Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic swept the world at the beginning of 2020. Countries launched into a state of emergency, involving lockdown and quarantine. When social distancing became the “new normal,” people were forced to stay in, working and communicating remotely at home. For many, an oppressive feeling of “being trapped” creates inertia, a strange lack of adequate energy to even move. Bodies no longer function in a social context. Participating in the Massive and Microscopic sense-making project (Markham & Harris) prompted me to engage in autoethnographic self-exploration of my own embodiment in relation to the pandemic, asking questions such as: How do we go about becoming reconnected again? How can we use movement and the body as a curriculum to learn and unlearn ourselves?
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