Asian American & Pacific Islander Rights
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Create + advocate for policies that affect the AAPI community
Build AAPI political power across the nation
Center AAPI communities in climate change solutions
Defend Affirmative Action
End detention + family separation policies
End hate crimes against Asian Americans
End workplace + pay discrimination
Protect Asian American communities from gentrification
Prioritize + uplift AAPI businesses
Strengthen our healthcare system + expand data collection for AAPI health
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Benefits orgs fighting for the rights of AAPI communities
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“Unless we know ourselves and our history, and other people and their history, there is really no way that we can have positive kinds of interaction where there is real understanding.”
Yuri Kochiyama
Civil Rights Activist
DIVE DEEPER + ACT NOW
Immediate Actions To Take:+
- Start Here: Anti-Asian Violence Resources
- Sign these petitions to Stop Asian Hate — here
- Attend a Training: Free Bystander Intervention Trainings from Right To Be & Asian Americans Advancing Justice — sign up here
- Asian Americans Advancing Justice are tracking hate — tell your story and/or read others' stories
Organizations To Support + Follow:+
- AAPI Women Lead
- AAPI Progressive Action
- APIENC
- Asian Americans Advancing Justice
- Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund
- Asian Law Caucus
- Asian Mamas Working in the Arts
- Asian Mental Health Collective
- Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance
- Asian Pacific Environmental Network
- Asian Prisoner Support Committee
- Center for Asian Pacific Women
- Chinese Progressive Association
- Kollaboration
- NAKASEC
- National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum
- People’s Collective
- Red Canary Song
- Stop AAPI Hate
Educate Yourself + Keep Showing Up:+
- Articles —
- Read and support Banana Magazine
- 5 Asian American Writers + Creatives You Should Know for AAPI Awareness Month (2018) by Mia Burcham — Bitch Media
- 12 AAPI Organizations To Support Amid Increasing Anti-Asian Violence by Rachel Charlene Lewis — Bitch Media
- A Conversation on Asian Male Masculinity — Banana Magazine
- A Year After the Atlanta Shootings, Asian American Women Grapple With Continued Violence and How To Heal — Ms. Magazine
- Allowed to Imagine: What We Lose When Migrant Folks Aren't Able to Create by Tina Vasquez — Bitch Media
- America’s Long History of Scapegoating its Asian Citizens by Nina Strochlic — National Geographic
- Andrew Yang, It's Not On Asian Americans to Prove Their "Americanness" by Morgan Sung — Bitch Media
- Anti-Asian Racism Isn't New by Qian Julie Wang — NYTimes
- Asian American + Pacific Islander Policy Brief — AAPI Progressive Action
- Asian Americans Were Targeted in nearly 3,800 hate incidents in the past year by Christine Hauser — NYTimes
- Covid-19 Fueling Anti-Asian Racism and Xenophobia Worldwide — HRW
- Kamala Harris Presents a Political Paradox for South Asian Voters by Iman Sultan — Bitch Media
- One Size Does Not Fit All: Data and Everyday Racial Labels Mask the Struggles of Many Asian-American and Pacific Islanders by Farah Z. Ahmad and Christian E. Weller and National Journal — The Atlantic
- One Year After Atlanta Shootings, Why We’re Still Struggling With Anti-AAPI Hate by Cynthia Choi, Manjusha Kulkarni, and Russell Jeung — TIME
- Racial Trauma Toolkit — Boston College
- Stop AAPI Hate National Report, Aug 2020 — Stop AAPI Hate
- Stop Treating Violence Against Asian American Women as Just a Racism Problem — Ms. Magazine
- Tales of Racism and Sexism, From 3 Leading Asian-American Women by Alisha Haridasani Gupta — NYTimes
- The Truth Behind Indian American Exceptionalism by Arun Venugopal — The Atlantic
- The U.S. Is Seeing a Massive Spike in Anti-Asian Hate Crimes — The Cut
- Violence Against Asian Americans Is on the Rise—But It’s Part of a Long History by Andrew R. Chow — TIME
- Violence Against Asian American Women Is Rooted in More Than Just ‘Hate’ by Nicole Chung — The Atlantic
- Why Has There Been a Spike of Anti-Asian Hate? by Jorge Ramos — NYTimes
- Why This Wave of Anti-Asian Racism Feels Different by Morgan Ome — The Atlantic
- Books —
- A Nail the Evening Hangs On by Monica Sok
- Aiiieeeee!: An Anthology of Asian American Writers edited by Frank Chin, Jeffery Paul Chan, Lawson Fusao Inada, Shawn Wong
- All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung
- American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang
- Anna K by Jenny Lee
- Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
- Days of Distraction by Alexandra Chang
- Dear America, Notes of an Undocumented Citizen by Jose Antonio Vargas
- Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets & Advice for Living Your Best Life by Ali Wong
- Deceit and Other Possibilities by Vanessa Hua
- Freelove by Sia Figiel
- from unincorporated territory [guma'] by Craig Santos Perez
- Heartbeat of the Struggle: The Revolutionary Life of Yuri Kochiyama by Diance C. Fujino
- How Much of These Hills Is Gold by C Pam Zhang
- How To Pronounce Knife by Souvankham Thammavongsa
- I Hotel by Karen Tei Yamashita
- If I Had Your Face by Frances Cha
- If They Come for Us by Fatimah Asghar
- Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu
- Little Fires Everywhere by Celese Ng
- Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls by T Kira Madden
- Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong
- Miracle Creek by Angie Kim
- Native Speaker by Chang Rae-Lee
- On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
- Orientalism by Edward W. Said
- Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
- Parachutes by Kelly Yang
- Passage West by Rishi Reddi
- See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love by Valarie Kaur
- Severance by Ling Ma
- The Making of Asian America by Erika Lee
- The Bride Test by Helen Hoang
- The Body Papers by Grace Talusan
- The Farm by Joanne Ramos
- The Good Immigrants: How the Yellow Peril Became the Model Minority by Madeline Y. Hsu
- The Groom Will Keep His Name And Other Vows I've Made About Race, Resistance, and Romance by Matt Ortile
- The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
- The Latinos of Asia: How Filipino Americans Break the Rules of Race by Anthony Christian Ocampo
- The Leavers by Lisa Ko
- The Library of Legends by Janie Chang
- The Marriage Game by Sara Desai
- The Myth of the Model Minority by Rosalind S. Chou + Joe R. Feagin
- The Resisters by Gish Jen
- The Souls of Yellow Folk: Essays by Wesley Yang
- The Tenth Muse by Catherine Chung
- The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston
- What We Carry by Maya Shanbhag Lang
- Yellow Peril! by John Kuo Wei Tchen and Dylan Yeats
- Yolk by Mary H.K. Choi
- Watch —
- Netflix — Celebrating Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders
- Always Be My Maybe — Netflix
- American Pastime — YouTube
- Asian Americans — PBS
- Better Luck Tomorrow — Amazon prime
- Chef’s Table, Season 1 Episode 1 Niki Nakayama — Netflix
- Columbus — YouTube
- Crazy Rich Asians — Hulu
- Little Fires Everywhere — Hulu
- Minari — Available online
- Namesake — HBO Max
- Never Have I Ever — Netflix
- Parasite — Hulu
- Picture Bride —Available online
- Sa-I-Gu — YouTube
- Seoul Searching — Netflix
- The Farewell — YouTube
- The Joy Luck Club — YouTube
- The Tiger Hunter — YouTube
- To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before — Netflix
- Tiger Tail — Netflix
- Listen —
- Asian Americana — Podcast
- Asian Enough — Podcast
- Lisa Ling on Anti-Asian Violence—And the Rising Movement Against It — UNDISTRACTED with Brittany Packnett Cunningham
- Saturday School — Podcast
- Self Evident: Asian American Stories — Podcast
- Southern Fried Asian — Podcast
- The Kollab Cast — Podcast
NOTE: Our focus areas are informed by community input. If there is an issue you'd like to see included or would like to share input, please email us at info@the-outrage.com with questions, comments, or concerns on our 2024 focus areas. We'd love to hear from you.
This is an incomplete and growing list. Last updated Jan 2024.