October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. For some, it's a month to celebrate, but for others, it can be re-traumatizing. "For me October is basically 31 days of low-key PTSD," writes Holly Burns, a breast cancer survivor. https://t.co/QTujDM620o
As hospitals start to fill up, let's not forget: Filipino Americans account for 4% of U.S. nurses but make up more than a QUARTER of nurses who die from COVID.
That number has stayed level throughout the last year.
"None of us signed up to die," one Fil-Am nurse told ABC.
@ASOS I’ve been trying to contact customer service but your site is making it very difficult. Is there a way I can contact you regarding an incorrect item sent in my order?
@FedEx@FedExHelp this is the third time this week my shipment has been stuck at your Edison, NJ location. Can you please update shipping updates in a more timely manner? Everything has been delayed at this point with no additional updates.
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
don’t just check on your AAPI friends. read up on the Chinese Exclusion Act, US occupation of the Philippines, Japanese internment camps. listen to AAPI women when they talk about the racist, sexualized messages they’ve heard all their lives. we’re all tired and it’s just not new