“I am not free while any woman is unfree … Nor is any one of you.”

Angry and tired. This week, my body is silt and water in a storm.

Hate made visible; the old made new. White supremacy and racism, misogyny and sexualization, capitalism and imperialism perpetuate violence across the ages. Yet we can’t be desensitized. We can’t look away. We can’t avoid anger. We can’t bypass pain.

“I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own. And I am not free as long as one person of Color remains chained. Nor is any one of you.”

— Audre Lorde (The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism)

Action is no escape — as so truly expressed by R.O. Kwon:

“Minutes after I first read about the attacks, I started thinking about what I should do, how I could be useful. Maybe I need to take another minute, maybe several minutes, to sit with this breaking heart.”

— R.O. Kwon (A Letter to My Fellow Asian Women Whose Hearts Are Still Breaking)

I feel this, while still grasping for words and ways of coping and being. For me, there is a relationship between language and feeling; action and healing.

The bookmarks below have been compiled between unplugging and connecting; receiving and forwarding, sharing and listening. It is not a comprehensive list (nor an endorsement of asking BIPOC for labor in learning). It is a collection that I’m continuing to update incrementally. It is a starter of resources for learning, actioning, and healing.

Take Action

Donate to support victims’ families on GoFundMe

• https://www.gofundme.com/c/act/atlanta-area-spa-shootings-fundraisers

Read & sign the petition with National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum (NAPAWF)

• https://www.napawf.org/stopasianhate

3 Ways to Support Georgia’s AAPI Community (AAJC Atlanta)

• Read & sign on to the collective community statement: https://bit.ly/GeorgiaAAPICommunityStatement
• Donate to support the victims and their families: https://bit.ly/DonateToGeorgiaAAPICommunity
• Share crisis response resources: https://bit.ly/georgiaAAPIcommunitycare

Additional Links

• How to Help Combat Anti-Asian American Violence (The Cut)

Follow

• Stop AAPI Hate
• Asian Americans Advancing Justice Atlanta (AAJC Atlanta)
• Asian Americans Advancing Justice (AAJC)
• National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum (NAPAWF)
• Red Canary Song
• Butterfly
• AAPI Women Lead
• 18 Million Rising
• AAPIs for Civic Empowerment Education Fund
• Asian American Federation
• Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund

AAPI & Anti-bias / Anti-racist Learning

• Asian American Racial Justice Toolkit
• We Are Not a Stereotype (Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center)
• A Different Asian American Timeline
• Asian Americans (PBS)
• Black and Asian Feminist Solidarities (Black Women Radicals & the Asian American Feminist Collective)
• Black and Asian-American Feminist Solidarities: A Reading List (Black Women Radicals & the Asian American Feminist Collective)
• A Brief History of Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders & State-Sanctioned Violence (National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum NYC)
• Vigil for 8 Lives Lost in Atlanta (Red Canary Song)
• Anti-Asian Violence and Black-Asian Solidarity on March 23: 3–5 PM PST // 6–8 PM EST (Asian American Writers’ Workshop & Tamara K. Knopper)
• You, Me & White Supremacy Webinar Series (Asian Americans Advancing Justice Atlanta)
• Challenging Anti-Asian Racism and Misogyny (Inhe Choi, EunSook Lee, Ai-jen Poo, Stephanie Sy)
• Town Hall on Anti-Asian Racism: Solidarity is Our Survival (Saturday, March 27: 1–3 PM PST // 4–6 PM EST) (People’s Collective for Justice and Liberation)

Community Resources & Organizing

• Activate: Asian American Community Resource / Dono Post (@sasponella @minstantramen)
• Cop-Free Communities: Safety Resources (Asian American Feminist Collective)
• AAPI Anti-Hate Community Resources (Asian Americans Advancing Justice)
• Bystander Intervention Trainings (Asian Americans Advancing Justice)

AAPI Community Care & Healing

• COVID Racist Harassment Coping Guide (NAPAWF NYC)
• Asian Mental Health Collective & APISAA Therapist Directory
• Inclusive Therapists
• Give Good Care
• AAPI Brave Space on Discord
• Community Check In for the AAPI Community (Friday, March 19: 3–4 PM PST // 6–7 PM EST) (Ivy Kwong & Ethel’s Club)
• Healing through commUNITY (Saturday, March 20: 12–2 PM PST // 3–5 PM EST) (Asian Mental Health Collective)
• A Healing Space Led by Asian & Pacific Islander Women (Tuesday, March 23: 4–5 PM PST // 7–8 PM EST) (AAPI Women Lead)
• Collective Rest: Healing for AAPI (Tuesday, March 23: 5–6 PM PST // 8–9 PM EST) (The Cosmos)
• NYC Anti-AAPI Violence Processing Circle (Wednesday, March 24: 3–5 PM PST // 6–8 PM EST) (NAPAWF NYC)

Last updated: March 23, 2021