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Author Archives: First-person essay by Alexis Lai
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As a Han Chinese woman in Pittsburgh, I see the Atlanta massacre exposing how media, government and academia fail Asian women

by First-person essay by Alexis Lai

Six weeks after I moved to Pittsburgh to begin a graduate program, a mass shooting took place at a synagogue 2 miles from my apartment. Six weeks before my departure, another mass shooting hit close to home.  This time, the hate crime took place in another state, but it targeted Asian women. On March 16, […]