💖 Digital AAPI resource guide 💗
Last Updated: November 6, 2022
Sharing Link: http://bit.ly/DigitalAAPIresourceguide | Credit: @miarubin3
Made for myself, for my fellow AAPI bbs, for any other QPOC who need a rest from free education labor. Feel free to share this ever-growing resource.
If you consider yourself a white ally and/or my friend please go through this doc.
Please keep our communities cop-free, please support artists and give them their flowers, please read, please acknowledge harm, please listen, please watch, please donate when you can, and please take care. Thank you to all who created resource guides during this time. I will continue to update this guide.
Direct donations via Venmo will be split evenly between organizations listed below and AAPI organizers in need. Venmo: @Mia-Rubin
Please see Digital AAPI Resource Guide Donations Distribution to see donation updates.
If you’ve created resources and they are not listed below, feel free to send them to: rubim196@newschool.edu
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🔥 - Important, relevant, and time-sensitive content
Fall / Winter 2022 - | 🔥 Multiple Dates - Bystander Intervention / Conflict De-Escalation / Workshop for People Experiencing Anti-Asian Harassment Fall + Winter Events: November 10, Archives Open House, LGBT Center November 12, API Rainbow Parents 10th Anniversary Conference: Building Future Together November 12, Infinite Beginnings: Artist Line Second Collection Launch, Wing on Wo & Co. |
Atlanta Resources | Support: Gofundme’s page of verified AAPI fundraisers - compiled list spanning Atlanta fundraisers, to individuals in need, to small business and local community support. Center for Pan Asian Community Services Asian American Advocacy Fund - Asian Americans united for a more progressive Southeast NAPAWF Atlanta - Building power in AAPI communities Maomi Bookstore - Chinese bookstore and cafe |
Keep Our Communities Safe | Resources:🔥 Soar Over Hate, an organization that provides AAPI with defense devices, free therapy sessions, and scholarships to AAPI youth. Activate:🔥 Cop-Free Communities: Safety Resources
🔥 Hollaback! Guide: The 5 D’s to Bystander Intervention 🔥 Protect Chinatown - Request a chaperone or volunteer as a chaperone 🔥 Main Street Patrol - Help keep Flushing Safe. Volunteer here. Center for Anti Violence Education - Hosts free de-escalation & defense classes for AAPI & allies
End Deportations:Southeast Asian Defense Project Southeast Asian Freedom Network (SEAFN) Reporting Hate Crimes:🔥 Stop AAPI Hate |
Support Chinatown: | 🔥 Protect Chinatown - Request a chaperone or volunteer as a chaperone Send Chinatown Love - Providing relief efforts to small, off-the-grid businesses in Chinatown NYC suffering from the impacts of Covid-19 Welcome to Chinatown - A grassroots project supporting NYC Chinatown businesses Think! Chinatown - Building intergenerational community in NYC Chinatown through civic engagement, storytelling, & the arts W.O.W. Project - Women, queer, and trans led community initative using art & activism to grow and protect NYC Chinatown’s creative culture in a time of rapid change Chinatown Art Brigade - A cultural collective of artists, media makers and activists creating art and media to advance social justice Shop Wing on Wo & Co - Oldest operating store in NYC’s Chinatown bringing you the best quality porcelain ware since 1890 Eat at Kuih Cafe Chinatown Pretty - Celebrating the street style of seniors living in Chinatown Shop Cranes for Change - you can also donate as payment Shop Sticky Locals - a collective of artists creating artwork in collaboration with local favorites to fundraise and raise awareness for AAPI charities, non-profits, and businesses affected due to COVID-19. |
Donate & Support | 🔥 Donate + Support Make the Home of James and Grace Lee Boggs a Museum - The James and Grace Lee Boggs Foundation seeks funds to preserve the historic home of James and Grace Lee Boggs on the Eastside of Detroit as a community museum to honor the Boggses’ revolutionary lives and works. The Boggs Museum will be a dynamic site of history, culture, and activism, offering lessons from past struggles for today’s movement builders working to reimagine everything and shake the world with a new dream. 61 Ways to Donate In Support of Asian Communities Support Sex Workers:🔥 Listen to interview with Yves Tong Nguyen of Red Canary Song Red Canary Song - Organizing with migrant & Asian sex workers in NYC Butterfly - Asian and Migrant Sex Worker Support Network The Sex Workers Outreach Project Brooklyn SWAN Vancouver - Culturally-Specialized Supports & Advocacy for Im/Migrant Women Engaged in Indoor Sex Work Support AAPI Women:WOMANKIND - We work with survivors of gender-based violence to rise above trauma NAPAWF - National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum Asian American Feminist Collective Nation-wide Support:List of resources compiled by @Sasponella and @Minstantramen Asian American Curriculum Project PAFC (Philippine American Foundation for Charities) NYC Support:🔥 Heart of Dinner - Delivering love to elders in NYC, 1 meal at a time 🔥 Protect Chinatown - Request a chaperone or volunteer as a chaperone CAAV NYC - Grassroots organization dedicated to organizing NYC’s Asian immigrant communities towards racial, gender, and economic justice Mekong NYC - Community-based organization that serves the Southeast Asian community in the Bronx and throughout New York City. Protect Flushing - Aiming to protect Flushing from gentrification and displacement Apex for Youth - Connecting volunteers with underserved Asian & immigrant youth in New York City Asian American Federation - Empowering NYC’s Asian American community since 1989 MA Support:CPA Boston - A grassroots community organization working for full equality and empowerment of the Chinese in the Greater Boston area and beyond. CA Support:CCED - Build grassroots power across low-income Asian immigrant and refugee communities in LA SEACA LA - Works with Southeast Asian youth and their communities on leadership, dev, education, advocacy, and community organizing 501(c)(3) KIWA - Organizing Korean & Latinx workers in LA to build power! Oakland Vietnamese Community Center APEN - Asian Pacific Environmental Network | Fighting for environmental justice for all people Support AAPI Writing & Journalism:Asian American Journalists Association AAPI Journalists Therapy Relief Fund Asian American Writers Workshop |
Queer & Trans AAPI | Donate / Support:Yoon Grace Na’s Local Composting Site in Ridgewood Q-Wave - Serving LBQ women, trans women, trans men, and GNC/NB folks of API descent Gapimny - Empowering Queer & Trans Asian Pacific Islanders to create positive change since 1990 Salga - Vibrant Desi community based in NYC that offers community and safe spaces for all South Asian queer community Sige! - LGBTQIA+ Filipino collective fighting for liberation of LGBTQIA+ Filipinos everywhere Yellow Jackets Collective - YJC is a chosen family of yellow queers collaborating towards radical futures BUFU - Co-creating experimental models of organizing & making NQAPIA - The National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance, a federation of LGBT AAPI organizations. Mental Health Resources:NYC Anti-Violence Project - Serving NYC’s LGBTQ & HIV-affected communities through free counseling, legal services, organizing & advocacy. |
Acknowledge Harm: | Watch:🔥 A Conversation between Grace Lee Boggs & Dr. Angela DavisEducational Reads:🔥 It’s Time to Talk About Black-Asian Solidarity by Lindsay Peoples Wagner 🔥 In Memory of Latasha Harlins January 1, 1976 - March 16, 1991 The Model Minority Myth pits Asian versus Black & props up white supremacy A Letter To Chinese Canadians on Anti-Black Racism ‘Model Minority’ Myth Again Used as a Racial Wedge by Kat Chow A History of Black & Asian Solidarity Support: |
Support AAPI | Terisa Siagatonu (she/her) - Sāmoan | Poet | Speaker | Educator | Organizer Eda - Writer Ruth Chan - Illustrator of children’s books and comics and some other things too Chanel Miller (she/her) - Author of Know My Name Jezz Chung (she/they) - Writer Jess X. Snow (they/them) - Writer, director, artist Kay Ulanday Barrett - Poet, cultural strategist Michelle Kim - Author of Wake Up (Fall 2021) Kit Yan - Writer of plays but make it trans Singa Hon - Illustrator and artist Mimi Zhu (they/them) - Writer, “BE NOT AFRAID OF LOVE” coming 2022 Mary Kang - Photographer Anna Yuh Kyung - Korean adoptee based in Oakland, CA. Connecting with the Asian community through clay Alex Myung (he/they) - Animator Harry Trinh - Designer, Head of Creative at Welcome to Chinatown Than(ushka) - DJ | Activist Samuel Han - Photographer, Videographer Mengwen Cao - Photographer Mischelle Moy (she/her) - Photographer Alice Sparkly Kat - Astrologer and author of #PostcolonialAstrology Kyoko Takenaka - Artist Sarulo Bao - 小宝 🌟 illustrator 🌟 she/her |
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| 🔥 Amplify Asian Voices Readings and Resources by @jezzchung🔥 We Are Still Here - On Asian Resilience by Gabrielle Widjaja🔥 Asian American Writers WorkshopList of educational resources, organizations, and bookstores by We Need Diverse Books (a non-profit and a grassroots organization that advocates for changes in the publishing industry to produce and promote literature that reflects and honors the lives of all young people) Articles / Online Reads:🔥 The Mothers and Daughters Fighting to Keep Chinatown Alive Why So Many Asian Americans Are Learning Remotely by Anya Kamenetz How to Start Conversations About Anti-Asian Racism With Your Family by Anna Sirianni 🔥 Ignoring The History of Anti-Asian Racism is Another Form of Violence by Connie Wun My Secret Affair with Chinese Takeout by Jenny Liao Why This Wave of Anti-Asian Racism Feels Different by Morgan Ome Teach and Transform instagram run by anti-bias, anti-racist educator and consultant Liz Kleinrock We Need to Talk About the Fetishization of Asian Women Hollywood, Anti-Asian Hate and Me by Charlotte Mei We Lead The World’s Liberation: A Conversation with Sex Work Activists SX Noir and Kate Zen Constellations of Care: On Small Scale Solidarities by Calin Amber, Margarita Ren Cloaked Science: The Yan Reports Books and Educational Resources:A Reading List to Celebrate Asian Authors, From Members of TIME’s Asian Community - All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung - The Next American Revolution by Grace Lee Boggs - Living for Change by Grace Lee Boggs - Emergent Strategy by Adrienne Marie Brown - On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong - Afro Asia by Fred Ho and Bill V. Mullen - Staying Alive: Women, Ecology, and Development by Vandana Shiva - The Melancholy of Race by Anne Anlin Cheng - The Making of Asian America: A History by Erika Lee - Queer Marxism of Two Chinas by Petris Liu - The Collected Schizophrenias by Esme Weiju Wang - Grass by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim - Troubling Borders: An Anthology of Art and Literature by Southeast Asian Women in the Diaspora - Crying in H-Mart by Michelle Zauner Recommended Reading Material by Teach and Transform: (list 1) (list 2) Check out the Asian Author Alliance and their Asian Authors Directory Bookstores to Support:[ Online ] Asian American Curriculum Project’s Online Bookshop [ Washington D.C ] Tiny bookstores for & by PoC. [ Berkeley, CA ] Major source for AAPI literature and resources since 1982. EBMS / Eastwind Books Multicultural Services is a 501(3)c non-profit dedicated to the promotion and accessibility of Asian American and Ethnic Multicultural Literature (Donate here!) [ San Francisco, CA ] Filipino Books & Culture [ Los Angeles, CA ] Independent Black-Owned Bookshop in LA A community pop-up in LA founded by Miriam Chan in an effort to support women and poc writers [ Atlanta, GA ] Chinese bookstore and cafe [ Brooklyn, NY ] An intersectional Feminist community bookstore and coffee shop [ Jacksonville, FL ] A bookstore offering a diverse range of books reflecting the incredible cultural melting pot of what America represents |
Watch | 🔥 We Need to Talk About Anti-Asian Hate PBS Special Coverage + PBS Documentary “Asian Americans” How the Media’s Description of Asian Women Harms Them Janaya Future Khan: Violence Against Asian Americans Poet and Author, Ocean Vuong, on the power of language and violence of men in US culture We Are Not a Stereotype by Smithsonian APA - a video series for classroom teachers + caregivers who teach; explores and challenges the complexity surrounding the term Asian Pacific American, breaking it down into topics that span multiple timelines, geographies, and identities. |
ListenPodcasts, Playlists | NPR:🔥 Nicole Chung - How to Start Conversations about Anti-Asian Racism with Your Family 🔥 NPR Code Switch - Screams and Silence Spotify:Grace Lee Boggs - A Century in the World Ocean Vuong - A Life Worthy of Our Breath Still Processing - Cathy Park Hong Still Processing - Asian-Americans Talk About Racism, and We Listen (Part 1) Still Processing - Asian-Americans Talk About Racism, and We Listen (Part 2) Project Voice by Jessica Nguyen |
History | White Mobs Attack Filipino Farmworkers in Watsonville, California (On this day - Jan 19, 1930) Undocumented Asians in Shadow of DACA by Anh Do Anti-Asian Racism and Discrimination Did Not Start With Covid-19 (part 1) Anti-Asian Racism and Discrimination Did Not Start With Covid-19 (part 2) |
Take Care: | Therapy Resources:Reduced Fee Therapy & Support for Filipino/a/x & asian community AAPI Journalists Therapy Relief Fund Asians American Peer Counseling API Healer Network and Therapy Resource List Mental Health Resources:Asian Mental Health Collective Calamansi Care - Support & community education on death, dying, and grief by @ftwsammie (they/them) Read:Practicing Boundaries when the News Feed Feels Emotionally Overwhelming Meditation Resources:Strawberry Swing (Frank Ocean) Piano Cover |