In these last couple of months we asked some of the PhD students and researchers involved in INCH to tell us what they thought of the last two cycles of our seminar – on the theme “Alternative Selves”. We chose to do this through video, which has been – unfortunately – a lingering necessity in this pandemic era. Yet it is in the faces and embodied voices of our comrades that we have found the strength to move forward, discussing books and films and questioning the present. Here is the first in the series of contributions: check it out!