The Yard Sale is an annual event hosted by the Children’s service club. Each and every year, proceeds go to the Baobei foundation in Shanghai where the main purpose is to cloth and house orphans whilst finding them foster and permanent families. Continue reading Reflections on the Yard Sale
Children play on scooters in an empty plaza. April 19, 2020. Continue reading Re-emergence
There is little question that the COVID-19 pandemic has made people more distrustful of one another. In a time when anyone and anything could be a disease carrier, it is difficult to not be suspicious. A visceral manifestation of this distrust is violent xenophobia, expressed in public acts of brutality against Asians: a Singaporean University College London (UCL) student in the streets of London, and even an Asian-American family and child in a Texas supermarket. Such distrust shows when people dub COVID-19 as the “Chinese virus.” It shows when people inside China call it “Wuhan pneumonia” and panic at the … Continue reading A Pandemic’s Crisis of Trust