Non-AAARI News

With a recent rise in anti-Asian hate crimes, the term “bamboo ceiling” has taken on new meaning.

In the early hours of Wednesday morning, I am woken to the harsh realities amidst the discourse of American Dreams and American democracy. Shook to the bone. Thoughts uncontained. Fear for so many friends and family in Atlanta and New York City.

Frank Wu, president of Queens College, talks about how he is confronting the rising reports of violence against Asian Americans, and how he is leading Queens College through this and the pandemic.

Mayor Bill de Blasio today announced the relaunch of Communities Thrive, a $3.7 million, two-year investment in addressing the mental health needs of underserved New Yorkers.  Through Communities Thrive, organizations representing Asian American and Pacific Islander, Black, and Latinx New Yorkers will develop community-driven strategies to promote mental health and will directly connect people who need … Read more

Reducing Asians to flat, heavily accented caricatures is a favorite pastime in this country, and has been for decades. Mocking Asian men as weak and effeminate is so common that it’s become white noise for too many who hear it; Asian women have long been reduced to dehumanizing stereotypes, whether meek and speechless or aggressively … Read more

The news that eight people, six of them Asian-American women, were killed at businesses in the Atlanta area on March 16 came after a year of intense anti-Asian racism in the U.S. On the platforms where news arrives first, and quickly attaches to feelings, emotions were already raw. In the dissonance was confirmation of what … Read more