In response to the mass shooting targeting Asian and Asian American women in the Atlanta region, WGS faculty have compiled a list of recommended reading (and viewing), on the intersections of gender and anti-Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) violence. We hope that these resources will support students, scholars, the media, and the wider public in critically analyzing the role of constructs of women, gender, and sexuality in this horrifying act of violence, and in ongoing violence targeting AAPI individuals and communities.
Public statements and media commentary
Statement on the importance of intersectionality for understanding the Atlanta shootings by Kimberlé Crenshaw
Unlearning Scarcity, Cultivating Solidarity: A Toolkit for the Asian American Community by Jenny Dorsey, Sarah Hong, Emily Chen, and Sarah Koof of Studio ATAO
The Atlanta Shooting and the Dehumanizing of Asian Women by Jiayang Fan
Intersectionality and Incommensurability: Third World Feminism and Asian Decolonization by Grace Kyungwon Hong in Asian American Feminisms and Women of Color Politics, Lynn Fujiwara and Shireen Roshanravan, eds.
The Story Does Not Begin in Georgia: A Letter to Students About the Recent Shootings by Ju Yon Kim
Critical Race Theory is not Anti-Asian by Mari Matsuda
It's Time to Reckon with the History of Asian Women in America by Durba Mitra, Genevieve Clutario, and Sara Kang
Why this Wave of Asian-American Violence Feels Different (interview with Cathy Park Hong) by Morgan Ome
Don’t forget — the Georgia shootings are a hate crime against sex workers by Tracy Quan
Red Canary Song Response to Shootings at Gold Massage Spa, Young's Asian Massage, & Aroma Therapy Spa by Red Canary Song
A Sociologist's View On The Hyper-Sexualization Of Asian Women In American Society by Nancy Wang Yuen
Academic readings
Ornamentalism by Anne Cheng
Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation; On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americans by David Eng and Shinhee Hong
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Kathy Park Hong
Traffic in Asian Women by Laura Hyun Yi Kang
The Managed Hand: Race, Gender and the Body in Beauty Service Work by Miliann Kang
The Making of Asia America by Erika Lee
Heterogeneity, Hybridity, Multiplicity: Asian American Differences by Lisa Lowe, chapter 3 in Lowe's Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color edited by Cherrie Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa
Sinister Wisdom 120: Asian Lesbians, edited by Vi Khi Nao
The history of fetishizing Asian women (interview with Celine Parreñas Shimizu) by Rachel Ramirez
Additional resources
Research Report and Resources for Disentangling Anti-Asian Violence by The AAPI-Covid 19 Research Project
Asian American Feminist Antibodies {care in the time of coronovirus}, by the Asian American Feminist Collective (PDF)
Educate Yourself and Get Involved by Kelsey Ichikawa, Kelsey Chen, Cynthia Chang, and Alice Cheng from the Building AAPI Collective Power website
Asian Americans (television series) by PBS