Hello and welcome to fan time podcast for all those complex and complicated conversations

about the gray areas in our lives.

I am journalist and writer Jared Hill and I am journalist and editor Trevelle Anderson

coming up on the show today.

We're going to dive deep on the COVID vaccine with two black medical professionals.

But first, as you all know, past the popcorn is our opportunity to discuss some of the things

y'all are talking about on social media.

Or as this week is the case, not enough people are talking about.

And that is the recent rise in anti-Asian violence over the last month in particular.

But definitely since y'all's little former president started his racist and xenophobic

foolishness around this time last year, several videos have gone viral on social media depicting

horrible attacks on Asian people and on Asian owned businesses.

The whole most national media outlets have only just begun to cover these issues.

We wanted to spend some time breaking down the impact of what's going on with someone

from the community who can help us bring a different perspective.

So help us welcome researcher, educator and consultant Bianca Ma Butte Lui to the pod.

Thank you so much for having me.

All right.

So a couple of weeks ago, you wrote an article in L that helped me find you titled for Asian

Americans, sharing our grief is an act of revolution.

Talk this a little bit about what kind of prompted you to write that piece.

Yeah.

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