Ours is a History of Resistance
By: Karin Wang (@naragirl), Asian Americans Advancing Justice Since we launched “Write Back, Fight Back” two months ago, we have…
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This Mess We’re In: A Vision of the Web after White Supremacy
By: Cayden Mak In 1998, when I was 11, we got the internet at home. My mom, a public school…
Ending “Male Chauvinism” In the Movement: Lessons from the Long Sixties
By: Mark Tseng-Putterman (@tsengputterman) As Asian Americans living in the years of Amy Chua, Ajit Pai, Peter Liang and Nikki…
Reconnecting Heart and Head: Racism, Immigration Policy, WeChat, and Chinese Americans
By: OiYan Poon Smirking when I asked if he had any questions before I turned on my recorder for our…
Why We Must End Caste Oppression
By: Thenmozhi Soundararajan Last year I was ejected four times from the California Board of Education building. My crime was…
How to Organize Asian Americans – Notes from Two Generations
By: Rinku Sen First, realize that Asian America is a thing. Combine a bunch of smaller groups (who hated or…
How Grace Lee Boggs Changed My Life (and Maybe Yours Too)
By: Scott Kurashige Twenty years ago, I wrote to Grace Lee Boggs completely out of the blue. She had no…
1965 to Today: Moving Towards a Majority-Minority America
By: Alton Wang (@altonwang) We often talk about the course of history as if it is distantly in our past.…
API Mental Health: Let’s Stop Talking Taboos and Start Talking Racism
By: Jen Soriano (@lionswrite) Editor’s Note: As of May 22, 2018 the author has modified this essay to include more Native…
On Being a Brown Asian: Expanding the Boundaries of Asian America
By: Anisa Khalifa During my last year of university, I decided to explore beyond my close-knit group of friends and…