.cathyparkhong's book 'Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning' became COVID canon — and Hong became liberal America’s go-to Asian thinker. cliomiso reports
about the early-pandemic hate crimes . She went on Ibram X. Kendi’s podcast to talk about interracial solidarity. During Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month, more requests rolled in. Sometimes she said “yes,” but she’d also sometimes say “no,” like when a flood of cable-news channels called her up immediately after the massacre in Atlanta.
I asked Hong why she felt compelled to step into a more public role at all, despite her repeated assertions that it didn’t come naturally to her. She told me that early in the pandemic, she felt concerned about the rise of hate crimes against Asian Americans and the ways in which the reporting on the topic felt anonymous. As a writer, Hong felt she could “bring blood and feelings and emotions and intellect” into what was happening.
; the danger is less that we won’t be seen and more how those in power will abuse our new visibility. There are moments intoo, that feel of a very specific time or ethos, such as when Hong talks about Asian self-hatred, which even she acknowledges in the book may be “on its way out with my generation.”
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