Drawing from personal experience, combined with historical records of letters between queer women, ‘Keeping in Touch: Lesbian Dating During a Global Pandemic’ is a short interactive narrative about queer pandemic dating, and using online forms of communication to maintain contact when physically distant.

It includes snippets of emails, voice notes, songs, poems and horoscopes that the two characters send to each other during the course of a year. The work highlights how writing tools and technology, from letters to email, can shape and influence our romantic connections (especially during a period when no other form of contact is safe or permitted) from the secret coded language of queer letters to the coded computer programs that support modern ways of communicating.

This work was available as a tactile installation at St Annes House. It is still available to experience online from your own home here.