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On Tuesday night, a year-old man named Robert Aaron Long allegedly went on a deadly ram at three Atlanta spas, killing eight people, including six Asian women. This idea is ludicrous to many who have observed the surge in racist violence against Asian Americans during the pandemic: in the past year, there have been 3, reported incidents of anti-Asian violence, roughly of which took place during alone, according to the group Stop AAPI Hate.
Women make up the vast majority of those attacked. And some argue that it is equally absurd to exclude discussion of anti-sex-work sentiment from the conversation about these most recent attacks on the Asian community.
Advocates say this reveals the way racism, sexism and anti-sex-work sentiment work together to produce anti-Asian violence: no matter what, they say, his crime was ultimately one against sex workers. The conflation of massage parlors and sex workers without any nuance is very specific to anti-Asian racism against Asian women.
Red Canary Song was founded in the wake of the death of Yang Song, a massage parlor worker in Flushing, Queens, who fell four stories on to the sidewalk in November during a New York police department vice sting.
Two months earlier, she had been arrested and charged with prostitution; during the November raid, police were attempting to arrest her again for allegedly engaging in sex work. Before her death she told her family that she had been sexually assaulted by a man posing as an undercover police officer. Advocates say it also fuels the stigma and moralization directed toward their work, which often in targeted violence.
In Toronto, for example, a law forbids owners and workers at body rub parlors from locking doors to individual rooms and cubicles.
Lam said this has left some workers vulnerable to robbery, harassment and assault, as well as hesitant to call the police for fear of being criminalized themselves. A report published by Butterfly found that over half of workers at these businesses have experienced some kind of threat to their safety at work.
Last year, the city also formed an Asian hate crime taskforceleading many people to fear that increased policing would result in the criminalization of other marginalized communities. They are facing multiple layers of oppression.
Atlanta spa shootings. This article is more than 4 months old. Advocates for sex workers say the spa attacks combined sexism and toxic Asian stereotypes. A makeshift memorial outside of the Gold Spa in Atlanta on Wednesday. Marie Solis. Thu 18 Mar .
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