All posts by Krista Collier-Jarvis
We can turn to popular culture for lessons about how to live with COVID-19 as endemic
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. In 2021, conversations began on whether the COVID-19 pandemic will, or even can, end. As a literary and cultural theorist, I started looking for shifts in stories about pandemics and contagion. It turns out that several stories also…
Like the truck-machines in ‘Mad Max,’ the ‘freedom convoy’ relies on access to fuel
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. The media has been inundated by images of the ‘freedom convoy’ that began converging on Ottawa on Jan. 28. The convoy reflects our continued inability to find a middle ground when it comes to debates surrounding COVID-19 mandates…