Asian American Arts Workers Protest White Supremacy

A group of Asian American arts workers taking the collective moniker StopDiscriminAsian (SDA) penned an open letter protesting racism and xenophobia which has been exacerbated by the pandemic; expressing support for marginalized communities, including immigrants and elders; and calling for the decriminalization of sex work and an alternative to policing. The letter, which to date has more than eight hundred signatories, comes amid an intense wave of anti-Asian violence, including the killings of six Asian women working at Atlanta-area massage parlors and the brutal sidewalk beating of an Asian woman in New York.

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