As today turns into tomorrow, I hope that people don’t forget the women who died, and that these horrific events don’t simply fade into the background. Show up for your Asian, Indigenous, Black, and Latinx friends, show up for your community.

As we enter winter and prepare to say farewell to 2020, dg nanouk okpik’s “Warming” and Marge Piercy’s Woman on the Edge of Time offer hope and warning about the possibilities and perils of the present.

This past spring, I found myself watching and reading more to escape the daily stress of the pandemic, and oddly enough, I was engaging with horror and post-apocalyptic novels…I think that imagining what life might be like after the pandemic had passed and how we might survive actually feels hopeful to me.