Growing up a nerdy kid, Elaine W. Ho was encouraged in her hopes of being a writer—until one fateful failure at the age of eighteen when a piece of “foreign-flavoured” writing cast her into an elementary level English course, crushing her dream. She continues to struggle with lessons in failure on a frequent basis, though she now writes from time to time, in the most free and unlearned way ever.
Together with Amy Suo Wu, she is co-host and ‘coven mam-san’ of Radio Slumber, an aural gathering of Asian diaspora practitioners made in response to the wintery 2020 outbreaks of racism since the coronavirus pandemic.
After co-creating a radio project that privileged rest, gossip, and informal knowledge production, Elaine W. Ho writes about the interplay between institutional care and her own body from the vantage point of her hospital bed in Hong Kong.
