The US Immigration System is Failing a Crucial Voice: International Adoptees
By Guest Contributor: Olivia Zalecki It is 2 am and, like the reasonable young person I am, I’ve traded sleep…
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OCA Staff and Interns Demand Accountability in Open Letter
By Guest Contributor: Anonymous For recent college graduates with a passion for social justice, non-profit civil rights organizations make a…
Solidarity is Love: Taking Asian Diasporic Feminists Back to Black and Asian Feminism in the ’60s
By: Victoria M. Huỳnh Nearly eight months into 2020, and there is so much to grieve. We are amidst a…
Lifting the veil on conditional whiteness: A wake-up call to Asian Americans still holding on to the Model Minority Myth
By Guest Contributor: Dorothy He Over the past few months, many non-Black Asian Americans across the country watched as our…
Hmong Americans Are Not Simply “Caught up” in America’s Racial Conflicts. We are Actively Engaged In It.
By Guest Contributor: Kong Pheng Pha Conversations have proliferated on social media debating Hmong Americans’ position in the ongoing racial conflicts…
Working people are uprising. Where are the institutions that are supposed to represent them?
By Guest Contributor: Gregory A. Cendana Working class people, particularly femmes, queers and non-binary folks, impacted disproportionately by a global…
Asians 4 Black Lives: Structural Racism is the Pandemic, Interdependence and Solidarity is the Cure
By Guest Contributor: Asians4BlackLives (@Asians4BlkLives) This essay was originally posted on Medium, and is republished here at the request of…
Talking to my non-Black Asian Mom About Property Destruction
By Guest Contributor: Kim Tran This post is cross-posted from Medium, where it originally appeared. My mom is livid. We’ve…
Asian Americans Must Address Our Complicity in Anti-Blackness
By Guest Contrubitor: Chihiro Isozaki Those of us in the Asian American community often discuss what it means to be…
GAPIMNY Statement on the Murder of George Floyd
By Guest Contributor: GAPIMNY This post was originally published on the GAPIMNY website and is reproduced here at the authors’…
Navigating Intergenerational Trauma Amidst Quarantine
By Guest Contributor: Jenny Lee My family and I do not agree on much — whether that is what food…
Basic Human Decency Should Be Granted Freely: In Response to Andrew Yang
By Guest Contributor: Anouk Yeh On April 1, the Washington Post released an op-ed written by former presidential candidate Andrew…