A chat with migrant construction worker, poet and writer Zakir Hossain Khokan, as he recovers in a Singaporean hospital from COVID-19. Censorship, civil society, and hopes for the future. Check it out on the @NewNaratif podcast. https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/new-naratifs-political-agenda/id1431631555?i=1000472682218

Here’s a great thread by @kixes. On how COVID-19 infections have followed the faultlines of xenophobia and racism in Singapore, and what Western accounts of the virus there miss. https://mobile.twitter.com/kixes/status/1253674760883462145