The COVID-19 Memorial Project

Immediate Actions To Take:

• Join and support local mutual aid organizations — DC folks can start here
• Call your Reps to pass the Build Back Better Act

Organizations to Support + Follow:

• Center for Popular Democracy
• Database of Localized Resources During COVID-19 Outbreak
• DC Mutual Aid Network
• District Alliance for Safe Housing
• Healers for Liberation Network
• Mutual Aid Disaster Relief
• Mutual Aid Hub
• Working Families Party

Educate Yourself + Keep Showing Up:

• Articles —
• Cooperatives Cooperate to Protect Home Health Aides with Masks — Karen Kahn via Fifty by Fifty
• Coronavirus: How These Disabled Activists Are Taking Matters Into Their Own (Sanitized) Hands — Matthew Green via KQED
• COVID-19 response: What about us? — Robert Barton via Medium
• Demands from Grassroots Organizers Concerning COVID-19 — Kelly Hayes via Transformative Spaces
• Feeling Powerless About Coronavirus? Join a Mutual Aid Network. — Charlie Warzel via NYTimes
• Grief Belongs in Social Movements. Can We Embrace It? — Malkia Devich-Cyril via In These Times
• How To Ask If Everything is OK When It's Clearly Not — Anna Goldfarb via NYTimes
• How to Share Space Again — T. Cole Rachel via departures
• How we relate: patterns of extractive capitalism in our personal relationships, and what skin and mitochondria can teach us about interdependence and liberations — Abigail Rose Clarke via Medium
• In 1918 and 2020, race colors America’s response to epidemics — Soraya Nadia McDonald via Andscape
• Let This Radicalize You: A COVID Memorial Mixtape — Kelly Hayes via Transformative Spaces
• No New Normal: Who Will We Be After This Nightmare is Over? — Kim Kelly via Bitch Media
• Omicron Is Thriving Off America’s Obsession With Work — Emily L. Hauser via DAME
• Poems for People Who Aren’t Ready To Move On — Kelly Hayes via Transformative Spaces
• ‘Self-Care’ Isn’t the Fix for Late-Pandemic Malaise — Jamil Zaki via The Atlantic
• Stop Blaming Black People for Dying of the Coronavirus — Ibram X. Kendi via The Atlantic
• The Coronavirus Is Here Forever. This Is How We Live With It. — Sarah Zhang via The Atlantic
• 'The Impossible Has Already Happened': What Coronavirus Can Teach Us About Hope — Rebecca Solnit via The Guardian
• The Mutual Aid Mourning and Healing Project — Kelly Hayes via Transformative Spaces
• The Octavia Butler Novel for Our Times — Lovia Gyarkye via The Atlantic
• The Public Body: How capitalism made the world sick. — Sarah Jones via The Nation
• There Is Nothing Normal about One Million People Dead from COVID — Steven W. Thrasher via Scientific American
• Think This Pandemic is Bad? We Have Another Crisis Coming — Rhiana Gunn-Wright via NYTimes
• Unmasked: Impacts of Pandemic Policing — Pascal Emmer, Woods Ervin, Derecka Purnell, Andrea J. Ritchie, and Tiffany Wang via Community Resource Hub
• We’re Entering the Control Phase of the Pandemic — Katherine J. Wu via The Atlantic
• What if we … Don’t return to School as Usual  by National Equity Project — Hugh Vasquez via Medium
• Where Do We Go From Here? Naomi Klein, Astra Taylor & Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor — Haymarket Books
• You Are Not Entitled To Our Deaths: COVID, Abled Supremacy & Interdependence — Mia Mingus via Leaving Evidence

• Books —
• A Paradise Built in Hell — Rebecca Solnit
• Alone Together: Love, Grief, and Comfort in the Time of COVID-19 — Jennifer Haupt
• Cannibal Capitalism: How our System is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet – and What We Can Do About It — Nancy Fraser
• Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency — Andreas Malm
• COVID-19: The Pandemic That Never Should Have Happened and How to Stop the Next One — Debora Mackenzie
• Crippled: Austerity and the Demonization of Disabled People — Frances Ryan
• Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities — Rebecca Solnit
• How We Live Now: Scenes from the Pandemic — Bill Hayes
• Intimations — Zadie Smith
• Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next) — Dean Spade
• Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World’s Economy — Adam Tooze
• Struggle Makes Us Human — Frank Barat and Vijay Prashad
• The Care Manifesto: The Politics of Interdependence — The Care Collective
• The Conquest of Bread — Peter Kropoktkin
• The Decameron — Giovanni Boccacio
• The Monster Enters: COVID-19, Avian Flu, and the Plagues of Capitalism — Mike Davis
• The Plague — Albert Camus
• The Politics of Care: From COVID-19 to Black Lives Matter — edited by Boston Review
• The Premonition: A Pandemic Story — Michael Lewis
• The Revenge of the Real Politics for a Post-Pandemic World — Benjamin Bratton
• There Is No Outside: Covid-19 Dispatches — edited by Jessie Kindig, Mark Krotov, and Marco Roth
• Thinking in a Pandemic: The Crisis of Science and Policy in the Age of COVID-19 — edited by Boston Review
• Under the Blacklight: The Intersectional Vulnerabilities that the Twin Pandemics Lay Bare — Kimberlé Crenshaw and Daniel HoSang
• Unheard Voices of the Pandemic: Narratives from the First Year of COVID-19 — Dao X. Tran
• We Still Here: Pandemic, Policing, Protest, & Possibility — Marc Lamont Hill

• Videos —
• COVID-19, Decarceration, and Abolition: An Evening with Ruth Wilson Gilmore — YouTube
• COVID Is Creating a Deadly Mental Health Crisis in America — VICE News
• Health Autonomy Beyond the Pandemic: Webinar — Grassroots Economic Organizing
• Remaking Schools in the Time of Coronavirus — YouTube
• The New Authoritarians and Covid-19 — YouTube
• The Path Forward: Pandemic Policing or Protection — YouTube
• “The Sisterhood.” Why Filipino nurses have been disproportionately affected by the coronavirus pandemic. — The Experiment
• Voices from the Front Line: Health Care Workers and the Fight Against Covid — YouTube

NOTE: Our focus areas are informed by community input. If there is an issue you'd like to see included or would like to share input, please email us at community@the-outrage.com with questions, comments, or concerns on our 2022 focus areas. We'd love to hear from you. 

This is an incomplete and growing list. Last updated March 9, 2022.