a series on all the work that remains after Donald Trump’s presidency. On Tuesday, the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at Cal State San Bernardino released a new study of 16 jurisdictions across the country, which found a 164% increase in reports of anti-Asian hate crimes in the first quarter of 2021, compared with the same period in 2020. New York City saw the most significant increase at 223%, followed by San Francisco at 140%, Los Angeles at 80% and Boston at 60%. The surge in anti-Asian violence has drawn national attention in recent months, as well as important dialogue about the long history of erasure, depoliticization, and at times, weaponization of Asian identity to reinforce white supremacy through popular “model minority” tropes. These conversations have led to vital activism and action on the community level. On the policy level, lawmakers have responded by passing legislation to address anti-Asian violence through hate crime legislation, which activists of color, and many Asian activists, have expressed concerns about.