giving us our first Kanye West cameo of the season as well as an important upd

by Ineye Komonibo

It’s Not Just You: COVID Brain Fog Can Linger For Months

In mid-November 2020, Pamela Furr was cutting onions and noticed no tears were coming to her eyes. She couldn’t smell them, she realised. She got a COVID

by Molly Longman

Vaccinated People Who Had COVID-19 May Be Immune For A Very Long ...

The COVID-19 vaccines have allowed many of us to take a collective sigh of relief. We can finally begin to get back to pre-pandemic activities with confide

by Elizabeth Gulino

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Kim Kardashian Reveals That Her Son Saint Also Tested Positive Fo...

Season 18 of Keeping Up with the Kardashians was notably tumultuous, marked by a troubling new antagonist for the reality family to take on: COVID-19. The

by Ineye Komonibo

Inside The Secret World Of Canada’s Underground Pandemic Be...

On an autumn day last year, Amy* walked over to her favourite nail salon in her Toronto neighbourhood. The lights were off, the curtains drawn, the securit

by Katherine Singh

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After A Year Of Excess, I Finally Realised How Badly I Need Moder...

When I think of the word ‘moderation‘ I am reminded of a quote from Peep Show. “Four naan, Jeremy? Four? That’s insane,” exclaims

by Juliana Piskorz

It’s Never Too Late To Come Out – Lockdown Showed Me That

When I think about my own experiences of coming out, there’s one occasion I really remember. Perched on a grassy verge outside our college at the age of

by Charlotte Moore

I Couldn’t Commit To Therapy — & Then The Pandemic Happened

“Hello, Lauren.” The woman’s voice coming out of my phone was palpably soothing, but I still cringed listening to it. My inner cynic wondered if her

by Lauren Pinnington

What If The New Dream Job Is No Job At All?

Laura* had been a fully employed member of the workforce since 1985, and at her most recent job as an office administrator since 1999. In August of 2020, h

by Olivia Harrison

I Inhabit An In-Between Place: Exhausted But Unable To Sleep, Tir...

The days of the week are like an extremely bad bag of pick ‘n’ mix. Each one turning out to be the experience of a new kind of tiredness: exhau

by Vicky Spratt

Is 25 The Worst Age To Be During The Pandemic? A Very Serious Inv...

When I was 15, I thought that by the time I turned 25 I’d be a successful, confident, grown adult. I pictured myself traveling the world; I also figured

by Elizabeth Gulino

These Intimate Photos Offer A Window Into Lives Of 8 Trans People...

The word complicated doesn’t begin to sum up the experience of the past 14-plus months. It’s impossible to understate the effect COVID-19 has had on us

Young Indian Women Are Using Instagram To Tell The World How Bad ...

“I am feeling anxious,” 30-year-old Mankiran Dhillon, who lives with her parents in Delhi, tells Refinery29. “Nobody was ready for this.

by Minreet Kaur

Feeling Burnt Out? Maybe It’s Because You Haven’t Tak...

For most of the pandemic, Frankie, a social worker, took barely a single day off work. She had her usual weekends and national holidays, but she didn’t u

by Molly Longman

The Anatomy Of The Perfect Post-Vaccine Outfit

On Tuesday, the United States’ CDC announced that fully vaccinated people can go without a mask when in small groups and outdoors, which Mike Saag, M

6 People On Giving Up Sex Until The Pandemic Is Over (& Maybe Lon...

Don’t Worry: Here’s How To Manage All Your Vaccine Side Effects

When I got my first shot of the COVID-19 vaccine, I was stoked. I tried to soak everything in: the lyrics of the ‘80s song playing over the loudspeaker a

by Molly Longman

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