Sheri Nault is an artist and activist in Canada. They’re of mixed Métis and European descent and very active in the Indigenous Two-Spirit community. Sheri speaks to John Seven about how they didn’t take the pandemic very seriously at first, but once they understood what was ahead worked to meet the challenges of continuing their creative work and activism in a form that was possible during a lockdown. How do you reach out while staying in?

Brian Walker is a singer/songwriter in Philadephia who performs as A Day Without Love. He’s also the host of the podcast Dreams Not Memes. Brian speaks to John Seven about his approach to living through lockdown, an outlook that taught him just because the world seemed to come to a halt that didn’t mean his own creative abilities had to do the same.

Whit Taylor is an Ignatz Award-winning cartoonist and contributing editor at The Nib, but in 2020 she added another role to her repertoire — mother. John Seven talks with Whit Taylor about her experience of not only giving birth during the original height of the pandemic in the spring, but how raising a newborn during the pandemic has been very different from what we think of as normal, and has also presented challenges to her creative life.