Asian American journalist attacked outside her home

New Yorker staff writer Jiayang Fan.

The everyday task of taking out the trash shouldn't be such a big deal, but for journalist Jiayang Fan, it became a frightful and sobering incident.

Jiayang Fan, 38, lives in New York City and is a staff writer for The New Yorker. Writing about anti-Asian hate is one thing; experiencing it something altogether different. The abstract immediately become reality; intellectualism becomes emotional.

In a Twitter thread last week, Fan describes the experience that has become all too familiar for AANHPI.

Although the verbal attack didn't become physical, it unnerved Fan, a seasoned journalist.

Unfortunately, the anti-Asian hate incidents and crimes that began to surge with the onset of the coronavirus pandemic three years ago appears to be continuing making many AANHPI anxious and fearful of going out in public, taking public transit or going to the grocery store.

According to the FBI Hate Crimes Report, crimes of hate against Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders rose  in 2021 by a whopping 167%, the biggest increase among ethnic groups.

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