Tik Tok Video by Swati Shastry

DESCRIPTION
A Tik Tok by Swati under her handle: @ssswat

Description of Video: Green screen background of Swati. She is wearing black glasses, has short black hair and a shawl around her. On top of the greenscreen background is a video of Swati. The greenscreen shifts to pictures of screenshots from a previous video that say, "wishing you amazing health, you're so strong," "wishing you a safe and speedy recovery," and "I'm so sorry, good luck babe." She is wearing light pink glasses and a pink turtleneck.

Transcript: "This is a video I posted shortly after my cancer diagnosis. It has over 400k views, and the comment section is overwhelmingly positive because cancer, unlike most medical diagnoses, is a sympathetic illness. This is a video I made last week, it has almost 400k views, and this is the comment section."

The greenscreen background switches to comments that read, "take off the mask," "take off the mask OMGGGG you can breathe fresh air," "she's stuck in the matrix," "you are not well mentally," "this satire."

"Wearing my mask, no matter where that is, is a decision I make based off of being an immunocompromised and disabled person. And these are the kinds of things that people say when they see someone who isn't portraying the image of an inspiring cancer survivor but just a disabled person existing in an ongoing mass disabling pandemic. so uh.. get your friends."

ADDITIONAL METADATA
Subject(s): Swati Shastry
Type: Moving Image
Language: English
Creator: Nureena Faruqi

PROVENANCE
Collection: Nureena Faruqi Fellowship Project
Item History: 2024-07-05 (created); 2024-08-13 (modified)

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