And I'm going to use. So my first question is your Twitter handle is called cat content only.

Yeah, that's, I do love cats, but I don't tweet out cat content.

Actually, you might be disappointed if you think that I tweet out cat content because lately it's mostly been content about content about coronavirus and racism surrounding coronavirus in particular.

So as important as cat content.

As important as that content, yeah.

Cool.

Can you start by introducing yourself where you're calling from and your background?

Yeah.

So I am I live in New York right now. I am I'm I live in New York right now. I am Chinese American. I grew up I was born and raised in Indiana and then I did my undergrad in Kentucky, Louisville, Kentucky, in anthropology with a minor in Middle East and Islamic studies.

And then I went on to grad school at the School of Oriental and African Studies and did a

master's in medical anthropology. And around that time, I think that was like 2014, that was right around the time of the Ebola crisis, the Ebola epidemic.

And I don't, I no longer work in academia, but I still have very much an interest in like medical

anthropology and the history of disease in the way that like diseases are culturally

perceived. So lately I've been talking a lot on the internet

about the racialized aspects of coronavirus.

And, um, and you know sometimes the way you know the way that I see how it parallels with how we reacted to Ebola just a few years ago.

Cool, yeah, I got first introduced to your work via Twitter, like, you know, all good shit posters.

But I actually found it really amazing just because I was seeing this stuff and you know there's a lot of parallels with

you know indigenous history and just the like for example like the way that the New York Times talked about Ebo Morales, you know, in the wake of the military coup that over through him, he was like this corrupt indigenous man.

And they're very notorious, not just the times but other you know the US media is

very notorious about kind of like racializing certain people and places but I want to just read some of these headlines that you've re-posted on your Twitter

account. So one I think is from foreign policy. It says,

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