In 2021, the Point asks writers to imagine post-pandemic futures. For this issue, we asked artist and incoming Asia Art Archive director Christopher K. Ho to discuss forms of solidarity that break from ethno-nationalist thinking.
Pundits predicted the pandemic would flatten hierarchies. Indifferent to national boundaries and indiscriminate of culture, class, and race, the coronavirus would elicit an appropriately pan-national, humanitarian response. Instead, in the United States, mortality struck Black and Brown Americans disproportionately. In India, those who could afford exorbitantly priced,
