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stepping closer to them: HOW THE ATLANTA SPA SHOOTINGS—THE VICTIMS, THE SURVIVORS—TELL A STORY OF AMERICA by May Jeon Photographed by An Rong Ju

3/14/2022

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READ MAY JEONG'S VANITY FAIR ARTICLE HERE

We mourn the eight lives lost, yet I don't know any one of them. It's a complicated issue to mourn lives of people who would have likely not chosen to be in political space with me. My RCS colleague, Yves, reminds me: they did not choose to be martyrs. We shouldn't politicize their identities. And yet, I will stand on a stage in two days and say their names, the names of the dead, with the hope of granting the living a better chance at a more equitable life.

May Jeong, journalist who wrote this NYTimes article last March shortly after the shooting, traveled to Atlanta to unearth the crevices and corners of the lives of the victims and survivors and her own family rooms of memories and our collective history as Asian Americans.

READ MAY JEONG'S VANITY FAIR ARTICLE HERE
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