Flyers that the artist Hồng-Ân Trương collected from 2018 announce rallies and calls to advance and unify the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (UNC), where she teaches. The flyers protest systemic racism, police violence, and threats against faculty and students. They express support for a Black doctoral student studying recent Chinese history, Maya Little, who had poured their blood and red ink onto a Confederate statue on campus.For the last twenty years, Trương has been engaged with politics—participating in protests and community organizing and producing texts, photographs, videos, sculptures, performances, and installations that reinvigorate the past and frame history and the present as the intersections of many narratives. Photographs Trương shared with me of her studio reveal piles of large-format negatives and test prints showing protests. A sign in one image reads “Power to the People.”Another shows an Asian man wearing a blazer and holding his bloody head as police officers constrain him.I had three video calls with Trương in February and March of 2021, from which emerged the following text addressing various historical and contemporary forms of activism, visibility, invisibility, identification, and nationalism. At the end, we address the March 16, 2021, murders of eight people in the Atlanta area, six of them Asian women.There was a student at the vigil who read a poem about being chosen first to be on an academic team and last to be your friend. My daughter going to kindergarten is already getting made fun of for her food. It’s just rice and vegetables. Every Asian person could tell you that same story about food. Another aspect of the narratives that have come out around these murders is the class piece. Asian Americans are working class too. These murders [in Atlanta] coalesce around a certain trifecta of white supremacy: racial hierarchies, class vulnerabilities, and the sexualization of Asian women rooted in violent, toxic masculinity and misogynistic ideology. The assumption by the general public is that these women are sex workers. Sex work should be decrimininalized, but this is not about whether or not they are sex workers. What we should be talking about is the fact they were killed because of that perception, and that perception is built into the foundation of American empire and colonialism.