Across two sessions, Fly Orr discusses experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic. She discusses getting sick, presumably with COVID, in March of 2020 and navigating the pandemic as a disabled person who is bipolar and has mobility and post-9/11 respiratory issues. She describes the pandemic's impacts on her mental health, the Lower East Side neighborhood, and her daily routines. Orr imagines a futur e with designer personal protective equipment and looks forward to traveling again. Other topics addressed during the course of the interview include the Fly Zine Archive at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, teaching, zine and comic projects, punk and squatting history, the Black Lives Matter movement, COVID-19 vaccines, and national politics
Artists; COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-; COVID-19 (Disease)--Social Aspects; COVID-19 (Disease)--Health aspects; Epidemics--Social Aspects; Social distancing (Public health); Social distancing (Public health) and education; Black lives matter movement; Zines; United States Politics and government 21st century; Lower East Side (New York, N.Y.); Fly, 1963-
Format
oral histories
Genre
Interviews
Date
2021
Physical Description
108 pages
Note (Biographical)
Fly Orr is a comic book artist who lives in a formerly squatted low-income co-op on the Lower East Side. She is a teacher of comics, zine making, art and activism, and literacy. Orr has been making zines since 1985 and living in the Lower East Side fo r the last thirty years. Two thousand of Orr's zines are in the Fly Zine Archive at the Minneapolis Institute of Art
Note
Interviewed by Amy Starecheski on May 31, 2020 and February 8, 2021
Note (Provenance)
Fly Orr, Gift, transferred from Columbia Center for Oral History Research 2023