Atlanta Archives - Public Seminar

Taking stock in the wake of the Atlanta spa murders

April 15, 2021 • by Jenny Choi

_____ On Tuesday, March 16, a white man killed eight people – among them six Asian American women – at a massage parlor in Georgia. Almost a week later, the 911 caller’s desperately hushed pleadings won’t leave my head. When I replay the woman’s voice – turning hard, Korean corners on hanging ...

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The Atlanta and Boulder Mass Shootings

Past Present Podcast, Episode 273

March 30, 2021 • by Nicole Hemmer, Natalia Mehlman Petrzela and Neil J. Young

Here are some links and references mentioned during this week’s show: As public spaces reopen, so too have mass shootings returned. Neil referred to this Slate piece about the coverage of the Atlanta shootings, and Natalia cited Melissa Jeltsen’s article in The Cut, her own essay about massage in Nursing Clio, ...