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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…
dukeupress.edu/the-hypersexua…
#ChristinaYunaLee fought her attacker, who was out on supervised release from previous assaults, for some time. One resident of her 6 floor building heard her screams but "thought nothing of it."
Woman Followed and Fatally Stabbed in Chinatown Apartment nytimes.com/2022/02/13/nyr…
Woman Followed and Fatally Stabbed in Chinatown Apartment nytimes.com/2022/02/13/nyr…
Police are not calling this a hate crime,but there have been a series of attacks on Asian women & men in recent weeks. Michelle Alyssa Go was killed when she was pushed in front of a subway train in January. Mayor Adams says he stands in solidarity with the Asian/AAPI community. 
Anti-Asian hate crimes escalated starting in 2020 due to Trump claiming China as the source of the coronavirus.
I wrote about the rise in violence last March after the horrific mass murder of Asian women in Atlanta, but little has been written since.
epgn.com/2021/03/17/sto…
I wrote about the rise in violence last March after the horrific mass murder of Asian women in Atlanta, but little has been written since.
epgn.com/2021/03/17/sto…
