Fighting Racism in the Age of COVID-19

Using this moment to radicalize and dismantle white supremacy culture

The COVID-19 virus has an average diameter of 120 nanometers, invisible to the naked eye.

Photo by Fusion Medical Animation

In its invisible path of destruction, it has rendered Asian Americans highly visible — visible as targets of anti-Asian violence.

It feels like a cruel joke. Asian Americans have been fighting invisibility for a long time, and now we are suddenly so visible, visible in a way that makes us unsafe. Every single day, I wake up to more and more headlines about anti-Asian racism, from high school bullies to news anchors, from violent stabbings to dehumanization, from east coast to west coast, from North America to Europe. It feels never-ending.

Racism is Contagious

From Momoko Schafer’s “Prejudice is a Disease” project.© 2020 MEL TAING PHOTOGRAPHY