Browse Items (7 total)

A Message to an essential worker, Ifedayo Kehinde, Ifedayo Kehinde, 2020

This picture was a WhatsApp message I sent to my friend, who is a nurse. I became worried for her when the pandemic became full-blown in the United…

Tags: Conversation, COVID-19 Cases, Essential Workers, Healthcare, Healthcare Workers, Nurse, SMS

Ifedayo Kehinde, Oral History Interview with Albert A Kabura, Ifedayo Kehinde, May 3, 2021

The initiative by oral historians to document our COVID 19 experiences in the past year is ingenious and sacrosanct. The COVID MKE archive, when fully…

Tags: Audio, Community, Conversation, Face Mask, Federal Government, Home & Family Life, International, Interview, Mental Health, Oral History, Quarantine, Social Distance, Technology, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

WhatsApp group message, Ifedayo Kehinde, Ifedayo Kehinde, 2020

This image is one of the multiple messages received during the COVID lockdown. Some of my friends created the WhatsApp group with the sole aim of…

Tags: Conversation, COVID-19 Cases, Meme, News Article, News Broadcast, Quarantine, SMS, Social Media, Technology, Virtual Gathering

A vote to end COVID-19, Ifedayo Kehinde, Ifedayo Kehinde, 2020

While the pandemic was raging, there were other defining occurrences during the COVID-19 lockdown. The lockdown did not stop politicians from…

Tags: Conversation, Federal Government, Politics, Sticker, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Vote, Voting

u/saazann, So What Exactly is Going on? Reddit thread, May 18, 2020

This is a reddit thread of Milwaukeeans explaining what is happening in the city regarding the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruling of the safer-at-home…

Tags: Community, Conversation

Tom Barrett
, Comments Under Mayor Tom Barrett's Tweet, May 13, 2020

These are comments from Milwaukeeans on Mayor Tom Barrett's regarding the continuance of the public health order issued on March 25, 2020. The…

Tags: Conversation, Municipal Government, Politics, Tweet

Cary Costello, Conversation with an Uber driver, March 12, 2020

This was a little spontaneous local ethnography in which I encountered conspiracy theories about COVID-19.

Tags: Conversation, Politics, Transportation