Vassar Asian American Studies Working Group

our creative workshop ASIAN AMERICANS AGAINST ICE was a huge success! thank you to everyone who attended and participated 💫💫 we hope to see you again at our next meetings!

Are you interested in stepping foot into Asian American Studies and contribute to the Critical Ethnic Studies representation at Vassar?👀
On Tuesday, May 11th at 9:30 PM, the VASAM, in collaboration with ASA, SASA, and SEASA first-year reps, will be holding a casual conversation with Professor Vivian Truong. 🤤Free food will be provided🍔
Sign up at tinyurl.com/meettruong

📣We are currently looking for students to participate in a focus group on the state of Asian American Studies at Vassar on May 2 from 2 to 3 PM.
Participation will entail engaging in hour-long moderated conversations via Zoom.
‼️This focus group is not an affinity space, and will be open to all students who want to share their thoughts and experiences‼️

Register for our first student-organized Critical Ethnic Studies Conference happening THIS WEEKEND, even just to pop by a single session! (link in bio)🤧🥳

https://miscellanynews.org/2020/04/30/features/legacy-of-activism-asian-american-studies-courses-offered-fall-2020/

Legacy of activism: Asian American Studies courses offered Fall 2020 – The Miscellany News Legacy of activism: Asian American Studies courses offered Fall 2020 By Nicole Kormendi and Sylvia Peng Posted on April 30, 2020 in Features Top, wall art from a 2006 Critical Ethnic Studies Coalition demonstration. Bottom, a showcase of the student-run Asian American Studies class Fugitivity in the...

Registration for Fall 2020 has opened! There are some AAS courses offer this semester including an Intro to Asian American Studies course taught by a new post-doc professor, Vivian Truong. VASAM was part of the hiring process, so we can attest that she is super cool 😍Also, we've included some info for the AAS correlate at Vassar. The perk of an empty correlate is that it's really easy to fulfill lol... but tenure lines have been in the works, so hopefully Vassar will offer consistently from now on. As for our bigger goal of strengthening Ethnic Studies, please look into courses offered on Native American Studies, Latinx Studies, and Africana Studies+ because your class choices help ensure that these historically excluded disciplines remain at Vassar. Not to mention, these classes are really amazing!!!

We are living in unprecedented times with or the . There has been a rise in anti-Chinese and anti-Asian discrimination and many efforts to combat it during this public health crisis. The People’s Collective for Justice and Liberation presents a Townhall on Anti-Asian Racism on Saturday, March 28, 2020 from 3pm-5pm PST/ 6pm-8pm EST. Asian American organizers, and other people of color we are in community with, will facilitate a conversation on race, struggle and solidarity in the time of a global pandemic. You won't want to miss this--please register here and help us spread the word: https://bit.ly/Anti-AsianRacismTownhall

A reminder that VASAM will have its WEEKLY meeting at the Rose Parlor, Tomorrow, at 6PM! Come join us to work on/talk about future projects for Asian-American studies at Vassar!

Tomorrow is the last day of pre-registration! Show solidarity in the fight for Critical Ethnic Studies!

The future of Asian American Studies at Vassar depends upon “demonstrated student interest.” We need bodies in these classes! Pre-register now!

Vassar as an institution has repeatedly signaled to us that Asian American Studies does not deserve a permanent place here, but we want to prove them wrong. Help us achieve ethnic justice by pre-registering for these classes!

Without student interest, Vassar won’t provide more Asian American Studies course!

Get ready for our last discussion class session TODAY @ 3pm, titled "Rethinking the American Dream."
Sylvia Peng (she/her, 2020) and Janrey Serapio (he/him, 2020) will be leading us in a discussion on the shortcomings of the various ways Asian immigration is framed in the U.S. We will be covering themes of multiculturalism, U.S. empire, and colonial history of the Philippines.