A little over a week ago I posted on instagram about an interview I did with Youngmi Mayer and Brian Park, creators and cohosts of the podcast Feeling Asian. We recorded it weeks ago, but the episode came out on March 17, the day after six Asian women were murdered in massage parlors near Atlanta, a hate crime that took eight lives. If it was any other interview, I probably would have skipped the self-promotion (which I am still stupidly uncomfortable with) but honestly I was grateful for the timing. In the midst of a devastating week that threatened to flatten the richness of Asian Americans into easily digestible, short-attention-span stories of tragedy filled with stereotypes, it was comforting to point people to a long conversation among three Asians where our anxiety, intelligence, joy, and complexity are all in play. It felt right. I just want people to see us. Posting about it felt like a small way to take people's attention--whether it was due to guilt or curiosity or a real desire to know more--and direct it towards the f*cking vibrancy of Asian American life.