By Caitlin Gibson, The Washington Post, October 13, 2021
Patty Sang sat alone in the living room of her Seattle apartment, riveted by the breaking evening news on her television. A White gunman had just murdered eight people — six of them women of Asian descent — in a rampage that spanned three spas near Atlanta.
It was March 16, one year into a global pandemic that incited a torrent of anti-Asian racism and violence, and Patty, a 48-year-old Korean American actor, instructor and solo parent, was consumed by despair. Then her 14-year-old daughter, Kayla Sang, walked into the room.
Patty hesitated before she spoke. The facts of what had happened were so disturbing that she could hardly bear to share them. But this was the world her teenager was living in. “Have you heard about this?” Patty asked.
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