Artsy: On March 16th, Robert Aaron Long targeted three massage parlors in the Atlanta, Georgia, area citing a need to eliminate the temptations they provoked. Eight people were shot to death, including six Asian women; their names were Daoyou Feng, Delaina Ashley Yaun Gonzalez, Hyun Jung Grant, Suncha Kim, Paul Andre Michels, Soon Chung Park, Xiaojie Tan, and Yong Ae Yue. While Long has insisted to police that the incident was not a hate crime, according to the Chosun Ilbo, a major Korean language newspaper, one witness recounted Long shouting, “I am going to kill all Asians” before firing in one location.
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This article is a wonderful introduction to various Asian American and Pacific Islander artists. Valery Jung Estabrook made an instillation named “Hometown Hero (Ch*nk)”. It expresses the racism that has been directed towards them as an asian person in southern Virginia. Shown through the Americana aesthetic of the piece. stephanie mei huang’s art deconstructs the effects of colonialism on the present day and how that affects Asian Americans. They question the structures of oppression and how white people continue to alienate the asian diasophora. Alex Ito is interested in how the Asian community and the Black community are different and similar in their fight for liberation. They state that both subject intersect often but that people in the Asian community still perpetuate anti-blackness. Their art challenges the community to take space in the activist circles and understand their specific experiences because of their race. Stephanie Syjuco’s works question what it is to be American and how the AAPI label allows for the strengthening of the community for politico change. Andrew Kung is a photographer that wishes to call out our inner biases and raise awareness on the problems that the Asian American community faces. Like the anti-asian racism. Sexualization of asian women, white supremacy, and gun control.
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