Hello, I'm Dr. Jade Wu, your host for the Savvy Psychologist podcast.

Where every week I share evidence-based psychology tips to help you meet life's challenges.

I'll be back with a regular episode for you on Friday, but today in this bonus clip,

I wanted to share some of my feelings and thoughts about the recent Atlanta killings.

Thank you in advance for hearing me out.

On Tuesday, March 16th, a man killed eight people in Atlanta, Georgia.

Six of the eight victims were women of Asian descent.

Before I go any further, I want to say the victim's names.

I want to honor them because this story is not all about the perpetrator.

The names that have been released so far include Xiaojietan, Daoyoufeng, Delena Ashley

Yon, Paul Andre Michaels, and LCS Hernandez Ortiz who has severely injured but disarrived.

It's especially important for us to remember the victims and these killings, most of whom

were Asian women because Asian women in America have historically suffered from the tropes

of being interchangeable, disposable, exploitable, and sacrificial.

Personally, I'm feeling a complicated mix of grief and fear and anger.

I know many others, especially my fellow Asian Americans, feel the same way.

Our hearts are broken for the victims and their loved ones, and I can't even imagine their pain

and their trauma. But what I can imagine, because my family and I, as well as many of my friends,

have experienced it, is anti-Asian racism. Many Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders

have had similar experiences, especially during the surge of anti-Asian violence in the past year.

There were nearly 3,800 documented hate incidents against Asian Americans

reported in the United States over the past 12 months. And that's likely an underestimate

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