My pandemic reading list

I’ve spent the past 12 weeks riding the highs and lows of being isolated at home, unable to go into the hospital or clinic. I’ve volunteered my time delivering food to families and elders in the housing projects; I’ve also organized self-care and mental health activities for fellow students. I do my school work– sometimes with great difficulty, depending on the week and the day; the unfolding, no-longer ignore-able injustice in my community and our nation is so traumatic and thus hard to bear some days. Feeling hopelessness or grief easily derails my “productivity.” I have no reading list, no summary in bullet points, no cleanly organized cross-section of information through which this time can be understood.