How Squishmallow collecting helped me cope with grief, make new enemies and find ‘villains’ worth studying
- Written by Danielle Hass, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Marketing, West Virginia University
I was one of the millions of people who lost someone to the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite the nonstop news about the “new normal,” my grief felt invisible. I took shallow solace in my phone and turned to social media to numb me from the reality that I now lived in: a world without my dad.
One day, while mindlessly scrolling, I came across...
