In Holder’s ongoing response to COVID-19, called First Responders, she explained, “We’re in it together, but the pandemic keeps impacting Black and Brown communities disproportionately.” Holder continues, “We are depending on our First Responders and Healthcare Workers to keep our society functioning during COVID. Yet many of these heroes, many of whom are people of color, do not receive adequate wages, healthcare, child care, benefits or pension plans.” The racial disparities of hardships faced due the pandemic are significant, in wage wealth, job-related risk, and disease contraction and death. According to one study by the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) on children who died of COVID, 78% were Native American, Black, or Hispanic, despite their only making up 41% of the population. 

The works that feature construction tools were created a decade ago as part of Holder’s series Outsourced!, but with the expanding definition of “essential” to include construction and home improvement stores, the same sensibilities evoked then permeate to today’s situation.