AAPI RACIAL JUSTICE TOOLKIT
AND RESOURCES TO KEEP THE MOVEMENT GOING
BAC STAFF TOP PICKS FOR MAY 2022
featuring Jess McLeod and Emily Goes
JESS
Ameya Marie Okamoto - @ameyaokamoto, a brilliant young visual artist & activist from NY/Portland/Chicago
Rise: A Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now by Jeff Yang, Phil Yu, and Phillip Wang - @originalspin @angryasianman @wongfuphil
Treya Lam - genius singer/songwriter @treyalam who’s currently on tour & sometimes sings with @resistancerevivalchorus
EMILY
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong
Breathe, a new musical honoring the Filipino frontline healthcare workers, co-conceived by J. Oconer Navarro and Orlando Pabotoy @breathemusical2022
Flee (Hulu) - Flee tells the story of Amin Nawabi as he grapples with a painful secret he has kept hidden for 20 years, one that threatens to derail the life he has built for himself and his soon to be husband.
SELF CARE
Asian American Feminist Antibodies (Care in a Time of Coronavirus)
With the COVID-19 pandemic neither behind us or solely ahead of us, this zine offers a way to make meaning of the coronavirus crisis through long-standing practices of care that come out of Asian American histories and politics.
CCA’s AAPI Mental Health Self Care Resources
CCA provides a helpful starting point for a variety of mental health and self-care resources available for Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.
Asian Mental Health Collective
Asian American Psychological Association
National Asian American Pacific Islander Mental Health Association
South Asian Mental Health Initiative & Network
Asian American Health Initiative
National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance
ANTI RACIST ASIAN HISTORY LEARNING TOOLS
OFFERINGS FOR THOSE DIRECTLY IMPACTED:
A Different Asian American Timeline
“This tool invites us to see both the specificity of group-differentiated oppressions and their relationships to one another within racial capitalism. The importance of studying Asian American history in this way lies in the urgent need to work toward democracy amid rising forms of authoritarianism and nationalism. These dangers are the products of American empire, which has accumulated power and wealth for the few by producing and leveraging divisions among the many. True democracy will depend on our ability to imagine new ways of being that reject racial subjugation and supremacy in favor of ‘a new society based more on human values,’ as the great Grace Lee Boggs put it so well.”
OFERINGS FOR CO-CONSPIRATORS:
Lesson of the Day: ‘Asian Americans Grapple With Tide of Attacks’
"In this lesson, students will learn about what Asian American leaders believe should happen in the wake of recent attacks. Then, they will consider what they can to do to prevent hate crimes.”
“Asian Americans” Documentary (PBS) - Asian Americans is a five-hour film series that will chronicle the contributions, and challenges of Asian Americans, the fastest-growing ethnic group in America.
ANTI RACIST ASIAN ADVOCACY TOOLS
Safety Tips for Those Experiencing or Witnessing Hate
OFFERINGS FOR THOSE DIRECTLY IMPACTED:
Asian American Racial Justice Toolkit
“This toolkit represents the work and thinking of 15 grassroots organizations with Asian American bases living in the most precarious margins of power: low-income tenants, youth, undocumented immigrants, low-wage workers, refugees, women and girls, and queer and trans people. It reflects their experiences with criminalization, deportation, homophobia, xenophobia and Islamo-racism, war, gender violence, poverty, and worker exploitation. All of the modules are designed to begin with people’s lived experiences, and to build structural awareness of why those experiences are happening, and how they are tied to the oppression of others. By highlighting the role of people’s resistance both past and present, the toolkit also seeks to build hope and a commitment to political struggle. In these perilous times, it is an intervention by today’s Asian American activists to restore our collective humanity across our differences through a practice of deep democracy, by looking first to history and then to one another to build a vigilant and expansive love for the people.”
OFFERINGS FOR CO-CONSPIRATORS:
Safe Walks NYC - Safe Walks NYC takes volunteers to walk others that feel unsafe walking alone.
Angry Asian Women and Femmes - Donate to support the free self defense kits that Angry Asian Women and Femmes supplies to Asian Pacific Islander women and femmes in NYC.
Injustice for All: The Rise of the U.S. Immigration Policing Regime - NNIRR
Injustice for All includes eleven essays by HURRICANE members in California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Illinois, North Carolina, Rhode Island, and New York. These reports demonstrate how immigration policing impacts border and rural communities, women, Indigenous people, African and South Asian communities and workers.
COMMUNITY GATHERINGS AND TRAININGS
Please note: Some are virtual!
Here’s Some More Help
Advocacy Resources curated by University of Florida’s Asian Pacific Islander Desi Affairs (APIDA)
South Asian Advocacy Resources curated by DRUM - Desis Rising Up and Moving, a multigenerational, membership led organization of low-wage South Asian and Indo-Caribbean immigrant workers and youth in New York City.
Resources to Help Empower Asian and Pacific Islander Communities curated by Online Master’s in Social Work Degree Programs
Challenging Anti-Asian Bias and Acting as an Ally - a resource database of tools and strategies for Educators and Students to engage in history and background of Asian Americans.
Red Canary Resources - Here is a digital library of resources compiled for the benefit of Asian migrant communities, sex working communities, and the overlap between the two of them.
We hope to hear and share more stories from Asians and Pacific Islanders. Please, get loud. Don’t settle. Our revolutionary is coming.
Created and Compiled by Emily Goes and Mikayla LaShae Bartholomew
BAC May 2022