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Diana Lu is a writer, comedian and scientist in Boston, Massachusetts. Her work has appeared in McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Robot Butt, Slackjaw, Women in Comedy Festival Daily and Plan A Magazine.
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Yang Song and the Long History of Targeting Asian American Sex Workers
Diana Lu - August 28, 2019
To understand her story, we have to go back to the beginning of Asian immigration exclusion.
“A woman begins to fall.”
This is how the New York Times depicts Yang Song — just before her death, a half-naked body frozen in trauma.