AADS Brown Bag: The Atlanta Shootings: One Year Later

Last March, 8 lives were lost in a series of shootings at 3 Atlanta-area spas. As we continue to witness devastating acts of violence against Asian women, let us gather and confront the historical patterns at play. Violence against Asian people-both before and during the COVID-19 pandemic-reflect a longer, more imperial history. How has US military occupation contributed to the dehumanization of Asian people? Why is it that Asian women remain subject to the deadly effects of sexualization? How do the shootings intertwine with a longer history of US empire and US evangelicalism? To inform our organizing after Atlanta, what can we learn from efforts to decriminalize sex work and how does this work align with anti-carceral movements for abolition?

Dr. Anna Storti (Assistant Professor of Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies, Duke University) will moderate a discussion with three experts on these topics:

Kate D'Adamo (Partner, Reframe Health and Justice)
Dr. Vernadette Gonzalez (Professor of American Studies, the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa)

Dr. Helen Jin Kim (Assistant Professor of American Religious History, Emory University)

With support from The Erotics of Race and Coloniality Seminar in the Program of Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, and John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute.

Preregistration is required, and only those with a duke.edu email address will be able to register.
http://tinyurl.com/aads-atlanta-oneyearlater

If you need a disability-related accommodation, contact: Asian American and Diaspora Studies (dukeaasp@duke.edu) by March 8, 2022.