shawn thia (actor) igs update with ONEW: IF YOU WERE WONDERING: Yes, Onew was extremely friendly & so comfortable to interview. Honestly, both Xixi & I were starstruck when we saw the man in person 🤩
the jokes about shawn mendes having monkeypox aren’t funny at all and are only further contributing to the harmful framing of monkeypox as a “gay sti.” and laughing it off only further contributes to the same homophobic rhetoric of “oh, well, he’s gay, he should’ve known the consequences” that allowed so many politicians to shrug off the aids crisis and watch gay men die without even an ounce of sympathy. and if you’re making those jokes you really aren’t funny at all.