Item

Family Fights

Title (Dublin Core)

Family Fights

Disclaimer (Dublin Core)

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Description (Dublin Core)

HIST30060
My family is pretty large: I have two brothers, a sister….and a whole menagerie of animals! Gracie dog is the best, but we also have another dog, several cats, a rabbit, and a variety of feathered friends. My siblings live interstate, so we’ve been barred from seeing them since February because of border restrictions. During lockdown, we’ve been keeping in touch by having consistent arguments on our family group chat about how to rank our pets from best to worst. My brother frames it like a ‘best and fairest medal’, as you’d receive in sport. The conversations remind me of when we all used to live together at home, and they’ve provided a nice reprieve from more ominous discussions about the pandemonium enveloping society. I think the notion of ‘reprieve’ is central to the power of animals in this plague year: they distract us from our pandemic woes and force us to take a sabbatical from our anxieties.

Date (Dublin Core)

September 26, 2020

Creator (Dublin Core)

Joseph Moorhead

Contributor (Dublin Core)

Joseph Moorhead

Event Identifier (Dublin Core)

HIST30060

Partner (Dublin Core)

University of Melbourne

Type (Dublin Core)

Facebook screenshots

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Social Media (including Memes)
English Social Distance
English Home & Family Life
English Education--Universities

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

family
pet
Facebook
group chat
fight
communication
happy
reprieve
nostalgic
brother
sister

Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)

family
fights
pets
menagerie
birds
ducks
cats
dogs
rabbit
facebook
communication
happy
nostalgic

Collection (Dublin Core)

Pandemic Pets

Linked Data (Dublin Core)

HIST 30060 University of Melbourne Syllabus

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

11/09/2020

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

02/17/2021
03/09/2021
07/02/2021

Date Created (Dublin Core)

09/26/2020

Item sets

Covid 19
Australian Collection

This item was submitted on November 9, 2020 by Joseph Moorhead using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://www.covid-19archive.org/s/archive

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