'We’re just trying to create a better sense of belonging.”
aiming to protect women on public transit by studying harassment and collecting data to inform safety initiatives moving forward. A related bill, introduced by Assembly members Mia Bonta and Dr. Akilah Weber and sponsored by California Healthy Nail Salon, was introduced and would involve a multiyear public education campaign to bring awareness to street harassment.
Meena Pannirselvam, a 23-year-old Malaysian-Indian student at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, had never even been to a vigil before the one she helped organize after the Atlanta shootings. After working at the school’s Multicultural Center and hosting campus-wide talks about the increase in Asian hate, community organizing felt like an organic next step. “There have been instances of discrimination around town and vandalism of Asian businesses,” she says.
Pannirselvam does find that media coverage of racialized violence often centers specifically around Asian Americans, leaving out the experiences of those who don’t identify as such but are still impacted and targeted. “It almost felt alienating to me because I’m very much impacted by this, and I identify as an Asian, but I don't identify myself as an Asian American,” she says.
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