Living with Pandemic Trauma: Seeking Potentials of Witnessing, Artistic Responses, Comics, Unicorns, and Queer Fashion

Abstract

This year, 2020, is a 15-year milestone for the Visual Culture & Gender journal. Volume 15 is published in a year like no other year any of us have experienced, no matter your age or location. The tri-fold pandemic of the coronavirus, racial injustice, and economic insecurities impacts everyone, world-wide. With 6,717,388 cases of coronavirus and 198,642 deaths as of September 15, 2020 in the United States and 29,270,879 cases and 924,774 deaths worldwide, many have experienced the virus, and lost loved ones.1 Together, masked up, we can protect each other and contain the spread of the airborne virus (Figures 1 and 2).