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The Pandemic and YOU

Have you experienced any discomfort while participating in online video classes or meetings from home? Was it difficult for you to pick a place in your home to set up online meetings? Were your meetings ever interrupted by personal, or back stage matters? Has the way you present yourself in the front stage changed since you’ve been working and studying in the back stage?

Front Stage and Back Stage

The dramatic societal shift that occurred with the rise of COVID-19 not only blurred the line between front stage and back stage, but also has had some unexpected consequences. Once the society went into lockdown, home or back stage became the repository of not only our personal lives, but also our front stage professional and educational worlds. Because of having to do front stage video calls in our back stage settings, students who may have felt equal in the classroom discovered that they in fact come from starkly different worlds. Seeing the social inequity of our back stages has made many feel the depths of the social class divide in ways we never expected (Casey 2020).