Chapter 25: COVID-19, Murder, and Multicultural Connections: My Dream Job

In this chapter, I recount my experience as a first-time Multicultural Education online lecturer during the time of COVID-19 (C-19) and civil unrest in the United States. I implement a critical autoethnographical approach (Chang, 2008; Ellis, 2004) to reflect on the start of my journey to becoming an effective online educator while navigating the early, personal consequences of the C-19 pandemic—against the backdrop of unrelenting police violence toward Black Americans and country-wide protests and rallies sparked by these acts of injustice. Using personal excerpts from teacher ~ ~ learner (i.e., one who is fluid between teaching and learning) (Knaier, 2021) interactions that focus on the transition of becoming an online instructor and instructing in the context of the C-19 crisis and the Ahmaud Arbery murder, I reflect on my guiding practices as a queer instructor.