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Author Archives: Farid Nad

Farid (he/dia) is a disabled freelance illustrator and comic artist from Malaysia whose work centres around themes of identity, belonging and hope, exploring the intricacies of intersecting marginalised identities in various settings, speculative or otherwise. Farid has been involved in mental health and disability activism via comics or linguistic analyses and talks. Find his work at farideacs.xyz and Twitter @farideacs.

A digital hand-drawn illustration showing a man sitting on a hospital cot in a quarantine centre. He wears a hospital gown and holds a mobile phone in his hands. A large beam of light shines from the phone, illuminating his torso and spreading out behind him to show a stylised screenshot of a Facebook support group for COVID long-haulers. In the beam of light, two other people emerge; a woman in a long-sleeved dark red shirt with a nasal oxygen tube connected to an unseen oxygen tank, and a man in glasses, a grey hoodie and a light blue shirt. The man reaches out to grasp the woman’s hand. The rest of the quarantine centre not illuminated by the light beam is depicted in shades of grey.

Feature

Across Southeast Asia, Long COVID Haunts Pandemic Survivors

by Gerald Flynn and Farid Nad 25 January 20222 February 2022

These Southeast Asians caught COVID-19 and survived, only to be misdiagnosed, misunderstood and fundamentally ignored by their countries’ medical communities. Hope for the region’s long-haulers lies in banding together.