Vote for the Dead

I created this print to commemorate the hundreds of thousands of lives lost in 2020 due to our government’s inaction towards a deadly pandemic, as well as the racial violence that was happening throughout the country. By the end of 2020, over 400,000 people had died of COVID due to the horrific neglect of our state and federal governments. The Trump administration was largely responsible for these deaths as they refused to take the disease seriously and instead coerced states to reopen.
Those dying of COVID were overwhelmingly Black, Latinx and Indigenous. In my home state of California, in 2020 Latinx folks made up about 36.3% of the state yet we made up nearly half of the deaths. Frontline workers who are mainly Black and Latinx were getting rapidly infected, while they faced medical racism and poor health care. In some states, governors rushed to reopen the economy even...