Post-AAWIL Resources
Taking action after the conference
We hope you were inspired by the various workshops you attended during the conference!
Some of our thoughts from the weekend:
Interested in more ways to connect with other conference attendees and taking action to address these issues?
- Join our Facebook group
- Sign up for a participant-facilitated working group and we will be in touch shortly with next steps
- Interested in leading the change by volunteering with a community organization like ASPIRE? Learn more here!
Some of the music we've played during the conference is here.
Explore the resources we’ve compiled to continue learning about and engaging in these important issues affecting our community.
- Anti-Blackness
Articles
- Anti-Racism for Asian Americans - Ellie Yang Camp
- Letters for Black Lives
- The Asian American Response to Black Lives Matter Is Part of a Long, Complicated History
- Solidarity is Love: Taking Asian Diasporic Feminists Back to Black and Asian Feminism in the ’60s
- Non-Black People of Color Need to Start Having Conversations about the Anti-Blackness in Our Communities: A guide to starting anti-racist conversations with friends and family
- Black and Asian Feminist Solidarity Letter
- Black and Asian Feminist Solidarities
- Building a Police-Free Future: FAQs
- NYT: Yes, We Mean Literally Abolish the Police
- Asian Boss Girl: Resources for Allyship
- Anti-Racist Resource Guide - Victoria Alexander
- Asian Americans Need to Go Beyond Apologizing for Anti-Black Racism
- What Colorism Feels Like as an Indian-American Woman
- Asian Americans need to talk about anti-blackness in our communities
Books
- Sister Outsider - Audre Lorde
- Radical Feminist Solidarities: A Reading List
- Are Prisons Obsolete? - Angela Davis
- Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning - Cathy Park Hong
- The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century - Grace Lee Boggs
Videos
- American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs
- Patriot Act - We Cannot Stay Silent About George Floyd
- The Price of Keeping Our Heads Down
- Gook
- Patriot Act - Affirmative Action
Podcasts
- NPR’s Code Switch: 'Model Minority' Myth Again Used As A Racial Wedge Between Asians And Blacks
- The Intercept: Ruth Wilson Gilmore Makes the Case for Abolition
- 1619
- Intersectionality Matters
- Code Switch
- NPR’s Code Switch: Is it Time to Say R.I.P to ‘POC’?
Organizations
Social Media Accounts
- Asians 4 Black Lives
- Asians 4 Black Lives
- Aerica Shimizu Banks
- Asian Americans for BLM
- Blasian Projuect
- South Asians 4 Black Lives
- MPD_150
Groups
- Imposter Syndrome
Books
- Why Do I Feel Like an Imposter?: How to Understand and Cope with Imposter Syndrome
- The Secret Thoughts of Successful Women: Why Capable People Suffer from the Impostor Syndrome and How to Thrive in Spite of It
Films
Podcasts
Organizations
Social Media Accounts
Groups
- Intergenerational and Intercultural Communication
During the conference, attendees participated in live hackathon, where they devised solutions related to the overarching theme of “Intergenerational/ Intercultural Communication and Conflict management”.
Check out the many posters that our AAWIL "hackitvist" teams made.
This resource will be available at the of the conference on Saturday after we've had our Hackathon session. Stay tuned!
- Intersectionality
Articles
- Who Was Grace Lee Boggs, the Asian American Labor Organizer and Writer?
- 4 Asian-American Women Who Changed History
- Anti-Asian Racism Is On the Rise During Coronavirus — But It’s Nothing New
- As Coronavirus Spreads, So Does Anti-Chinese Racism
- Harvard May Have Won a Big Case, But the Fight Over Affirmative Action Is Far From Over
- Messy, Curly Hair Shaped My Identity as an Indian-American Woman
- 15 Photos That Show What Being Asian-American Looks Like
- What Colorism Feels Like as an Indian-American Woman
- Teens Are Helping Their Family Businesses During the Coronavirus Pandemic
- The Love Language of My Chinese-American Parents
- If We Called Ourselves Yellow
Books
- This Bridge Called My Back - Cherrie Moraga and Gloria Anzaldua
- Beyond the Gender Binary - Alok Vaid Menon
- I’m Afraid of Men - Vivek Shraya
- Asian American Feminisms and Women of Color Politics
- Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning - Cathy Park Hong
- Colonize This: Young Women of Color on Today’s Feminism - Daisy Hernandez, Bushra Rehman
Videos
Podcasts
- Our True Colors
- Asian Americana
- Project Voice
- Self Evident: Asian America’s Stories
- Intersectionality Matters
- Other: Mixed Race in America
- Tell Them I Am
- Alok - I Weigh with Jameela Jamil
- Ocean Vuong - A Life Worthy of Breath - On Being Podcast
Organizations
- AAPI Women Lead
- Asian American Resource Workshop
- Asian American Commission
- CAAAV Organizing Asian Communities
- Advancing Justice - ALC
- Asian American Writers’ Workshop
- Kundiman
Social Media Accounts
- Lexi Chandra
- Mia Mingus
- Alok Vaid Menon
- Chella Man
- Intersectional.abc
- AAPI Women Lead
- Angry Asian Feminist
- Asian Am Feminist Collective
- Dear Asian Youth
- WOC Sister Collective
- Sister Diaspora for Liberation
- Asian American Writers’ Workshop
Groups
- Mental Health
Articles
- Mental Health During COVID-19
- Asian, Pacific Islander, and South Asian American (APISAA) Therapist Directory
- Asian Canadian Therapist Directory
- Asian Mental Health Collective: Organizations Directory
- A Reflection on Asian Intergenerational Trauma
Books
- The Astonishing Colour of After
- Dear Friend, From My Life I Write to You in Your Life
- Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
Podcasts
Organizations
- Asian Women for Health
- Asian American Suicide Prevention & Education
- The Jed Foundation - Mental Health Resource Center
- Asian Mental Health Collective
- Massachusetts Asian + Pacific Islanders for Health
Social Media Accounts
- Asians for Mental Health
- Asian Mental Health Project
- Asian Mental Health Collective
- Decolonizing Our Healing
- Yi-Youn Kim
- The Mind Health Spot
- Subtle Asian Mental Health
Groups
- Model Minority Myth
Articles
- The Washington Post: The real reasons the U.S. became less racist toward Asian Americans
- Yale Insights: Anti-Asian Racism Exposes the Model Minority Myth
- PEW Research Center: Income Inequality in the U.S. Is Rising Most Rapidly Among Asians
- What is the Model Minority Myth?
- Anti-Racism for Asian Americans - Ellie Yang Camp
- If We Called Ourselves Yellow
Books
Videos
Podcasts
- NPR: 'Model Minority' Myth Again Used As A Racial Wedge Between Asians And Blacks
- Asian Americana
- Self Evident: Asian America’s Stories
- Model Minority: Uniquely American
Organizations
Social Media Accounts
Groups
