Listening for the Long Haul is an oral history project created by Strategies for High Impact in partnership with History Moves at University of Illinois-Chicago, which received a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Together, we are training and supporting COVID-19 longhaulers to interview and narrate their own experiences. We will then create digital humanities resources for distributing those stories and bringing about narrative change.
“Listening for the Long Haul is a truly collaborative project, in which chronically ill and disabled people work together to tell our stories, with full control over our narratives and how they’re presented. It’s in the truest spirit of disability justice: ‘Nothing about us without us!’ ”
— S4HI co-founder Gabriel San Emeterio
Public programming and a new website for the project will be launched in 2024.