Minor Feelings: A Reckoning on Race and the Asian Condition

by Cathy Park Hong

Bare life, writes Giorgio Agamben, is the sheer biology of life as opposed to the way life is lived within the protections of society; where the person is “stripped of every right by virtue of the fact that anyone can kill him without committing homicide; he can save himself only in perpetual flight.”

Our feelings are overreactions because our lived experiences of structural inequity are not commensurate with their deluded reality.

Pitted against each other, we are enraged separately, and grieve separately, and feel frustration separately,