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In March 2020, the two of us formed morning virtual sessions to work together through Zoom when most U.S. colleges and universities started transitioning to remote learning. It has been almost a year now since we first started our session. These morning sessions not only maintained our academic progress but also provided a space where we could traverse our struggles, progress, and achievements. Through this online space, we expressed our anxiety, self-doubt, and frustration led by teaching in the global pandemic. As we moved from East Asia to pursue higher education and professional careers in the U.S. academia, teaching is always already a challenge. Now, teaching via diverse online platforms to adapt to the global health crisis, not only were we navigating in and out the physical and virtual borders of classrooms, but also, we were crossing the intersection of physical and ideological borders of nations, states, cultures, religions, politics, and economics. In this article, we collectively zoom in on our experiences of teaching during the global pandemic. Through our similar yet different locations in academia and transnational sociopolitical positions, we also zoom out to reveal the connectedness of our identities with historical, cultural, political, and transnational facets. Hopefully, our stories provide food for thought to many others who are also experiencing personal and professional challenges.

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