If you want to help, take upstander and bystander training. Encourage others to. Speak up. Fight for funding and resources for our community. We need you.
.@thatschic “There’s always a call to action now. There’s always something that someone’s trying to get out of you. And that’s just the nature of the internet,” Ms. Nguyen said.
“I’m ready to have more nuance in how we coexist and how we collaborate with each other,” she added.
also of course, if you didn't know, you can change your settings so that videos don't autoplay, we can try to protect our hearts, we need them for the long run
Sending love to all my Asian friends out there who showed up for work today.
The concept of a weekend didn't magically make our hurt and grief go away, so do what you can to take care of yourselves and each other. 💙
The group was multiethnic — Jimmy Sing Hay is of Chinese descent, Sakhone Lasaphangthong is Laotian, John Le is Vietnamese and Seng Saephan is Mien, an ethnic group from Southeast Asia.
Being third culture is very strange because what you do to get accepted into the majoritised group means you get rejected from the minoritised group and vice versa.
Essentially, we can live in limbo, accepted by neither group.