Asian-American Network

“To experience universal emotions like love – familial, romantic, platonic – without the psychic trauma that discrimination against LGBTQIA individuals can often leave in its wake. To seeing themselves – ourselves – not as an Other that has to straddle a lifetime of differentiation in the social undercurrent. 377A awakes such strong emotions in the LGBTQIA community because it is a disenfranchisement of people in a place they’d otherwise happily and proudly call home.”

“Because you may consider us statistically insignificant now, but one more fact that has no alternative is we are the fastest growing racial demographic in the country. We are 23 million strong, we are united and we are waking up.” 

today he’s temporarily suspending his twitter page and site (for a 48 hour period) to raise awareness for all the anti asian attacks. in new york city alone, in 2020, there were 29 reported attacks that were racially motivated, and that’s only the ones that were reported. last week a 36 year old asian american man was stabbed. this is to say that i have been feeling a lot of fear and anxiety myself for my family and for my elders, and even when i step outside. all of this compounds on covid fears and wanting to keep myself and others safe and healthy.  

This is a wonderful short documentary for people who are interested in Asian American history, New York City, Chinatowns and gentrification. I sort of stumbled on this video because my professor told me about W.O.W when I suggested I wanted to do an oral history project on Chinese laundries. 

For any curious SW followers. You might’ve heard about a fan made SW conlang for the Jedi, you know those monk samurai hybrids. Well, the conlang, or Dai Bendu, is being made by a much of SW fans. 

It is also Anti Asian. Essentially, the conlang erases any Asian the Jedi have. Also, while the creators have stated they have betas who speak Asian languages, I don’t think I need to say why that’s not good or acceptable. Not to mention, using Mandarin as an inspiration for the space Tibetan monks. 

You do have to wonder why they made a point to list all these languages in the introduction of their conlang worksheet if they aren’t using actual language in the construction. 🤔 🤔 🤔 🤔

Could it be, that they are trying to prove a point about how diverse and thus not racist they are? Do we remember the Bon Appetit blow up? About how diversity and inclusivity are not the same?

It doesn’t matter who they are or what heritage they have; supporting erasure is still racism. They moved from unintentional racism (which is forgivable and understandable) to deliberate and malicious racism the moment that it was pointed out to them and they decided that their ego/content was more important than the fact that they were erasing and othering the sliver of representation Asians had in a major Western franchise.

04/03/19

This Instagram Account Is Schooling The World On South Asian History

South Asia — comprising Afghanistan, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan and Maldives — has been a part of the many social, political and cultural changes that history has witnessed: trade, migration, war, slavery, colonisation and more. However much of the pages from this history are missing and so many stories of South Asian people have been forgotten or were never told.

06/22/18

Homeless Man Charged With Hate Crime For Trying To Kill Asian Man

Jeffrey Pachingger, 38, voluntarily came to the Berkeley Police Department after the alleged attack at the bike racks at Shattuck Avenue and Center Street at about 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday and admitted to hitting the victim with a rock because of “an illegal Asian takeover,” Officer Jason Muniz wrote in a probable cause statement.

This is a post that links some organizations that you or your followers can donate to or support that helps with child immigrants and helps fight against forced family separation.

Thank you for sharing this! I’ll definitely be checking these out.

06/18/18

Korean women face danger when playing online games

In a recent survey of 4,884 Korean female and male users of the game Overwatch, 97 percent of them said they had experienced or witnessed sexual harassment while playing the game. Types of harassment ranged from sexist terms used in comments to implying sexual violence through game characters to actually committing real life harassment.

In honor of Pride Month, I wanted to share this link with your followers! Chella Man (a deaf, genderqueer Asian YouTuber and artist) and Nyle DiMarco (famous for winning America’s Next Top Model and Dancing with the Stars) teach queer signs. I’ve been obsessively watching Chella’s videos for like a week and I wish I knew of more queer/LGBTQ Asian YouTubers. Do your followers have any suggestions?

Oh wow. Thank you very much for sharing this! :D

06/16/18

Muslim Family Accuses Local Red Lobster of Racial Discrimination

The family says their repeated requests for water were continuously dismissed by the servers. After waiting for at least 20 minutes, they decided to address their concerns about potential racial bias to the manager, who allegedly responded with “You people love to play the race card whenever you can.”

04/27/18

U.S. plans to end protected status granted to Nepalis after 2015 earthquake

The Department of Homeland Security announced Thursday that it will cancel temporary residence permits for thousands of Nepalis in the United States, a status granted to them following an earthquake three years ago that devastated the South Asian country.

04/20/18

America’s hunt for lSlS left Raqqa in ruins. Who is supposed to rebuild it?

The city has no running water or electricity, and there aren’t enough public employees to defuse the hundreds of explosives planted by the militants as they desperately clung to the city. People often encounter human remains as they take stock of what’s left of homes and businesses.

04/19/18

Burmese-American women suffer widest wage gap among Asian Americans

Burmese-American women suffer the widest wage gap among all Asian American ethnic communities compared to white men, according to statistics highlighted by several civil rights and labor groups last week in honor of Equal Pay Day. The groups said wage gaps experienced by women of most Asian American ethnicities challenge the notion that Asian Americans are a “model minority.”