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Corona Clothing #2: "Social Distancing Queen"
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Corona Clothing #2: "Social Distancing Queen"
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This is another COVID-19 inspired shirt from the same Ross in Round Rock TX. It shows an African American woman with an afro wearing a orange, yellow, pink, and purple mask. written on her hair is "Social distancing" and beneath her is written "queen". This is the first example I had seen of Corona themed vocabulary appearing on a clothing item. This shirt states that the woman in the picture, and the wearer of the shirt, are social distancing experts. It also implies by the word "expert" that the person wearing the shirt is very diligent in making sure they follow the proper social distancing requirements because they want to do their best to protect others. The term "queen" according to Lilian Esene is a specific cultural reference to "a collective effort to overwrite the negative connotations [of certain terms] that, historically, have often been associated with" undervaluing and demeaning "black people". "It’s all done to contrast the way that our history and our persons have been portrayed in school curriculums, books and the media" she states in her article on The Gazette website.
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Photograph taken on a smartphone
Link (Bibliographic Ontology)
https://web.archive.org/web/20210321152316/https://westerngazette.ca/features/special_editions/the-black-king-and-queen-narrative/article_2f5d3b9e-0a05-11e8-b4d3-1347ad094936.html
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Date Submitted (Dublin Core)
03/21/2021
Date Modified (Dublin Core)
03/21/2021
03/22/2021
Date Created (Dublin Core)
09/24/2020
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This item was submitted on March 21, 2021 by Kayla Phillips using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: http://mail.covid-19archive.org/s/archive
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