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Commemorating the First-Ever AAPI Day Against Bullying and Hate Cities, elected officials, and advocacy groups rally around a day to fight hate in the Asian American and Pacific Islander community and…

Taiwan legalises same-s*x marriage The landmark ruling makes Taiwan's parliament the first in Asia to pass gay marriage legislation.

"The strike in itself also made it known that Chinese women workers organized actively for their rights and would not let ethnic ties with Chinese employers stifle their fight for economic justice. As a result, employers held back on wage cuts and withdrew their demand to take away holidays and key benefits. The strike paved the way for increased bilingual staff for workers, English classes and transportation services."

Open City - How Chinese American Women Changed U.S. Labor History Beyond dim sum restaurants and new bubble tea and dessert cafes, historic sites of resistance line Chinatown’s streets.

"Because rigid radicalism induces a sense of duty and obligation everywhere, there is a constant sense that one is never doing enough. In this context, “burnout” in radical spaces is not just about being worn out by hard work; it is often code for being wounded, depleted, and frayed: “I’m fu***ng burning.” What depletes us is not just long hours but the tendencies of shame, anxiety, mistrust, competition, and perfectionism. It is the way in which these tendencies stifle the capacity for collective creativity and change."

The Stifling Air of Rigid Radicalism Can radical politics harbor a deadening conservatism?

"Race, not education, is the fuel for white flight. Some whites will simply avoid living near people of color, as has been the case since the early 20th century. Parents would prefer a cut in education programs to having their children sit alongside children of color. Why else would whites flee the high-performing schools of Johns Creek for other high-performing schools in similar suburbs, except to get away from the Asians?"

Ghosts of White People Past: Witnessing White Flight From an Asian Ethnoburb If diversity is so important to liberal whites, why do they keep fleeing ethnically diverse suburbia?

"Earlier agricultural contributions from Asian Americans have largely been erased, while an overwhelmingly white back-to-the-land movement starting in the 1960s leaned into Asian vegetables and herbs (such as ginger) and food philosophies (such as Ayurvedic), and today’s “vegetable-forward” dining trends are dominated by white chefs. But farming and purveying produce with a focus on taste and quality have held strong for many Asian American-run food businesses."

How Asian-American Farmers Shape What America Eats Asian-Americans’ contributions to locally grown, sustainable produce have long been ignored, but these young farmers are trying to change that

"Consider the relative ease with which Western cis male tourists are able to travel... and when traveling is a cakewalk to you, feeling entitled to it naturally follows. Travel marketing fuses travel “destinations” and the host women into one brand, so that the tourist is not only entitled to the land by design, but to its women. “In [tourism advertising] we will see that stereotypical gendered, s*xed and often racialized images of women are in many cases part of the tourism product itself,” summed Dr. Pritchard. This is part of what makes s*x tourism, trafficking, and abuse by Western male tourists more rampant and commonplace than any mainstream outlet has given it credit for."

The Fragility of the Western Traveler Before you pack your bags, unpack your colonial privilege.

"“I get that you’re hurting, Monique,” Joanna says. “But the whole community is hurting.” She clearly believes the external racism aimed at the Asian American community is more important than the intra-community prejudice I’ve experienced. To her, there is only one way to support the community, and it means remaining silent about its flaws."

Catapult | “The Community Is Hurting”: Why We Need to Talk About Colorism and Bias in Asian American Communities | Monique Laban It feels jarring to deal with “model minority” stereotypes in non-Asian American spaces while facing negative stereotypes within some Asian ones.

“You have people born in the States that are shooting up schools and they’re getting lesser punishments. You commit a small crime, and because you’re an immigrant you get punished harshly for it, and look at the results." “We prayed that something like this would not happen again to a Cambodian. ... Or anyone else.”

Cambodian immigrant's deportation ends in tragedy for R.I. family | Video Sophorn San, a Cambodian immigrant who'd lived in Rhode Island from age 4, was targeted for deportation after pleading guilty to a gun charge at age 19.

"I used to dream of a simpler time, a Vietnam of thatch roof huts and banana leaves and lotus flowers. But this Vietnam only exists in my imagination. We must not romanticise a past that never was, or choose only to remember the innocence of our history. Spoiler alert: Nobody’s history is innocent. We must be brave enough to claim it all."

Nobody’s history is innocent I used to dream of a simpler time, a Vietnam of thatch roof huts and banana leaves and lotus flowers. But this Vietnam only exists in my imagination. We must not romanticise a past that never was, …