Fugitive Breath, Breathing Bones: Ancestral Guide for Abolishing Anti-Black Gendered COVID-19 Necropolitics

Breathing, which is the very core of living, changed after the onset of COVID-19. We were required to wear masks, and when we contracted COVID, we had to lie on our stomachs to breathe (Thompson et al. 2020). Some of us did not survive this new way of breathing and transitioned to the ancestral realm; some lived and harmed themselves or others; and some found ways to cope with illness, adapt to physical distance, and breathe through social justice advocacy. How can a reflection on the ways breathing transformed during COVID provide an opportunity to envision anew breathing in a COVID