As you may know, hate crimes, violence, and other racist actions against Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) people have been rising in the US in 2020 and 2021. If you are interested in helping the AAPI community please check out these resources. It can be challenging to know where to begin and I encourage you to think in the Learn - Listen - Speak Up - Show Up framework.
First, take time to Learn about what’s happening in the US. Listen to AAPI voices to hear their stories and experiences. Speak up when you see hate online, in-person, from people you know, and from strangers. Show up, in-person when possible and safe, when allies are needed.
This list is not exhaustive! If you have suggestions for additions I would be happy to add them. Please email me at terrywunder@gmail.com. Thank you for caring!
Anti-Asian Resources for K-12 by by Sarah Park Dahlen, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Master of Library and Information Science Program at St. Catherine University
Learn and Listen:
Read
- Explainer: Anti-Asian racism has been overlooked for a long time. It’s now reached a boiling point. | Vox by Li Zhou
- Explainer: THE HISTORY OF ANTI-ASIAN-AMERICAN VIOLENCE | New Yorker Magazine by Isaac Chotiner
- Educational Resource: FREE Bystander intervention training and print resource | ihollaback.org << Excellent resource!!
- Educational Resource: Recommendations for the Treatment of Asian-American/Pacific Islander Populations - American Psychological Association article that explains myths, misinformation, mental health, oppression, from a care perspective < deeeeep dive
- Educational Resource: PEW Research Center covers a lot of ground on AAPI community info and demographics
- Educational Resource: How to Respond to Coronavirus Racism - Learning for Justice. Using the Interrupt, Question, Educate, and Echo framework.
- Educational Resource: Learn, Ask, Show Up, Speak Up - twitter blog of how to be a good ally
- Educational Resource & History: What Is the Model Minority Myth? | Learning for Justice by Sarah Soonling-Blackburn
- Educational Resource: Asian Americans Are Still Caught in the Trap of the ‘Model Minority’ Stereotype. And It Creates Inequality for All | Time Magazine by Viet Thanh-Nguyen
- Educational Resource and History: The shootings are not surprising — if you’ve been paying attention, Asian American women say | The Lily by Caroline Kitchener (via Gabi Kuhn)
- Jewish Educational Resource: This Passover, We Keep Us Safe | Lilith Magazine by Bekkah Scharf
- History: Why we must talk about the Asian-American story, too | The Undefeated by Brando Simeo Starkey
- History: How the 1982 Murder of Vincent Chin Ignited a Push for Asian American Rights | History Channel by Becky Little
- History: The Muddled History of Anti-Asian Violence | The New Yorker by Hua Hsu
- History: He Came From Thailand to Care For Family. Then Came a Brutal Attack. | The New York Times by Thomas Fuller
- Asian Jews Are Suffering. We Need You to Listen. | Hey Alma by Rebecca Kuss
- Personal Account: What It’s Like When Racism Comes for You | The Atlantic by Elaine Godfrey
- Personal Account: To be an Asian Woman in America | CNN by Jennifer Ho
- Personal Account: As an Asian-American, I'm Tired of Being Racially Gaslit By My Peers | hellogiggles by Jennifer Li
- Personal Account: The Atlanta Shooting and the Dehumanizing of Asian Woman | New Yorker by Jiayang Fan
- Personal Account: Keeping Love Close: What does love look like in a time of hate? Asian and Asian-American photographers respond. | New York Times Essay by Celeste Ng
- Personal Account: My White Adoptive Parents Struggled to See Me as Korean. Would They Have Understood My Anger at the Rise in Anti-Asian Violence? | TIME Magazine By Nicole Chung
Listen
Watch
If you need support:
- 1-877-990-8585 for Asian language access
Speak Up and Show Up:
- Stand Against Hatred https://www.standagainsthatred.org/ < report hate crimes
- Stop AAPI Hate https://stopaapihate.org/ < report hate crimes
- How a hate crime is defined (DOJ)
- Shop Asian American small businesses - literally everywhere
- Volunteer with the East Bay community safety program
- Call Congress 202-225-3121 (this switchboard number can get you to any Rep or Senator) - Does your Representative support federal hate crimes tracking laws? From Roll Call: “The language of the bill introduced last Congress would create locally focused grant programs for hate crime tracking as well as the creation of state hate crime hotlines. Local jurisdictions would have to follow federal hate crime definitions in reporting incidents or be forced to pay back the funds.
- Compassion in Oakland: “They've been organizing community strolling in Oakland Chinatown.” (via Bekkah Scharf)
- Asian Health Services: “Original host of the Chinatown Ambassador program, a public safety patrol program in Oakland Chinatown” (via Bekkah Scharf)
Get Involved With These Organizations:
Georgia:
Everywhere Else:
- NY Mag’s list of 61 places to donate in support of Asian communities
- Support AAPI female identifying professionals - https://apawomen.org/
- local gofundme campaigns < donate. This is where you can make impact immediately and directly to Asian families that need help now.
- GoFundME Support the AAPI Community Fund - this catch all is a one stop donation shop where your dollars will be distributed to a variety of AAPI non profit orgs, including, but not limited to these orgs
- Asian American Legal Defense Fund < donate
- AAPI Women Lead - < donate. “Aims to strengthen the progressive political and social platforms of Asian and Pacific Islander communities in the US through the leadership of self-identified AAPI women and girls.”
- Apex for Youth < donate or volunteer. NYC based nonprofit that recruits professionals to act as mentors and role models for underserved, low-income Asian and other immigrant kids
- Hate is a Virus - < donate and share. education and advocacy, donations that go to a variety of AAPI and BIPOC nonprofit orgs and groups
- Asian American Feminist Collective: https://www.asianamfeminism.org/ (via Gabi Kuhn)
- Asian American Women’s Political Initiative: https://www.aawpi.org/ (via Gabi Kuhn)
- Asian Mental Health Collective - < donate and share. Making mental health accessible, available and affordable to Asian communities
- Asian Pacific Environmental Network (via Bekkah Scharf)
- Asian Prisoner Support Committee (via Bekkah Scharf)
- Vietnamese American Community Center of the East Bay: “Their building was badly damaged in an encampment fire last month. They provide hundreds of culturally-relevant meals to families every week.” (via Bekkah Scharf)
- Red Canary - < donate. grassroots group that supports Asian and migrant sex workers, including legal assitance.
- Caav - NYC based non-profit that helps low-income Asian Americans to fight for fair housing practices, protection, and laws, language access, and youth support
- KIWA - < donate. Koreatown Immigrant Workers Alliance (Los Angeles): Organizing for both Korean and Latino workers and low-wage earners (worker empowerment, wage enforcement, and “raise the wage” campaigns)
- Chinese Progressive Association of San Francisco - < donate. education and organizing for low income and working class Chinese immigrants through health and environmental justice work, workers’ rights, housing, and immigrant rights
- AIWA Asian Immigrant Women Advocates (San Francisco) < donate. - Education, leadership development, and social action for garment, home care, hotel, restaurant, assembly and other low-wage workers, as well as low-income immigrant youth in Oakland
- Dear Asian Youth - education and advocacy < a great instagram to follow!
- Butterfly - an Asian and migrant sex workers support network. There's a petition in support of policy changes to support migrant sex workers from Butterfly, which you can sign as an individual or organization. (via Sydney Ji - thanks for contributing!)
- Make some soondubu jjigae. It’ll make you feel better.
AAPI demographic groups online:
Jewish Non-Profit Organizations that work directly to support AAPI people and Jews of Color (JOC) communities:
- Moishe House < funding and training for young adults to create Jewish communities in cities around the world.
- Jews of Color Initiative < The Jews of Color Initiative is a national effort focused on building and advancing the professional, organizational and communal field for Jews of Color.
- Dimensions < JOC run education and DEI consulting firm led by Yavilah McCoy, an incredible educator and facilitator
- Ammud: the Jews of Color Torah Academy < NYC based, JOC run text-based education non profit
- Bend the Arc’s Selah: Jews of Color Cohort < Leadership development for JOCs
- Mitsui Collective < JOC (specifically Asian-American) run non profit that works to build resilient communities around nature & wellness, embodied Jewish practice, and racial equity.
- Not Free to Desist < JOC run grassroots org working for racial equity, JOC leadership development, anti-racist practices
- Lunar the Jewish Asian Film Project - exploring the intersectionality of Jews and Asians in the US
- Edot Midwest Regional Jewish Diversity Collaborative - “We are a team of Jews of Color who do Jewish community racial justice education and advocacy work with an emphasis on the Midwest US region. Our mission is working to end the effects of contemporary American racism on Midwest Jewish community life. About a quarter of our team are Asian Jews.” -Shahanna McKinney-Baldon, Director
- Mosaic Visions: “Founded and run by Dee Sanae, an African-American and Japanese JOC” (via Jared Jackson)
- Jews in ALL Hues: “Founded by Jared Jackson, Executive Director. DEI coaching, audits, consulting, JOC leadership development, and community engagement” (via Jared Jackson)
- Kesher Pittsburgh: “Kohenet Keshira HaLev Fife is the clergy. She's Filipina and Ashkenazi.” (via Jared Jackson)
Thank you to Mitsui Collective, Not Free To Desist, Leichtag Foundation, Moishe House, Lilith Magazine, Nourish Co, The Jewish Educator Portal, Nahalat Shalom, Moving Traditions, LUNAR, OneTable, Wright Institute and the many other organizations and individuals that shared this resource.
Want to add to this list? Email me: terrywunder@gmail.com