Lucas Kwong
ContributorLucas Kwong is a writer, musician, assistant professor of English at New York City College of Technology, and assistant editor for New American Notes Online. He’s written at his newsletter eschatontwist.substack.com; outlets such as Public Books, Red Letter Christians, Sojourners, The Revealer, and the Institute for Christian Socialism’s Bias Magazine; and scholarly journals such as Victorian Literature and Culture and Journal of Narrative Theory. He invites readers of any ethnic, religious, or national background to follow the open letter on Twitter @xenoseimi and join the letter’s 700+ signatories at againstchristianxenophobia.com.
Current Events
July 22, 2021
Against “Sanctified Sinophobia”
Last December I came across this tweet by Senator Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee: “China has a 5,000 year history of cheating and stealing. Some things never change…” Throughout 2020, I’d known that GOP senators–the same people exacerbating the hardship of low-income Americans and COVID-stricken ICE detainees–had been whipping their base into ecstatic hatred of those supposedly responsible for