No meek Asians here. Whether in grassroots organizations, nonprofit groups, or government positions, Asian American women are making our voices heard.
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Over the past month, there has been increasingly less media coverage of the ongoing Black Lives Matter movement and associated protests against police brutality and systemic racism. And yet, another horrifying video of violence against a Black person has gone viral:...
On July 3, 2020, President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines signed the Anti-Terrorism Act into law. This law allows the Philippine government to label any one a terrorist (within and outside the borders of the Philippines) for expressing dissent against the...
I never understood why Kali Ma was shoved in the back of my father’s altar, behind the fair goddesses. Wasn’t she the Hindu Goddess who protected her children? Why did her tongue hanging out of her mouth and her pitch-black skin attract the words “possession,” “evil,”...
There are 61 million people in America living with disabilities. That’s one in every four people. While the wheelchair symbol is the most common representation of disability, many disabled people do not utilize a mobility device. (Some even have disabilities that are...
In this time of racial reckoning, many organizations in Asian American communities have paused to make solidarity statements, organize and facilitate workshops that build awareness, and re-examine the words they’ve used. We at Mochi have also been thinking about how...
This month’s resource roundup focuses on educating oneself from sources already available. Instead of asking to take time away from Black activists working to fight racial injustice, check out these pieces by Black women authors instead. Our friend Kelli Bates (who...
Along with mass panic and toilet paper buyouts, COVID-19 brought waves of anti-Asian prejudice: first through the uncontextualized image of an Asian woman eating a bat, widely shared on the internet, and then through the violent confrontations Asian Americans...
“I’m at a loss for how to talk to him,” she said to me. I sat cross-legged in the passenger seat of a friend’s car, listening to her vent about her Asian parents’ apathy at any mention of the Black Lives Matter movement. Although she was feeling disheartened,...
In 2016, the back-to-back police shootings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile triggered sorrow and outrage throughout the United States. Shortly after, Donald Trump was elected into office. Like millions of Americans devastated by the outcome of the election,...