Listening for the Long Haul: Our LC oral history website is live

Promo image with yellow, aqua, and purple gradient background.  Large gradient text across the top says: "Listening for the Long Haul.” Below this is a black text bubble with yellow text that says: “Long COVID oral history” next to an illustration of a person lying in bed with headphones on. A black textbox with white text says: “100+ hours of interviews. Building a living history of Long COVID with stories from the people most impacted by the pandemic and its social & economic ripple effects. ListeningForTheLongHaul.org.”

Along the bottom edge are logos for Long COVID Justice and History Moves.

In honor of Long COVID Awareness Day, we’re thrilled to announce the launch of our Listening for the Long Haul (LFLH) website. LFLH features 100+ hours of interviews with longhaulers who are the most impacted by the pandemic and its social and economic ripple effects.

LFLH is a public history project grounded in disability justice, sharing over twenty oral history interviews with people living with Long COVID and Associated Conditions (LCAC). This site is a place to listen deeply, learn collectively, and honor lived experiences of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic

Coming soon: Virtual launch event featuring a panel of LFLH project organizers and participants. Sign up for our list to make sure you get the invite!

This project was created in partnership with History Moves, a public history project based at University of Illinois Chicago, with generous support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

“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!’

– Gabriel San Emeterio, Long COVID Justice Senior Fellow