Asian Americans Advancing Justice has been holding powerful bystander trainings to help people interrupt hate. You can find a list of the trainings, and ways to register at their website. Many of them are even free!
Category Archives: resources
A great summer reading list
Every year different groups come out with lists of books to engage over the summer. This list, from the YWCA of Boson (which is deeply committed to dismantling racism) has put out a really interesting list for this summer. I’ve loved many of the books on this list, which drives me to read the ones I have not yet read.
Understanding Abolition
Here is a powerful introduction to the push for abolition of police and prisons. Wherever you stand currently on this question, Keeanga Yamahtta-Taylor’s essay is profoundly informative.
cultural Humility Trainings
Resources for Engaging Anti-Asian Racism
Our hearts continue to break, this time in relation to the shootings in Atlanta. Here are some resources for engaging in fighting racism that are specific to Asian and Asian American communities:
Stop AAPI Hate: www.stopaapihate.org
Asian Pacific Environmental Network: http://apen4ej.org/
Asian Americans Advancing Justice: https://www.advancingjustice-aajc.org/
Asian Mental Health Collective: https://www.asianmhc.org/
Children’s book on fighting anti-Asian racism during COVID-19: https://www.youngproudsungjee.com/
House Judiciary holds a hearing on the history of anti-Asian discrimination and rise in anti-Asian hate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=547JYf-VA_Q
Stories in Place
Here’s a powerful set of short story films created by Black filmmakers about their favorite neighborhood spots: Stories in Place.
LGBTQIA+ Power Flower
We’ve talked about the power flower exercise before, here is another version of it that is part of the LGBTQIA+ toolkit.
#BlackChurchSyllabus
With the advent of the powerful new PBS series on the Black Church, we are reminded of the excellent resources put together back in 2015 on the #BlackChurchSyllabus site.
Essential Partners Dialogue guide
Essential Partners, the successor organization to what was the Public Conversations Project, has published a free dialogue guide for groups seeking to do good work in dismantling racism. The guide is available from their website.
Dismantling racism works resource online
The organization Dismantling Racism Works has put their entire workshop workbook online for free. It’s a really rich and useful set of resources, and a gift to those of us doing this work.