Why you haven’t heard from us

Note: I cannot and do not claim to know every Asian American’s story and the reasons behind why they’ve chosen to share or not share their struggle with the recent news, but I hope to help build a better understanding by cobbling together pieces of my own experience as a Chinese woman raised in North America.

I’ve seen the news as of late — the brutal, even fatal attacks on elderly Asian Americans across America. Most recently, six Asian women were killed in a series of attacks in northwest Georgia when a gunman decided to open fire at three different…