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2 months ago, #ChristinaYunaLee's death rocked me. my group chats filled with tips on buying mace & coupons for personal alarms. but i knew my sisters deserved more. so i set out to explore the military, cultural, psychosocial history of this violence—& what justice might mean 🧵
i learned from historian Paul Kramer on the origins & legacy of military-sexual imperialism (American, British, more) & how state-sanctioned violence against women in Asia was justified as a matter of military necessity. the impacts are alive & well today.
apjjf.org/2011/9/30/Paul…
apjjf.org/2011/9/30/Paul…
i reflected with filmmaker & cultural scholar @CelineShimizu on how tropes of Asian women—servile, submissive, suffering, and thus uniquely “sexy"—have been recycled for over a century. this very specific type of violence now permeates our cultural waters.
dukeupress.edu/the-hypersexua…
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Tomorrow is the Remembrance Day of the #AtlantaSpaShooting & recently am elderly Filipina (67) was attacked 125 times (not reposting the vid). How do you come back from that? Who else feels zapped? Holding my Pinay / FilAm / & broader AAPI community close. Some reminders 🙏🏽
#StopAsianHate is part of it, but let’s move towards language around “Stop Asian Racism & Violence” as it acknowledges a foundation built on institutions, systems, & ways of being grounded in yt supremacy, anti-Blackness, colonialism, & misogyny. Transformation calls 4 abolition
Remember that attacks on Asians have come from multiple races. (See image from @blackandasiansoulsunite). Not to dismiss the necessary work between Black & Asians but prefacing b/c I know someone might fall into scapegoating entire communities based on this event or social media: 
