Social Distancing Is A Social Responsibility
4 min readMar 16, 2020
It should not have taken government intervention to prevent us from prioritizing our own pleasure over the lives of other.
About a month ago, I published an article urging the LGBTQ community to challenge anti-Asian racism stemming from the COVID-19 outbreak. My article was one of many that chronicled the alarming rate of hate crimesperpetuated against Asians in the wake of the virus and outlined the intersections between the scapegoating of queer folks during the HIV/AIDS crisis and the racialization of infectious disease like COVID-19. Now that we have…
