Organizing Asian America
In the midst of powerful uprisings across the country in defense of Black lives lost to police murders and vigilante violence, the time to reimagine safety and practice solidarity is now. One way we can act today to stop killing Black people is to stop calling the police, and to…
18 Million Rising knows that some of our family members and loved ones may not understand why we must stop calling the police, but now is the time to have these conversations with our families. We want to help support you through that conversation. So, we wrote a letter to…
We need your support to reunite four Cambodian deportees with their families and community. We’re living through a global pandemic and people should be weathering it with their loved ones. Families deserve to be together. We know that if we’re able to prevent people from getting deported, we can also…
Content Warning: sexual trauma sumi: You have a really amazing bio. You identify as a superfat queer bisexual non-binary sex therapist, clinical social worker, and grassroots organizer. You’re a co-owner of a radical therapy center in Philly. You’re South Asian and committed to annihilating caste. Most readers may already follow…
“What is Healing for Asian Americans?” is a new 18MR pilot series exploring the healing possibilities for Asian America, in the face of American exceptionalism and the model minority myth. Asian American healing will play no small role in shaping the future. From fat liberation to somatics, to transformative justice…
Happy Asian Pacific American Heritage Month! We think there is no better time to celebrate the power and resilience of our communities than right now, in the midst of a pandemic that disproportionately impacts us. We have survived imperialist wars, colonialism, natural disasters, and so much more. In honor of…
Not only do Asian Americans worry about surviving the virus, we also fear for our lives. Our loved ones are experiencing skyrocketing levels of unchecked hate and violence – over 100 hundred hate crimes a day. This violence is the latest iteration of Yellow Peril. It is a form of…
To honor Black History Month, we are reflecting on how our work in the Asian American movement is deeply inspired and formed by the leadership of the Civil Rights and Black Power movements in the 60s and 70s, as well as the Third World Liberation Front, the fight for ethnic…
This year the month long celebration of Lunar New Year overlaps with Black History Month. Lunar New Year is a time of celebration, new beginnings, and being with family. As Asian American activists, we’re expanding our definitions of family and who we fight for. We’re asking: how will we live…
This November, 18MR’s Campaigner Laura Li and I were welcomed by the Kia’i at Mauna Kea. As Asian Americans, we were honored to be able to support and lift up the Kānaka Maoli’s fight to protect this sacred place. It’s been five months since the Kia’i (Kānaka Maoli protectors) set…
