Laura Gao hopes her comic combats xenophobia and convinces people to see the Chinese city as more than the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic.
― until the age of 3, when her parents moved the family to a small town in Texas.
Seeing her hometown in news reports over the last few months because of the COVID-19 pandemic has been an incredibly strange experience. “Because the media was so hyper-focused on the virus, the wet markets and the government, they never talked about how the people were doing and what Wuhan means to them,” said Gao, who now lives in San Francisco and works as a product manager at Twitter.
“There wasn’t much that was incorrect as much as there just wasn’t any news about the overall picture of Wuhan outside of the coronavirus,” she told HuffPost.Increasingly, the incomplete picture of life in Wuhan has been coupled with racism and xenophobia against Chinese Americans and people of Asian descent in general.
"Instead of remembering my hometown as the 'the place where COVID originated', I want people to respect Wuhan as a city with beautiful history, culture, and people. This is the Wuhan I know." -
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