Over the past year, there has been an increase in racially motivated attacks on individuals within the Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) community. These abhorrent acts continue to exemplify ongoing racism and white supremacy in our country, with the most recent incident taking the lives of eight Georgia residents this past week, including six women of Asian descent. When recording this episode in mid-February, we did not expect the relevance of the topics we discussed in this episode to rise to this level in the societal consciousness through the shootings that occurred earlier this week. We understand this conversation may be difficult to have, but it is integral to the ongoing work of dismantling racism and AAPI stigma throughout the United States. We stand in solidarity with the Asian American Pacific Islander community and against racism and prejudice of all kinds.  

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In this notorious episode, Arria Hauldin and Carolyn Brady discuss the history behind the name of the Coronavirus and COVID-19. Additionally, they discuss the impacts of COVID-19 and its stigma on the Asian American Pacific Islander communities.  

We want to thank our guest, Rhiana (Rhi) Suarez, for sitting in on this episode. Do you hear our guest in the episode? 

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Episode Sources:
School Spotlight: Duke University (Nov 2020) - LA Times https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2020-11-21/how-coronavirus-tested-helped-duke-university-keep-its-doors-open

Discovered a disease? WHO has new rules for avoiding offensive names (May 2015) Science Magazine - https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/05/discovered-disease-who-has-new-rules-avoiding-offensive-names 

What's in a Name? Why WHO's Formal Name for the New Coronavirus Disease Matters (Feb 2020) - TIME https://time.com/5782284/who-name-coronavirus-covid-19/

The tricky politics of naming the new coronavirus (Feb 2020) BBC - https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200214-coronavirus-swine-flu-and-sars-how-viruses-get-their-names

Why the Asian American Covid data picture is so incomplete (Oct 2020) NBC - https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/why-asian-american-covid-data-picture-so-incomplete-n1243219 

Music Credits:
Intro and Outro Music: From Page to Practice (Written by Bryan Teoh)