Evangelical “purity culture,” which aims to repress sex outside of heterosexual marriage, is an important factor in the shootings at three Atlanta massage parlours.
A makeshift memorial to the victims of the Atlanta spa shooting shows both grief and outrage.
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The story of the alleged Atlanta shooter highlights the two most common ways Americans think about compulsive behaviors – considering them the results of temptation and treating them as diseases.
Protesters display placards during a rally held to support Stop Asian Hate, March 21, 2021, in Newton, Mass.
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The invisibility of anti-Asian racism is inextricably connected to the model minority myth, which serves to disguise the violence experienced by Asian American and Asian Canadian women.