Today, March 17, is a day many people celebrate Irish heritage, and it’s a difficult day for me. I am of Irish patrilineal descent, and Latinx matrilineal descent, and I often have felt those two sides were at war. Both of my parents were working-class children of immigrants, but the way they experienced being immigrants was very different. While I have written on my Latinx heritage, it is much harder for me to unpack my Irish heritage story, especially because of how strongly it's tied to my father's white supremacy, misogyny, xenophobia, homophobia, transphobia, and anti-AAPI racism. Anti-AAPI Violence in Georgia I began drafting this post before the news broke of the hate-motivated murders of six Asian-American women, along with two other victims, in Georgia by a white male ...