One Year After Atlanta Spa Shootings, More Disturbing Reports of Anti-Asian Hate

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🗓️ 11 March 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Seventy-four percent of Asian American and Pacific Islander women reported having personally experienced racism or discrimination in the last 12 months, according to a new study by the National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum. The news comes as we approach the March 16 anniversary of the murder of eight people, most of them Asian women, at three Atlanta-area spas. We’ll discuss the latest data on harassment and hate crimes against Asian Americans and what civil rights groups and others are doing to fight it Guests: Russell Jeung, professor of Asian American studies, San Francisco State University; co-founder, Stop AAPI Hate R.O. Kwon , author, the novel "The Incendiaries,"; co-editor, the anthology "KINK: Stories," and the Vanity Fair article, "A Letter to My Fellow Asian Women Whose Hearts Are Still Breaking." Nellie Tran, Associate Professor of Counseling and School Psychology, San Diego State University. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:24.6	Coming up on forum, the killings of eight people at Atlanta area spas last March,
1:29.3	six of them, Asian women, brought new attention and efforts to address violence and harassment against Asians.
1:35.3	But the group stop AAPI hate has found that in the year since Atlanta, one in five Asian American and Pacific Islanders have experienced a hate incident,
1:45.3	and a National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum survey
1:48.0	finds more than 70% of AAPI women experienced racism or discrimination in the past year.
1:55.2	This hour, we look at what, if anything, has changed in the fight against Asian hate.
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2:01.6	This is Forum.
2:06.6	I'm Mina Kim.
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