Listening for the Long Haul is an oral history project created by Strategies for High Impact in partnership with History Moves at University of Illinois-Chicago, which received a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Together, we are training and supporting COVID-19 longhaulers to interview and narrate their own experiences. We will then create digital humanities resources for distributing those stories and bringing about narrative change.
“Listening for the Long Haul is a truly collaborative project, in which chronically ill and disabled people work together to tell our stories, with full control over our narratives and how they’re presented. It’s in the truest spirit of disability justice: ‘Nothing about us without us!’ “
— S4HI/Long COVID Justice Senior Fellow Gabriel San Emeterio
Learn more in this interview with Dr. Jennie Briar, our collaborator at UIC:
“Listening for the Long Haul: A Living History of Long COVID,” the Humanities Without Walls Grand Research Challenge-funded project, is producing a multifaceted community-centered history of Long COVID. They ask how public history can be useful in producing policies that are more responsive to individual and community needs in the face of pandemics and mass-disabling events, and in the process make us all healthier and more resilient.