âRight Now Feels So Long and Without Any End in Sightâ
More than 700 people have been keeping digital diaries as part of Pandemic Journaling Project. It may be the most complete record of our shifting moods in this isolating year.
Credit.Andrea D Aquino
Feb. 15, 2021
âRight now. Right now feels like every other minute of the day, of the week, of the month. Right now feels like forever. ⦠Right now feels so long and without any end in sight, without a change.â â Teacher and mother of four, in her 30s, from Massachusetts.
Those thoughts, typed into a digital journal on May 30, could stand as an anthem for this tragic pandemic year, a cry recognized around the world without explanation or context.
The public university system’s Board of Trustees voted unanimously Monday afternoon in favor of Fernando Delgado taking the reins at Lehman and Larry Johnson, Jr. taking over at Guttman Community College.
Remembering Distinguished Professor Leith Mullings, Pioneering Anthropologist Committed to Social Justice
The Graduate Center community is deeply saddened by the death of Distinguished Professor Emerita
Leith Mullings (Anthropology), whose scholarship focused on inequality, its consequences, and resistance to it in the United States and other regions of the world and who was committed to addressing timely social issues and “empowering communities through knowledge.” Mullings died on December 13th from cancer that was recently diagnosed.
Professor
Jeff Maskovsky (GC/Queens, Anthropology), executive officer of The Graduate Center’s Ph.D. Program in Anthropology called Mullings, who retired in 2016, “irreplaceable.”
“It was a deep honor to have worked with Leith, and her death is a heartbreaking loss to The Graduate Center, the discipline of anthropology, our program, and to me personally,” he said. “Leith was a pioneer in Black feminist studies in anthro