This is an autoethnographic visual essay in collaboration with Hira Sheikh. It is currently under review for the Feral Feminisms (an open access feminist journal).
Humans are a destructive force on this planet: exclusive, authoritarian, and up to man’s whimsy. Glimpses of human vulnerability exist in the form of environmental agents, such as allergens, but they have not had a considerable impact on human living. In this piece, the COVID-19 virus is juxtaposed with allergens where the virus has had consequences beyond human life. The virus is an invisible threat: looming between touch, surfaces and breath. This autoethnographic photo essay explores the ways the virus hijacked human interaction with their environment – a shift that the discourse on Anthropocene has been trying to inspire.