act.
“How can I help?“
As I continued to learn and find people utilizing their voices and platforms to fight for our collective liberation, I started asking how I could get involved. It was past time to step up; the time to act was now.
It’s okay to start out taking small steps: $5 donation to a mutual aid fund, supporting an Asian-owned business, amplifying Black women and other people of color on social media by sharing and saving their posts. Some people might be able to dive in deeper from the start: joining an organization, recurring monthly donations, leading rallies.
There are so many ways to help and none of them are “too small.”
Below is a non-exhaustive list of resources to help you start advocating for change for all oppressed peoples.
Asian Pacific American
Asian Americans Advancing Justice
For 25 years, Advancing Justice | AAJC has worked to strengthen the Asian American community by providing tools and resources to build the capacity of our local and state-based counterparts and Asian American youth leadership, educating the public and the media about Asian Americans, all while fighting for Asian Americans to have a voice in national politics.
NAPAWF: National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum
The National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum (NAPAWF) is the only organization focused on building power with AAPI women and girls to influence critical decisions that affect our lives, our families and our communities. Using a reproductive justice framework, we elevate AAPI women and girls to impact policy and drive systemic change in the United States.
Stop AAPI Hate
Stop AAPI Hate tracks and responds to incidents of hate, violence, harassment, discrimination, shunning, and child bullying against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the United States.
Further Action
Asian Adoptees
Adoptees For Justice
Adoptees For Justice is an intercountry adoptee-led organization which formed in 2018. Adoptees For Justice firmly believes that ALL intercountry adoptees should have U.S. citizenship, and that no adoptee should be left behind.
FCC: Families with Children from China
FCC is a nonprofit organization supporting Chinese adoptees and their families and friends. Founded in the early 1990s in Manhattan as a parent support group, and expanding to a nation-wide network, our members include adoptive parents, Chinese adoptees and their siblings and other relatives, as well as friends of the organization.
ASIA Families
ASIA Families supports adopted persons from Korea – children, teens, and adults – in developing their identities through enriching educational programs in the U.S. and Korea.
Further Action
Diversity and Justice
Indigenous People’s Movement
A global coalition bringing awareness of issues affecting Indigenous people from North & South America, Oceania, Asia, Africa & the Caribbean.
Unity, Inc.
UNITY’s Mission is to foster the spiritual, mental, physical, and social development of American Indian and Alaska Native youth, and to help build a strong, unified, and self-reliant Native America through greater youth involvement.
Diversability
Diversability is a community of people with disabilities (and the people who support us), on a mission to elevate disability pride, together.