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The suspect in the murders in Atlanta, and others in the police department, news outlets and countless other places, deny these murders were hate crimes motivated by racism. We believe they cannot see this racism because of the invisibility of Asians and discrimination against Asians in the United States, and the accepted normalization of Asian womxn as objects in our society. The suspect’s belief the eradication of Asian womxn would “remove the temptation” of sex addiction is a direct result of a society that hypersexualizes Asian womxn. Sexual objectification is the lived experience of Asian womxn in social and professional settings in this country. At the same time any sex educator will note our remarkable absence in literature and resources on body positive, healthy sexuality. This duality is the Asian American experience of being defined only as it serves the dominant white culture: