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The events that unfolded over the past 24 hours in Atlanta were not isolated incidents. Hate crimes against Asian Americans have increased nearly 150% in the US in the last year.
Last June, in the wake up of yet another uprising in hate crimes committed by white supremacists, we released the following statement:
White supremacists, Nazis, and other purveyors of hate can fully fuck off. They are not welcome here.
These words are as true today as they were then. We stand with the Asian American community. If you see hate speech on Tumblr, please report it. That shit is not tolerated here.
To help the survivors and families of yesterday’s hate crimes, please consider donating to a nonprofit like the Atlanta branch of Asian Americans Advancing Justice if you can. If you can’t, consider spreading the word. We’ll list more resources and reblogs over on @action as we find them.
As always, please make sure you are taking care of yourself as well. If you’re struggling for any reason, please reach out to any of the free and confidential counseling services listed here.
The events that unfolded over the past 24 hours in Atlanta were not isolated incidents. Hate crimes against Asian Americans have increased nearly 150% in the US in the last year.
Last June, in the wake up of yet another uprising in hate crimes committed by white supremacists, we released the following statement:
White supremacists, Nazis, and other purveyors of hate can fully fuck off. They are not welcome here.
These words are as true today as they were then. We stand with the Asian American community. If you see hate speech on Tumblr, please report it. That shit is not tolerated here.
To help the survivors and families of yesterday’s hate crimes, please consider donating to a nonprofit like the Atlanta branch of Asian Americans Advancing Justice if you can. If you can’t, consider spreading the word. We’ll list more resources and reblogs over on @action as we find them.
As always, please make sure you are taking care of yourself as well. If you’re struggling for any reason, please reach out to any of the free and confidential counseling services listed here.
Obviously don’t get all your info from Instagram and Twitter, use the other resources going around, but these just help to illustrate and make good points about how we need to continue.
Obviously don’t get all your info from Instagram and Twitter, use the other resources going around, but these just help to illustrate and make good points about how we need to continue.
Obviously don’t get all your info from Instagram and Twitter, use the other resources going around, but these just help to illustrate and make good points about how we need to continue.
Obviously don’t get all your info from Instagram and Twitter, use the other resources going around, but these just help to illustrate and make good points about how we need to continue.
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tw // anti-asian violence
there’s been a fuck ton of aapi hate since the beginning of the pandemic and especially lately, with the georgia shootings today, and even the grammys last sunday
all this said i just wanted to share a few resources (none mine!):
- anti-asian violence resources (this resource is also linked in my pinned, it contains information, petitions, places to donate and a lot more)
- stop asian hate (contains petitions, places to donate, ways to spread the word and more)
- sites to donate to and share (if you have a twitter please consider retweeting)
- a cumulative twitter thread with a little bit of everything and more than i explained
+ stop asian hate gofundme
+ asian american resource center (an atlanta based foundation focused on housing and civil classes)
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if you have any resources you wanna share reply and/or reblog and i’ll add it, and with that please share this with the same tags <3 sending love to my fellow aapi, please stay safe all of you and don’t be fucking racist :]
While the experiences of BIPOC are not the same, many of the problems that we face are intertwined. We must stand in solidarity as we fight for equality, safety, and justice.
Where to start:
(ACLU) racism in policing:
A history of Anti-Asian hate
Support:
Support the families of the Sikh FedEx Victims
Support the family of Daunte Wright
Verified GoFundMe list for the victims of the Atlanta spa shooting
For protesting:
(ACLU) protesters' rights
This is a topic that we discussed in my school. A girl in my class (who was white) asked the question. "Why is it offensive to tell someone 'oh your English is really good'." And at the time I really didn't not know what to say to her. I knew it was offensive. I would get offended by it if somebody said that to me or to my parents. But I couldn't figure out why.
After a lot of thinking over the weekend I finally realized. And this post and article further articulate that.
By telling us "oh your English is very good!" It implies that you did not expect it to be. You expected that we didn't belong here. That you expected us to be an "other"
Maybe you didn't mean it. Maybe you genuinely thought it was a compliment. But that's not the way it is taken.
"Where are you from?" From -----. "No, where are you really from?" or "What are you?".
While it doesn't really hurt me when I'm asked, those words are a constant reminder in the back of my mind that I don't fully belong in the place where I grew up in most of my life. It's microagressions like these that add to the feelings of being seen as "perpetual foreigners". Those are the words that really hit the spot from Eric Nam's Time article. On top of that, the model minority myth on Asians that has been ingrained in our families for generations is a mindset that hurts us more than it uplifts us.
To be seen as foreigners in the same place where they told us to be good examples and to set the standards of success among minority groups is like being invited to the table but being told to stay in our spot and to stay silent.
As the model minority, we were told to get an education, to work hard, and to have successful careers in order to achieve the American Dream. My Filipino mom, aunts, uncles, and cousins became the doctors and nurses you see in the frontlines battling the pandemic. Did you know that 16% of nurses in the U.S. are immigrants and a third of those, the largest group, are Filipinos? There's so many of us as nurses that we've become the backbone of many healthcare facilities around the world. There's the big stereotype for Filipino children to follow their parents' footsteps of becoming nurses (sorry mom!). Yet, achieving this American Dream is not enough for us to be seen as "true Americans". We are hailed as essential workers, but at the end of the day we are still called "kung-flu" or "Chinese virus".
I've faced racist remarks and microaggressions my whole life to that it's just numbing. Numbing to the point it feels normal and jokes doesn't hurt me when it should. And this certain rhetoric didn't start just now. It's been growing since the start of the pandemic. Being afraid of going to places, I remember expressing to my friends my worries of possibly being targeted during a Europe trip we planned last year (the trip never happened). The Filipina woman attacked in NYC hits close to home, as I think about my own mom who also go on walks to church, and my relatives and friends who live in NYC. This past week my parents went on a mini roadtrip by themselves and I was honestly worried for their safety.
I'm thankful to be around people who condemn these hateful actions and express the same sentiments I do. But there are those not fortunate enough to have that support system. What really helps is to listen, to educate yourself, to donate, and to amplify and advocate. I'm not here to tell you what to do but the progress starts when we all decide to step up.
I'm really fucking angry & have been sitting with this for a few days.
Why is nobody talking about the fact that 215 children's bodies were discovered in Canada, all killed in Kamloops Indian Residential School?
the last Residential School was closed in the fucking 80s, but I've heard fellow native people say it's 1996.
closed in the 1980s-90s.
that wasn't long ago.
I'm crying as I write this and my blood is boiling, nobody is fucking talking about these poor babies who were ripped from their families and MURDERED!!!
nobody outside of Canada fucking talks about this. I'm so sick of it. There's so much violence towards native people, and nobody gives a shit.
They're ripping through our land as I speak, and our Prime Minister is at the center of it!
his statement towards the discovery of these children is to call this a "shameful chapter of our country's history" BUT HEY, JUSTIN??? the chapter ain't fucking done, you sick monster!!
there are 40 year olds who are still alive, who were survivors of the residential schools!!!
I'm so disgusted. I'm so done. I'm so, so disappointed in this awful country.
the shooting in Atlanta of 8 massage parlour workers by a white man was a white supremacist hate crime and the latest in a series of attacks on Asians in the US. however, it’s also extremely important to note that the group he targeted are a community that is already more vulnerable to state violence than many, in form of police raids, deportations, and systematised stigmatisation. this is an industry that’s often conflated with and overlapping with sex work, and the industry has faced decades of criminalisation and dehumanisation, with a long history of being targeted by cops and systemic injustice along with racialised misogyny and fetishisation. they are also often excluded from conversations about the latest rise of anti-asian racism in the US, since many do not fulfill the “american” part of asian-american.
if you can donate, also consider donating to red canary song, butterfly network, and swan vancouver, grassroots organisations and activists that fight for migrant and labour justice for migrant workers and sex workers.
hello! just a lil smth, please don’t scroll!
tw // anti-asian violence
there’s been a fuck ton of aapi hate since the beginning of the pandemic and especially lately, with the georgia shootings today, and even the grammys last sunday
all this said i just wanted to share a few resources (none mine!):
- anti-asian violence resources (this resource is also linked in my pinned, it contains information, petitions, places to donate and a lot more)
- stop asian hate (contains petitions, places to donate, ways to spread the word and more)
- sites to donate to and share (if you have a twitter please consider retweeting)
- a cumulative twitter thread with a little bit of everything and more than i explained
+ stop asian hate gofundme
+ asian american resource center (an atlanta based foundation focused on housing and civil classes)
—
if you have any resources you wanna share reply and/or reblog and i’ll add it, and with that please share this with the same tags <3 sending love to my fellow aapi, please stay safe all of you and don’t be fucking racist :]