Ellen Samuels is a UW-Madison professor in the English and Gender & Women Studies departments and is a founding member of the UW Disability Studies Initiative(@UWDisStudies). She lives with a disability that makes her days unpredictable and often keeps her housebound, sometimes bed-bound. When the pandemic hit, she saw that we were all facing challenges new to us, but familiar to her–about how to survive staying in, and social distancing. Early in the pandemic she wrote a piece called Ten Tips from a Chronically Ill Person for Surviving Social Distancing, and posted it on Medium, where it was shared widely. Now that we’re entering another stage of lock down, the piece is seeing a revival, so I thought I’d check in with Ellen about her tips for getting through these strange and difficult days.

 

 

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