Coronavirus and the Racism it has Unearthed

In 2009, my family made the foolish decision to visit Canada. While there, locals were sure to cast great distances between themselves and my family out of fear of catching what was then a newly discovered infectious disease — the American virus. I was confronted with a myriad of angry protestors sporting picket signs that demanded Canadian schools to suspend their American students. Soon, the hashtag “#NoAmericansAllowed” flooded social media and storefronts around the world, from Britain to Fr

Lien Truong’s Art Exhibit Questions Western Narratives

Walking into the Eli Marsh Gallery this fall, visitors will become at once immersed in light, chiming, almost meditative music and works of art heavy in color and content. This initial experience captures the inherent juxtapositions in Lien Truong’s exhibition, “The Sky is Not Sacred,” on display at Fayerweather Hall until Nov. 22. Placing Western narratives of the sky as a “sacred” place next to American aerial bombings of Middle Eastern and Asian countries, Truong draws upon themes of nature a