Stories

This collection of stories is for all impacted by COVID-19 and serves as an archive of the experiences shared. The stories collected in this project are always the work and property of the storyteller. See our Storyteller Bill of Rights for more information.


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Theme = Mental Health/Wellbeing

  • Written Story by

    Win Win Maw
    I am Win Win Maw, a dedicated individual who has called the United States home for more…
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    Torea Frey
    A mixed media art piece featuring torn paper with text fragments and smudged black…
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    Tonya Jones
    I’m a pragmatic person. I like to get to the root of why things are the way they…
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    Sierra
    This is what it feels to be archived. Tucked away in the dusty basement in a filing…
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    Anonymous
    I am a nonbinary physician of color. I actually worked for the state governmental COVID…
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    Shariff Abdullahaziz
    As the days went by, the symptoms of Covid-19 started to take their toll on my body. The…
  • Audio Story by

    Lukulambo
    I had Corona, for those of you who do not understand what Corona is.
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    Anonymous
    Socrates said, “The secret to change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the…
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    Rebel Fayola Black
    I haven’t gotten COVID….yet. But it has changed my life, for worse AND for better. I…
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    Rabia Jabarkhil
    The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020 led to significant changes in the …
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    Oluwatosin Oginni
    The experiences and impacts of COVID-19 pandemic are ones that I will not forget very…
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    Anonymous
    During the Covid-19 pandemic has been quite the rollercoaster ride. Not only do I have…
  • Written Story by

    Mohamad Kasim
    I am now 53 years old, and I am still working. I am Rohingya from Burma and have been…
  • Written Story by

    Max Mabry
    Hello,  My name is Max Mabry, and I am a recent graduate from the University of Oregon.…
  • Audio Story by

    Louisa D.
    English Translation  Emily: Hello. This is Speaker 1. Emily Duru. And I’m joined…
  • Audio Story by

    Kamali
    I want to say the badness of this disease called Corona brought lots of problems to many…
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    Judith
    I want to talk about Corona. It had never existed before and we don’t know what brought…
  • Written Story by

    J
    Summer 2021 was a time in the middle of the pandemic where many folks who could and …
  • Written Story by

    Hassan
    The emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic in late 2019 unleashed an unprecedented crisis…
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    Grace
    As I write I am realizing how hard I have tried to unconsciously forget any of those two…
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    Anonymous
    For me I was very scared because I was pregnant. I saw the way people were getting so…
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    Anonymous
    The first time I heard about Covid-19, I thought it was the same as any flu that will be…
  • Written Story by

    Emily D.
    The traffic has come to a screeching halt, as it so often does during heatwaves. Portland…
  • Written Story by

    Egide Dukuzumuremyi
    The pandemic has been a difficult, dramatic time for so many of us, for so many…
  • Written Story by

    Anonymous
    In the beginning of COVID, there were two things I feared: the disease itself and the…
  • Audio Story by

    Domatha
    We had a problem with COVID the whole year. We had sick people and the company was closed…
  • Artwork Story by

    Dani Garrett
    Illustration of a white presenting person with long dark brown hair wearing a black…
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    CJ Smith
    Outside of my windows live trees  They continue as  Seasons march on with vibrancy of…
  • Written Story by

    Ammy Omekara
    Covid19 has been on everyone’s mind since it began. It has halted activities, outings,…
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    Catherine
    As an immune compromised disabled person, the possibility of getting COVID-19 was …
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    Soup
    “After two years of near monastic devotion to safety, my girlfriend of eight years…
  • Written Story by

    Adriana
    My name is Adriana. I was an essential worker. I worked in healthcare as a medication…
  • Written Story by

    Gaby Gaeta
    ¿Alguna vez has sentido miedo de enfrentarte a lo desconocido?   Creo que la mayoría…
  • Artwork Story by

    Natalie V.
    A surreal painting depicts a room with disoriented perspectives. A figure lies on a bed…
  • Written Story by

    Morena Lopez
    Empecé como voluntaria en una organización sin fines de lucro y sin darme cuenta…
  • Written Story by

    Evangelina Gabriel
    Haciendo limpieza en casa y junto con mil documentos que intentó desechar descubro…
  • Written Story by

    Evy
    Muchos fuimos los afectados por la pandemia de Covid-19 pero en esta ocasión quiero…
  • Audio Story by

    Riziki
    We did not know where this disease came from. We never knew if we would die or not.
  • Written Story by

    Tim Murphy
    Sometimes Long Covid seems like it never ends, and maybe sometimes it doesn’t. Now…