Last month at my family’s Lunar New Year dinner, I recited our usual new year greetings:
In that exact order every year for the last 26 years, I’ve always offered these blessings to my family as a routine gesture. However, this year—as hate crimes against Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities and anti-Asian COVID-19 rhetoric spike—I find myself pleading that these words stay true for my family and community.
Members of our AAPI communities are terrified, hurting, and frustrated at the threat of physical violence, with countless elders violently attacked and murdered in the past year and Georgia’s recent mass shooting where eight people were
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