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● Warning: this article contains discussion of suicide from the start Margaret Cho … ‘The model minority thing made me want to rebel against it’ Photograph: Albert Sanchez Margaret Cho … ‘The model minority thing made me want to rebel against it’ Photograph: Albert Sanchez Thu 1 Apr 2021 01.00 EDT Last modified on Thu 1 Apr 2021 04.52 EDT The thing about being a standup comedian is that you can never turn off that part of your brain, not even when you are trying to kill yourself. Margaret Cho learned this in 2013 when she attempted suicide in a hotel room, using a shower curtain...

Guest Columnist An Thuy Nguyen: On a quilt of oppressions and injustices U.S. Sens. Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., and Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., speak during a "stop Asian hate" rally outside the Georgia State Capitol in Atlanta on Saturday afternoon, March 20. AP PHOTO/BEN GRAY Published: 4/1/2021 11:56:47 AM The deadly mass shooting targeting Asian American women working at massage parlors in Atlanta, GA is neither a tragic happenstance, nor an isolated case of a (sexually) frustrated white man having “a really bad day” — as in the words of openly racist Cherokee County’s Sheriff Jay Baker. The ...

The Excuse of Struggle April 1, 2021 On March 16, 2021, a lone gunman killed 8 people in a shooting spree targeting Asian-run massage parlors. Two people killed were patrons but 6 were the workers: women of Asian descent. Lots of speculation about the killer’s motives have been posited. Most see this as a clearly racism-fueled incident. Others are less willing to make this claim. They counter that just because the victims were Asian workers at an Asian-run establishment, that doesn’t mean his murderous actions were spurred on by race. After all, the killer said he killed them because of h...

US massage parlour shootings suspect may have 'sexual addiction', police say, after eight killed A white man accused of killing eight people, most of whom were of Asian descent, at massage parlours in the Atlanta area told police the attack was not racially motivated and that he potentially had a "sexual addiction", officials said Wednesday. A photo supplied by the Crisp County Sheriff's Office of Robert Aaron Long.(AP) Still, authorities said they were investigating whether the deaths were hate crimes amid concerns over a wave of attacks on Asian Americans. Six of the victims were identifie...

8 dead in Atlanta-area massage parlor shootings, suspect arrested Phil Helsel © Provided by NBC News A man captured in Georgia on Tuesday night is suspected in three shootings at Atlanta-area massage parlors or spas that killed eight people, officials said. Four people were killed in Cherokee County, north of Atlanta, around 5 p.m., and four women died in two shootings in Atlanta less than an hour later, authorities said. The four killed in Atlanta appeared to be Asian women, as were two of the victims in the Acworth community of Cherokee County, officials said. The Cherokee...