Joseph Josué Mora — “I am focusing on the process of gaining resilience and overcoming these times of uncertainty as an informed, undocumented family member. Most undocumented people live with uncertainty in our jobs, as students, and as normal people being targeted anywhere in the US, but despite all this, the undocumented community has grown out of the shadows and continues to support their families, culture, and this country. These drawings represent that strength to move forward. I hope that people find that same strength during these uncertain times that will fade.”

For the first Sunday edition of Quarantine Times, native Chicagoan and independent cultural producer Felicia Holman shares her 'digital mind map' of some of the nuanced resources fundamental to her own self and community care practices.

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Live-streaming online is a phenomenon developed by the early architects of the internet.
Its popularity soared, especially now, amongst gamers, due to increased bandwidth.
But it’s for everyone now, even non-gamers and Luddites alike.
It’s exactly like Zoom but you are not at your job or around your coworkers.

I have made books and booklets and zines for over thirty years, and I felt that making another publication should my immediate response to the crisis. I had started an essay about paper waste in publishing with Brett Bloom, my collaborator in the group Temporary Services. But that was just one project, and I like to have many things in the oven at the same time. The name Quaranzine came to mind, which is an idea that many other publishing minds surely had simultaneously. I’m against competition. We can all call our thing a Quaranzine. Sometimes the best title is the best title. I just knew I wanted to make something and hopefully collaborate with others too. Everyone was about to go real stir crazy real fast, but not everyone has the means to print something at home. So, on March 15th, using my Public Collectors project name, I published the first issue of Quaranzine.

It is easy to see these quarantine times in terms of passivity; many of us are feeling restricted, worried, isolated. I find myself returning to a sports metaphor that zoomed past me in the blur of constant news consumption that I have been battling these past days.