, originally published with NPR member station WBUR. Days after a man shot and killed six Asian women and two other people in Asian owned spas in the Atlanta area in March, Doris Chang sat with her 11-year-old son to learn who the victims were. The news held their faces and their names – Asian faces, Asian names just like his. “My son looked at a picture and he said, ‘that looks like Ā-pó,’ which is my mother,” Chang says. “So, it was really, really hard not to personalize [the shootings] as something that could have happened to anybody in my family, anybody that I know.”