This special issue of WSQ takes the contemporary phenomenon of long COVID as its point of departure to consider the social, affective, and political consequences of living with chronic illness.

The articles and hybrid work included in the issue map the critical and scholarly intersections of chronic illness with disability and critical race studies, care, affect, and feminist eco-theory. WSQ: Chronic explores new ways to live with and understand the challenges of chronic illness, and in the process, following activism and scholarship in the fields of health humanities and graphic medicine, proposes new paradigms of health and healthcare.