Rose Nguyen Rose Nguyen is a writer from Honolulu. She is an incoming PhD student in Creative Writing and Literature at the University of Southern California.

Beyond “Hate” | Evading the Carceral Trap of Asian American Grievance

Rose Nguyen

To mark the one-year anniversary of the March 2021 Atlanta spa shootings that left eight people dead, six of whom were ethnically Chinese or Korean women, The New York Times published an op-ed by Korean American novelist Min Jin Lee headlined “Asian Americans Have Always Lived With Fear.” Lee draws on the results of an informal Twitter survey in which she asked her Asian and Asian American followers how they’d...