This week's poem, "Who Killed Soek-Fang Sim?" by W.P. was very moving and eye-opening to the personal struggles that Asian American women face as a result of being targeted and discriminated against. The opening line, "I'm one of them, Soek-Fang / Already assuming you're just another..." really touches at the numbness that Asian American women feel as a result of the constant experience of being overlooked and overworked. Because of this, the author is already assuming that this experience will continue to happen regardless of who is in power. Further along in the poem, the lines, "Till every drop of blood, every cell of our being / Is filled with this cancerous doubt: / Are we good enough? Will we ever be good enough?" shed light on Soek-Fang Sim's death. While she died of breast cancer, the more overlooked cause of her death was the constant mental stress that she was succumbed to as a University educator.
I believe that this poem is begging people to understand the horrible result of the discrimination and stress that Asian American women experience in higher education. W.P. is trying to ask people when will be the limit? How many more women have to die in order to get people to take action?
References
Valverde, K.-L. C., & Dariotis, W. M. (2020). Fight the tower: Asian American women scholars resistance and renewal in the academy. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
Linh, Kieu. (2013) Who killed Soek-Fang Sim by Wang Ping. Retrieved from loungemonkey.blogspot.com/2013/03/who-killed-soek-fang-sim-by-wang-ping.html.
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