‘A’ is for Atlanta. Asian. Americans.

Ivana Kirkbride
4 min readMar 19, 2021

‘A’ is for…

ATLANTA

ASIAN

AMERICANS

What happened in Atlanta shook me to my core. As my own American experience is deeply rooted in growing up Asian in Arkansas.

During a time when identity was literally labeled as black or white, my family and I had to live in the ‘in-between’. We confused the hell out of everyone. And when people feel confused, sometimes they lash out.

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Ivana Kirkbride

Mother, daughter, wife and friend. Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute.