I want to know their names, who and what they loved, the people they had waiting for them at home, everything they hoped for. I want to know the fabric of their days and the contexts of their lives.

It’s not the attack but the apathy that still haunts me. Trauma transforms you. You become someone that bad things happen to, you lose faith anyone will care. Once you realize you’re not safe in the world while being who you are, the sense of danger never ends.

Since the shootings, @AAJA members reported: -being fluent in Korean, knowing ATL, asking to cover but being told they may be too biased -being the only AAPI at work and feeling overwhelmed they have to represent all AAPIs -& more. To their newsrooms: aaja.org/2021/03/18/aaj…

Xiaojie Tan was killed the day before her 50th birthday, when she “would have gathered with her only child for a slice of strawberry fresh cream cake, her favorite. The mother and daughter were best friends.” So devastating. usatoday.com/story/news/nat…

Hyun Jung Grant was one of the 8 people murdered on Tuesday. She was an Korean immigrant who worked at Gold Spa—a single mother of 2 sons. Her son Randy Park, age 23, said “She wasn’t just my mother. She was my friend.” thedailybeast.com/son-of-atlanta…

She immigrated to America for “regular immigrant reasons.”

The group was multiethnic — Jimmy Sing Hay is of Chinese descent, Sakhone Lasaphangthong is Laotian, John Le is Vietnamese and Seng Saephan is Mien, an ethnic group from Southeast Asia.

Being third culture is very strange because what you do to get accepted into the majoritised group means you get rejected from the minoritised group and vice versa. Essentially, we can live in limbo, accepted by neither group.

I’m asking for the kids because too many AAPI students suffer under the weight of stoicism. Just give the extension.

If you did quarantine without a car or dishwasher, you deserve a different kind of intensive therapy

Sending love to all my Asian friends out there who showed up for work today. The concept of a weekend didn't magically make our hurt and grief go away, so do what you can to take care of yourselves and each other. 💙

also of course, if you didn't know, you can change your settings so that videos don't autoplay, we can try to protect our hearts, we need them for the long run

If you want to help, take upstander and bystander training. Encourage others to. Speak up. Fight for funding and resources for our community. We need you.

.R “There’s always a call to action now. There’s always something that someone’s trying to get out of you. And that’s just the nature of the internet,” Ms. Nguyen said. “I’m ready to have more nuance in how we coexist and how we collaborate with each other,” she added.

Listening to Rest is Resistance: A Manifesto by The Nap Ministry while laying down…

Ready for today