Three Ways to Support the AAPI Community
The onslaught of media coverage, social media stories, and shocking footage regarding Anti-Asian racism have left me feeling angry, overwhelmed, and helpless, and I’m sure I’m not the only one. Sharing resources, thought-provoking content and news updates via Instagram Stories has been a healthy outlet for me and a constructive way to spread awareness, but I realize how it can be difficult for people to keep track of all the resources they come across. That’s why I created this blog post to host the organizations and campaigns that would be impactful and tangible ways for anyone to demonstrate their support for the AAPI community.
I will continue updating this as I come across more campaigns and resources, so feel free to share this with your friends and family, and comment below if you think there are any other organizations or campaigns that I should add to this list. Thanks in advance for reading this and doing your part to support the AAPI community ❤️
Donate.
Tap below for a complete list of gofundme verified fundraisers related to the deadly March 16 Atlanta spa shooting.
2. Stop AAPI Hate
“In response to the alarming escalation in xenophobia and bigotry resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, the Asian Pacific Planning and Policy Council (A3PCON), Chinese for Affirmative Action (CAA), and the Asian American Studies Department of San Francisco State University launched the Stop AAPI Hate reporting center on March 19, 2020. The center tracks and responds to incidents of hate, violence, harassment, discrimination, shunning, and child bullying against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the United States.” You can donate to Stop AAPI Hate to support their efforts to track and respond to the surge of racism and xenophobia.
3. #HATEISAVIRUS Community Action Fund
#HATEISAVIRUS is a “nonprofit community of mobilizers and amplifiers to dismantle racism and hate.” Their newest initiative is to raise $1M to give back to national and “local organizations with programs that serve various short-term and long-term goals of our community, including mental health services, improving safety & care for our elderly and efforts that build solidarity and consider the effects on other BIPOC communities.”
Advocate.
If you’re a manager or are looking for ways to advocate for Asian mental health in the workplace as we process this week's trauma, please consider sending your company leadership this brief manager resource guide for supporting Asian employees.
2. Hello Collective’s AAPI Month Offerings: Workshops and Training
Hello Collective, a diversity, equity, and inclusion consulting firm is offering workshops and trainings to teach teams how “to hold space for the joy, pain, culture, and history of multiple Asian and Pacific Islander experiences to emerge,” which cover a variety of topics including:
AAPI Employee Empowerment Sessions
Understanding the Model Minority Myth + the Impact of Stereotyping
(3) Moving from Performative Allyship to Actionable Solidarity
3. Call on President Biden for Emergency Safety and Relief for Asian American and Pacific Islander Communities
Drafted by a national coalition of AAPI organizations and activists, the AA Leaders Table is pushing President Biden's administration for support for the policy proposals listed in the letter as well as funding requests to help better support and protect the AAPI community with solutions that are also in solidarity and supportive of other BIPOC communities.
They are still collecting sign ons from organizations, businesses, and the like.
Learn.
Watch — “ASIAN AMERICANS”
“Asian Americans is a five-hour film series that [chronicles] the contributions, and challenges of Asian Americans, the fastest-growing ethnic group in America. Personal histories and new academic research cast a fresh lens on U.S. history and the role Asian Americans have played in it.”
2. Read — “MINOR FEELINGS: AN ASIAN AMERICAN RECKONING'“
“With sly humor and a poet’s searching mind, Hong uses her own story as a portal into a deeper examination of racial consciousness in America today. This intimate and devastating book traces her relationship to the English language, to shame and depression, to poetry and female friendship. A radically honest work of art, Minor Feelings forms a portrait of one Asian American psyche—and of a writer’s search to both uncover and speak the truth.”
