AAPI Heritage Month Solidarity Resources

Asian Pacific Islander American Heritage Month

Read, listen, and learn more about transformative solidarity practices within and across Asian American and Pacific Islander communities with this round-up of Solidarity Stories and Solidarity Is This podcast episodes. Find each story/podcast episode below, along with reflection questions and resources to dig deeper. You can also listen to the podcast episodes on this playlist.

Interrogating the Asian American Pacific Islander Umbrella Identity

This Solidarity Story, featuring Tavae Samuelu (Empowering Pacific Islander Communities), shares why Pacific Islanders interrogate the idea of an Asian American and Pacific Islander identity

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Honoring Ancestral Histories and Traditions

This Solidarity Story, featuring Presley Ke’alaanuhea Ah Mook Sang, focuses on the efforts by Native Hawaiians to oppose the construction of a telescope on Mauna Kea, a sacred site with cultural and spiritual relevance.

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Uniting to Fight for Collective Rights

This Solidarity Story, featuring Gayle Romasanta, focuses on how Filipino and Mexican workers found common ground to fight for worker rights.

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Crises Bring Possibilities to Build Together

This Solidarity Story focuses on how Korean communities built with Black communities during and after the LA Uprising.

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Bo is pictured. Text reads: Asian Pacific Islander American Heritage Month: Solidarity Is This Playlist. May 2021 Centering and Uplifting Asian American Communities. "What does it mean for us to have complex unity within the community? A lot of our work here is really about centering on that experience, but also doing work that has great ambition in shared liberation."- Bo Thao-Urabe, Coalition of Asian American Leaders

Centering and Uplifting Asian American Communities (May 2021)

Bo Thao-Urabe (Coalition of Asian American Leaders) joins Deepa Iyer to discuss how Asian American communities are experiencing racism and building their solidarity muscle in Minnesota, one year after the murder of George Floyd.

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Alice is pictured. Text reads: Asian Pacific Islander American Heritage Month: Solidarity Is This Playlist. May 2018 Disability Solidarity. "There are people like me who are very proud of being disabled... It's on all of us to name it and identify it and say that we care about people with disabilities within our community." - Alice Wong, founder of the Disability Visibility Project

Disability Solidarity (May 2018)

Deepa talks with Alice Wong, founder of the Disability Visibility Project, about acknowledging & dismantling ableism in social justice movements.

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Kevin is pictured. Text reads: Asian Pacific Islander American Heritage Month: Solidarity Is This Playlist. March 2020 Solidarity In the Time of an Epidemic. "You could live in the fear and stay in the panic, but that's going to wreak a lot of havoc on your body. One of the best anecdotes to that anxiety is adding honey. Think about the sweetness, the joy, to sing and to dance and to cook." - Kevin Kahakula’akea John Fong

In The Time of an Epidemic (March 2020)

A conversation with community healer, Kevin Fong, about what we can learn from the pandemic and how we respond with compassion and solidarity.

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Satsuki and Brandon are pictured. Text reads: Asian Pacific Islander American Heritage Month: Solidarity Is This Playlist. July 2018 Never Again is Now. "An important part of the healing from our trauma is action... We need to reach out across all of these boundaries, all of these divides, to organize ourselves as a massive response to what's happening." - Satsuki Ina

Never Again Is Now (July 2018)

A conversation with Satsuki Ina, a trauma therapist born in a prison camp, and Brandon Shimoda, a poet writing about the afterlife of Japanese American incarceration.

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Anirvan, Sahar, and Kalia are pictured. Text reads: Asian Pacific Islander American Heritage Month: Solidarity Is This Playlist. September 2021 20 Years Later, We Look Back and Chart a Path Forward. “Our experiences are real, that they matter. My call to action as somebody who is a community-based historian is to continue to share our stories.” - Anirvan Chatterjee

Solidarity: 20 Years Later, We Look Back and Chart A Path Forward (September 2021)

On the 20th anniversary of 9/11, Deepa Iyer and guests Kalia Abiade, Anirvan Chatterjee and Sahar Pirzada share reflections and provide insights for where we go from here.

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