lockdown anniversary
![Why messy afterparties feel like resistance to a work-obsessed society](https://gal-dem.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Illustration-01-1.png)
Why messy afterparties feel like resistance to a work-obsessed society
Ruchira Sharma
![Queeries: what’s with all this post-lockdown anxiety?](https://gal-dem.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Queeries_10.jpg)
Queeries: what’s with all this post-lockdown anxiety?
Aisha Mirza
![Over the last year in lockdown, smell and nostalgia are more connected than ever](https://gal-dem.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/galdemsmellheader-1.jpg)
Over the last year in lockdown, smell and nostalgia are more connected than ever
Eilidh Akilade
![Relearning to speak to my elders in lockdown](https://gal-dem.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/talking-to-elders.png)
Relearning to speak to my elders in lockdown
Nali Simukulwa
![Opera helped me process my father’s death during the pandemic](https://gal-dem.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/IMG_0727.jpg)
Opera helped me process my father’s death during the pandemic
Ella Alalade
![A joyful celebration of Britain’s Chinese takeaways](https://gal-dem.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-24-at-19.18.36.png)
A joyful celebration of Britain’s Chinese takeaways
Angela Hui
![‘It’s impossible to step back’ – meet the mutual aid volunteers who persisted in the pandemic](https://gal-dem.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/mutualaid_920x550.png)
‘It’s impossible to step back’ – meet the mutual aid volunteers who persisted in the pandemic
Priyankaa Joshi
![Crochet, pickles, hula hooping – are we keeping up the lockdown hobbies once we’re allowed outside?](https://gal-dem.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Untitled-design-3.jpg)
Crochet, pickles, hula hooping – are we keeping up the lockdown hobbies once we’re allowed outside?
Zainab Kwaw-Swanzy
![A second Nowruz in lockdown is distancing me from my Persian culture](https://gal-dem.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Untitled-design-60-1.png)
A second Nowruz in lockdown is distancing me from my Persian culture
Sahar Esfandiari & DiyoraShadijanova
![I barely recognise myself: how lockdown stopped my performance for the patriarchy](https://gal-dem.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Copy-of-Copy-of-Untitled-4.png)
I barely recognise myself: how lockdown stopped my performance for the patriarchy
Niellah Arboine
![I miss airports more than anything else in the pandemic](https://gal-dem.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Untitled-design-55.png)
I miss airports more than anything else in the pandemic
DiyoraShadijanova & Editors
![How Filipino nurses became the forgotten victims of the pandemic](https://gal-dem.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/IMG_2029-scaled.jpeg)