Stand With the AAPI Community: Resources and Actions
This resource list was compiled by Iman Maani, Nicole Eigbrett, and Thressa Zimmerman.
Resources to help educate on how to be a better ally to the Asian and AAPI (Asian American and Pacific Islander) community and educate about anti-Asian bias, hate crimes, and violence.
Organizations
Red Canary Song (https://www.redcanarysong.net/)
Chinatown Community for Equitable Development (CCED) LA (https://www.ccedla.org)
Stop AAPI Hate (https://stopaapihate.org)
Asian Pacific Policy and Planning Council (A3PCON) (http://www.asianpacificpolicyandplanningcouncil.org)
Chinese for Affirmative Action (CAA) (https://caasf.org)
Asian Americans Advancing Justice (https://www.advancingjustice-aajc.org/)
Advancing Justice Atlanta (https://www.advancingjustice-atlanta.org)
Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence (ATASK - New England) (https://www.atask.org/)
Asian American Resource Workshop (AARW - Boston) (https://www.aarw.org/)
Chinese Progressive Association (CPA - Boston and San Francisco) (https://cpaboston.org/ and https://cpasf.org/)
Asian Creators and Accounts on Instagram
@kimsaira
@stopaapihate
@advancing_justice_atl
@aaajalc
@napawf_ati
@amandangoncguyen
@annie_wu_22
@aarwboston
@asiansformentalhealth
@teachandtransform
Donate
GoFundMe: Support the AAPI Community Fund (https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-aapi-community-fund)
Stop AAPI Hate (https://stopaapihate.org)
Asian Americans Advancing Justice (https://www.advancingjustice-aajc.org/)
Red Canary Song (https://www.redcanarysong.net/)
Advancing Justice Atlanta (https://www.advancingjustice-atlanta.org)
Other ways to donate: Check out the list put together by New York Magazine: www.bit/ly/nymag-aapi
Asian Community Emergency Relief Fund (Boston & New England) (https://asiancdc.org/emergency-relief-fund)
Mental Health Resources
Asian Mental Health Collective (www.asianmhc.org)
SAMHSA National Hotline (800.662.HELP)
National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance (NQAPIA) (www.nqapia.org)
Crisis Text Line: text HOME to 741741
Report Hate Crimes
Books about anti-Asian Racism in America
The making of Asian America: A history – Erika Lee
Driven out: The forgotten war against Chinese Americans – Jean Pfaelzer
Contagious divides: Epidemics and race in San Francisco’s Chinatown – Nayan Shah
Serve the people: Making Asian America in the long sixties – Karen L. Ishizuka
Orientals: Asian Americans in popular culture – Robert G. Lee
Vestiges of war: The Philippine-American war and the aftermath of an imperial drea 1899 – 1999 – Edited by Angel Velasco Shaw and Luis H. Francia
To save the children of Korea: The Cold War origins of Korean adoption – Arissa Oh
The color of success: Asian Americans and the origins of the model minority – Ellen Wu
Works by Asian and Asian-American Authors: Fiction and Nonfiction
Minor feelings: An Asian American reckoning – Cathy Park Hong
If they come for us – Fatimah Asghar
The farm – Joanne Ramos
The vegetarian – Han Kang
Story of your life – Ted Chiang
The woman warrior: Memories of a girlhood among ghosts – Maxine Hong Kingston
Know my name – Emily Miller
First they killed my father - Loung Ung
Pachinko - Min Jin Lee
All You Can Ever Know - Nicole Chung
Other Actions
Do your research and learn about AAPI history, struggles, and successes beyond pop culture. Listen and follow the lead of AAPI organizers and workers in your community. Engage in difficult conversations to dismantle racism. To be better, we must do better.
Practice and learn bystander intervention - check out trainings offered by Hollaback to stop xenophobic harassment: https://www.ihollaback.org/bystanderintervention/
Join mutual aid efforts that build solidarity and safety in your community without the involvement of police (ex. volunteer to be a chaperone for your neighbors who are elderly).
Call your elected officials in your city/town, state, and federal government legislators: ask what they’re doing for the Asian and AAPI community and insist they issue a statement or resolution condemning anti-Asian hate and violence.
Support local Asian-American and AAPI-owned small businesses.