Asian women say shootings point to relentless, racist tropes

 

March 21, 2021



For Christine Liwag Dixon and others, the bloodshed in Georgia — six Asian women among the dead, allegedly killed by a man who blamed his "sexual addiction" — was a new and horrible chapter in the shameful history of Asian women being reduced to sex objects.

"I've had people either assume that I'm a sex worker or assume that, as a Filipino woman, I will do anything for money because they assume that I'm poor," said Dixon, a freelance writer and musician in New York City. "I had an old boss who offered me money for sex once."

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