For the fifth volume of our QueerSTS forum we thus not only asking for scholarly papers but between July and November 2020 we were collecting voices, videos and art from our community: How did and does the COVID-19 pandemic – and the measures taken in their countries – change their work, their research, their teaching, their daily routines and their relationships? We wanted to know what they think: Which consequences will only be temporary, which effects will last? And: How do they feel about all that?