STARTING WITH THE BASICS
- “In Defense of Race-Based Mentoring Programs” by Emi Young
- “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” by Peggy McIntosh
- “Heteropatriarchy and the Three Pillars of White Supremacy” by Andrea Smith—a note that many native scholars have criticized Andrea Smith for not actually being native.
Other General Resource Sites
Muslim AAPIs
Native Hawaiians, Pacific Islanders, and Other Indigenous Peoples
- From a Native Daughter: Colonialism and Sovereignty in Hawai’i by Haunani Kay-Trask
- “On Cameron Crowe’s Aloha and Indigenous Pacific Films We Actually Recommend” by Hinemoana of Turtle Island, “a Moana Feminist Collective, based in California and Oregon”
- “Recognizing Indigenous Pacific Struggles in the Lei at Selma” by Hinemoana of Turtle Island
South Asians / South Asian Americans:
- Colorism: “South Asians Are Celebrating Their Melanin with #UnfairAndLovely and It’s Beautiful” by Kenrya Rankin
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- LGBT+ & Desi: “Safe space for any desi under the LGBT+ spectrum”
- Caste in South Asia Resources:
- Caste in the Diaspora Resources:
- Sikh South Asians:
Southeast Asians / Southeast Asian Americans:
- “These groups of Asian-Americans rarely attend college, but California is trying to change that” by Matt Krupnick
- “A Brief Memoir of a Vietnamese-American Girl” By ViVien Bui
- “Why Are Filipino Americans Still Forgotten and Invisible?” By E.J.R. David
- “4 Ways Colonialism Affects the Everyday Lives of Filipino Americans” by Sherina Ong
- “This Is Not Pilipinx” blog “meant to serve all Pilipinx people of all or no genders, of all or no sexes…”
Disability Justice
- “Moving Toward the Ugly: A Politic Beyond Desirability” by Mia Mingus
- “Disability and Access Toolkit” by Erin Heaney
- Autistic Hoya is an autistic, nonbinary adopted Chinese American blogger who writes about disability justice
- “Ask a Model Minority Suicide: Resource Guide”
- “AAPI Mental Health: A More Complex View” by Angus Chen
Fatphobia
- “Navigating Body Image in Asian American Communities Is No Easy Task – But Here Are 4 Places to Start” by Rachel Kuo
- Author’s Note: This piece is primarily focused on the experiences of East Asian Americans and is written from the perspective of someone who identifies as Taiwanese American.
- “We Aren’t Unicorns: Asians, Fatness, and Fatphobia”
- Breaking Down Fatphobia
- Fatphobia Guide
- Weight Stigma 101
Addressing Anti-Blackness
- “Resources for non-Black Asians on Anti-Blackness”
- Non-black POC should not be using AAVE:
- “Being probbo – tfw ur friends are appropriating AAVE”
- Antiblackness Is A Theory
- What is Antiblackness?
- “Blackness Is The Fulcrum” by Scot Nakagawa
- “Why we need to take responsibility for anti-black racism in k-pop” by Chris Lee
- “A system that doesn’t value black lives can never truly value Asian American lives” by Jenn Fang
- The Revolution Starts with my Thathi: Strategies for South Asians to bring #blacklivesmatter Home by Sasha W.
LGBTQQIA Issues
- “LGBT Glossary Bridges Linguistic Gap Across Cultures” by Mariela Patron
- Q & A: Queer in Asian America, edited by David L. Eng & Alice Y. Hom
- LGBT+ & Desi “Safe space for any desi under the LGBT+ spectrum”
- “This Is Not Pilipinx” blog “meant to serve all Pilipinx people of all or no genders, of all or no sexes…”
- “Breaking Bodies, Healing Waves,” a zine created by AAMP and AARC in Spring 2018
Cultural Appropriation
- The Difference Between Cultural Exchange and Cultural Appropriation
- Kat Blaque | CULTURES ARE NOT COSTUMES
Undocumented AAPIs
- A DREAM A Part” by ASPIRE – SF / Asian Americans Advancing Justice – Asian Law Caucus
- Why We Rise” by RAISE: Revolutionizing Asian American Immigrant Stories on the East Coast
- Why Immigration Matters to Asian Americans” Infographic, Source: ASPIRE San Francisco Bay
- “Wait Times for Family Sponsorships” Infographic, Source: ASPIRE San Francisco Bay
Low-Income and Working Class AAPIs
- “For Asian Americans, Wealth Stereotypes Don’t Fit Reality”
- “The Untold Story of AAPI and the Labor Movement”
- Asian Americans in Class: Charting the Achievement Gap among Korean American Youth by Jamie Lew: One of the very few sociological studies done on working-class AAPI populations, but it’s done very well and sheds important insight on how racialization and model minority myth differ for working-class AAPI.
AAPI Survivors
- “The Unseen Sexual Assault & Domestic Violence in the #AAPI Community”
- (TW super graphic description of racialized sexual assault in the beginning) “White Sexual Imperialism: A Theory of Asian Feminist Jurisprudence” by Sunny Woan
Incarcerated AAPIs
Mixed AAPIs
- “I Became So Exhausted with Proving My South Asian Identity That I Started to Ignore It” by Anjali Patel
- chescaleigh | The Many Problems With ‘I Want Mixed Babies‘
AAPI womxn / Feminism
- The WU Syllabus
- Angry Asian Girls United
- “Fuck Fetishization” “A space created for Asian women to vent, rant, promote feminism, submit photos, and support other Asian women without fearing sexualization or fetishization. This blog is a space of empowerment for Asian women, not a resource for white people.”
- “White Sexual Imperialism: A Theory of Asian Feminist Jurisprudence” by Sunny Woan: (tw/cw: super graphic description of racialized sexual assault in the beginning)
The Asian American Resource Center 
