today is #BellLetsTalk day in Canada and for every tweet & RT using #BellLetsTalk or view of their video, Bell will donate 5 cents more to Canadian mental health initiatives 🤍
George Floyd's 4-year-old niece was shot in her sleep after bullets were fired into her father's apartment and it took 4 hours for the Houston police department to arrive. Arianna Delane has a punctured lung, a punctured liver, and 3 broken ribs.
Houston police have no suspects.
Christina Victoria Grimmie
12 March 1994 - 10 June 2016
5 years have passed since we lost her. Nothing can dim the light of this talented, kind & beautiful soul. Honor Christina's life today through her music & message
#RememberingChristinaGrimmie
Christina, we love & miss you
The rise in incidents of hate, violence, and bullying of Asians in America and Asian Americans will *not* go away if we work harder, act nicer, or wear flag pins. We must find community based solutions, show up, speak out, increase education, and change our narrative of us.
NYPD says 65-year-old Asian American woman was walking to church this morning when suspect assaulted her and said “f*** you, you don’t belong here.” Happened in front of 360 W. 43rd St. 11:40am. Sources say building security guard not only failed to render her aid... 1/2
For those outraged:
invest in women’s athletics. (Buy season tickets, buy merchandise, send kids to their camps)
support women’s athletics (go to games, stream their competitions on ESPN, tweet about them, follow their teams on social media)
Grow women’s athletics
Wake up... your Asian friends and family are deeply scared, horrified, sick to their stomachs and wildly angry. Please please please check in on us, please please please stand with us. Please. Your Asian friend needs you, even if they aren’t publicly grieving on social media. x
In less than 48 hours, we had a historic Asian Oscar moment with multiple firsts in 93 years—then a mass shooting targeting 3 Asian-owned businesses. This is how terrorism works—you’re not allowed to feel safe, accepted, or valued. We can resist. Take up space. Make noise.
#StopAAPIHate
Our mission is to champion progress and equity for all, reimagining a more just and anti-racist world.
Anti-Asian sentiment is not new, but in the past year, we recognize an increase in violence against the Asian American & Pacific Islander (AAPI) community.