Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
Join Third World Newsreel and the Documentary Forum at CCNY for an online discussion of the PBS documentary, Plague at the Golden Gate, with producer/director, Li-Shin Yu, including the making of this film, its significance now, and her own path from editing to leading a film.
UnHomeless NYC (Kingsborough Art Museum, online and off-site Oct. 10, 2021 – Apr 14, 2022/in-person exhibition Mar 3 – Apr 14, 2022) is a group exhibition of artists utilizing participation, activism, and pedagogy as their media to consider and better understand New York City’s housing crisis, and to think about our future as the city emerges from the Covid-19 pandemic.
Report an Incident / Safety & Mental Health Resources AP3CON – Stop AAPI Hate Incident Reporting Form Asian Americans Advancing Justice – Standing Against Hatred Asian American Federation – Anti-Bias Reporting Form / Safety Resources Asians Do Therapy – Reducing Stigma and Increasing Accessibility Asian Mental Health Collective – Mental Health Support Asian Mental Health … Read more
The impact of the pandemic on the Asian-American community in New York City is particularly profound. Beyond the pandemic’s effect on public health, economic growth, education, medical services, food supply, and international relations, the Asian-American community has been blamed for the pandemic and the target of hate and violence. Co-executive editors Chris Kwok and Karen King will present the Asian American Bar Association of New York’s recently released report that discusses the data showing that anti-Asian hate and violence have skyrocketed in 2020, focusing on the New York City region.
OUR LIVES IN 2020 are being shaped by unfamiliar words, customs and concepts. Many of us are experiencing health insecurity, food insecurity, job insecurity, and fear of random violence. These concepts may be new to many of us, but they would have been very familiar to my grandfather Misao and many other immigrants and refugees, … Read more
“THE CURIOUS THING ABOUT PANDEMICS,” I read in a back issue of The Guardian, “is that novelists don’t seem to know what to do with them.” Well, that is one of the curious things about pandemics. “But when they have written memorably about them,” the critic continues, “it tends to have been as allegories for … Read more