APSA at VCU

The Asian Pacific Student Alliance is a student organization designed to engage the AAPI community in politics and social justice. Come join us!

[Licypriya Kangujam @LicypriyaK]

Dear Media,
Stop calling me “Greta of India”. I am not doing my activism to looks like Greta Thunberg. Yes, she is one of our Inspiration & great influencer. We have common goal but I have my own identity, story. I began my movement since July 2018 even before Greta was started.

[박주현 @hermit_hwarang]

Not a single candidate is where they should be on all these issues. And Warren isn’t leading the pack on policy from an aggregate perspective

[박주현 @hermit_hwarang]

Anything “AAPI” about this election should be laser focused on the material needs of the most marginalized, including people who don’t live in the US. That means housing, climate, military, trade, labor, GBV, migration, incarceration, healthcare, EJ are front and center.

[박주현 @hermit_hwarang]

The way influencers and celebrities are being deployed to market to “their communities” on behalf of campaigns is so undermining and sad. It shifts focus from demanding better policy from everyone to picking a team in someone else’s game. Why pick sides when we have our own side?

[박주현 @hermit_hwarang]

I don’t like the diaspora poetry meme because we’re actually in a very exciting time for poetry. It feels more important to read the good stuff than just make a caricature of the mediocre/bad to wave off.

[shania twink @OfficialDebRyna]

If you read anything today, plz read this incredible piece by my dear friend @MiaRSato. She interviewed my mom & her friends about how they turned phone conferencing into a network of Hmong radio stations after the Hmong diaspora. Read & follow Mia! :')

https://t.co/0XUranEbkN

[Mia Sato @MiaRSato]

Thread!
conference call lines are the least personal mode of communication (like, does anyone enjoy them??).

but for YEARS, Hmong folks have been running and participating in their own “radio shows” on the lines. Thousands of callers can be on at once https://t.co/8Mh86PCJYV

[Mikki Kendall @Karnythia]

I don't even know Marie Kondo, but I am ready to roll up on someone for her simply because the racism jumps out of white feminist media every time she so much as smiles.

[Diane Wong @XpertDemon]

Too often academics privilege writing as a form of knowledge production but there’s so much to be said otherwise. Trying to switch it up in my Afro-Asian Solidarity Politics class, students made zines that narrate ancestral memories, decolonial histories, and unspoken intimacies

[Alice Wong 王美華 @SFdirewolf]

From the Disability Justice Culture Club:

As people evacuate the North Bay, disabled people are contacting us for housing.

If you need SUPPORT and are disabled, chronically ill, fat, and/or an elder, contact us at https://t.co/v4XJ7AAVLB or 910-722-9552 #PSPS #PowerToLive

[Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance, AFL-CIO @APALAnational]

Poverty for AAPIs increased by 38% between 2007 and 2011, with 37% increase of Asian Americans and a 60% increase of Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islanders experiencing poverty. AANAPISIs assist these low-income students through their undergraduate careers. #AANAPISIWeek

[18 Million Rising @18millionrising]

Asian Americans represent less than 1% of US farmers. But these incredible Asian American farmers are reclaiming their cultural heritage by sustainably growing heirloom Asian produce like perilla, yu choy and water spinach. https://t.co/sZTRZaCL05

[chavez @ChavezTheRapper]

My pettiness runs so deep that I opted out of being a organ donor. Why can’t my illegal ass can’t get a kidney transplant but a citizen can take my kidney fuck that

[Sabrina Imbler @aznfusion]

good morning~ I went long on a queer Japanese novelist who wrote gay-ass stories that pioneered manga as we know it today 👯‍♂️
https://t.co/59eh0lTwjE

[@[email protected] @Imani_Barbarin]

Saying “disability is race-neutral” is dishonest and flat out wrong.

Proof? look no further than black people as a joke in Northam’s yearbook—for a medical school, featuring medical students with the intent to practice medicine and approved by the school to print.

[APSA at VCU @apsa_vcu]

This artwork is by Asian Pacific-Islander Student Alliance co-founder, Sumaat Khan.

[APSA at VCU @apsa_vcu]

Our theme for API Heritage Month at VCU is #MakingWaves! We looked back at some of the ways AAPIs have contributed to pop culture this past year. But who is represented? Who gets left out? #MakingWaves is about being concerned with being seen & heard and not just being visible.