“…Evidently, the past three pandemic years (2020-2022) have spawned even more autoethnographic studies as this unprecedented crisis has pushed us to dive deep into the personal, emotional, professional, and sociopolitical challenges faced by us (Chen & Sato, 2023;McAlinden & Dobinson, 2022;Morales et al, 2022). In some ways, the pandemic also provides a third space for us to spin a yarn on the impact of the ERT phenomenon on us and how we can transform the way we teach and research in the post-COVID era.…”