Documenting the mundane in quarantine

ABSTRACT This autoethnography uses narrative inquiry to make sense of practices normalized during quarantine. It centers my identity as a classed and racialized immigrant in relation to the socioeconomics of quarantine to question seemingly innocent mandates, policies, and practices. The narrative form of the article is influenced by Nathan Hodges’ ‘The Chemical Life.' I use the self-reflexive ‘I' to connect the individual to the social and engage the reader with my routine in quarantine. I also rely on repetition – inspired by Aisha Durham’s ‘On Collards'– to reinforce the normalcy of the quarantine, i.e., what is new for most of us has been the same old for most of us. The repetition combined with understatements attempts to unsettle the novelty of quarantine.