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Repost @asianbossgirl asianbossgirl ABG Book Club

Repost @asianbossgirl asianbossgirl ABG Book Club is back in seshh with some more book recs by Asian American authors!🤩
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If you got any recs to add, drop em below! We hear ya! 📚❤️✨
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@marvelstudios has released the new teaser poster

@marvelstudios has released the new teaser poster for @shangchi and the Legend of the Ten Rings stating @simuliu in theaters 9/3/2021. Click the link in bio to watch the trailer.
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The Illinois lower house passed a bill requiring p

The Illinois lower house passed a bill requiring public schools to teach Asian American history, setting the stage for possible adoption of milestone legislation amid rising incidents of violence against people of Asian descent.

The bill, which would mandate the teaching of a unit of Asian-American history in public elementary and high schools starting in the 2022-2023 school year, passed the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives by a vote of 98 to 13.

"Asian Americans are a part of the American fabric but we are often invisible," said state representative Jennifer Gong-Gershowitz, a Democrat and co-sponsor of the bill. "Empathy comes from understanding. We cannot do better unless we know better."

The Teaching Equitable Asian American Community History Act will now go to the Senate for deliberations and a possible floor vote. If passed, advocates say, it would make Illinois the first state to mandate a unit of Asian-American history in schools.
Sohyun An, a professor at Georgia's Kennesaw State University who has researched how U.S. kids are taught about Asian-American history, sees the Illinois legislation as a step in the right direction. She said schools that do teach Asian-American history often do so in a way that depicts people of Asian descent as either a military or economic threat.

Click the link in bio to read more via Reuters
Image via @nbcnews
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Repost @nowthisnews The Senate voted to advance an

Repost @nowthisnews The Senate voted to advance anti-Asian hate crimes legislation in a widely bipartisan vote on Wednesday. However, six Republican senators — Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO), Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR), Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS), Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), and Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) — voted against it.⁠
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The bill, officially titled the COVID-19 Hates Crimes Act, is led by Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI) and Rep. Grace Meng (D-NY). The act aims to help make it easier to publicly report pandemic-related hate crimes and would create a new position at the Justice Department to help the agency review such reports faster.⁠
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Conversations around mental health issues are stil

Conversations around mental health issues are still a taboo discusssion among AAPI. As we go through these difficult times, we are sharing submissions to help open up the conversation about mental health with hopes to normalize the discussion within our community and help others.

@rod_knee shares his struggles with mental health. Even with a good support system of friends and family, it may still be difficult to tell them what you are going through. The same friends and family being there can also help you through the toughest of times and give you hope. Swipe to read Rodney's mental health struggles and what keeps him going.

Have a story you are willing to share? DM us! Submissions can be kept annonymous.
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Repost @nytimes We asked 28 Asian and Asian-Americ

Repost @nytimes We asked 28 Asian and Asian-American photographers to show us what love looks like in a time of anti-Asian hate. ⁣
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“This is my 97-year-old grandmother, Kim Gap Soon,” the photographer Peter Ash Lee writes. “When I see the senseless attacks on elders in the U.S., it breaks my heart to think that anyone would want to hurt these grandmas and grandpas who suffered so much and made so many sacrifices for us.”⁣
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The artists’ photos show the people, places, activities, objects and memories that have helped them keep love close, in a moment filled with worry and hate. ⁣
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“I’m connecting to my lineage with my elders that are in the afterlife and those who are still alive in these images,” the photographer Elizabeth Wirija writes. “Hearing of the tragic attacks on Asian elders and others made me want to dig into my history and find the resilience and strength within my blood.”⁣
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Tap the link in our bio to see more moments of intimacy, connection and community through their eyes, and to read an essay by @pronounced_ing. Photos by @peterashlee, @heathersten, @kathylo15, @eliwirija and @brendangeorgeko

"When it comes to Asian American innovation and ag

"When it comes to Asian American innovation and agency, we are often legible when we are serivce to larget structures and art" @ocean_vuong on the perception of Asian American artist from Ocean Vuong: 2019-2020 A/P/A Artist-in-Residence

Serch for Ocean Vuong: 2019-2020 A/P/A Artist-in-Residence to watch the full clip. Clip credit to @maymaylisacatz .

Credit: "Ocean Vuong: Artist-in-Residence Welcome Event", hosted by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU (@APAInstitute) and filmed by NYU TV on October 2, 2019.

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AA NOW Profiles highlight Asian Americans and Asia

AA NOW Profiles highlight Asian Americans and Asian American who have made positive contributions to the Asian American community.

@cefaan is a Korean American news reporter for @abc7ny New York and former Sergeant in the U.S. Army Reserve. In addition to covering breaking news, Kim has reported extensively about poverty in New York’s Asian American community. He has also shed light on hate crimes against Asian Americans and has even been targeted while on camera.

In 2017, he was attacked on camera during a live broadcast. In 2019, while reporting on Hasidic Jewish schools open in Brooklyn, a stranger said to Kim “Come here chinky, let me give you a little corona”

Just last month, Kim was one of the first to report about the 36 year old Asian man who was stabbled in the back in Manhattan and reported on the 52 year old Asian woman pushed to the ground in Flushing, Queens.

“They’re all kind of personal to me, if that makes sense, right?” Kim said. “You look at a 71-year-old, like last week, or whatever it was two weeks ago. She reminds me of my mom. My mom was, you know, in her late 60s a few years back and got mugged. And she fought back. And you know, I feel like it’s not just an Asian thing, right? It’s a human thing.”

Recently he was part of a 20/20 special report on the Atlanta Spa shootings featuring fellow Asian American reporters @dionlimtv @jujuchangabc @evapilgrim and others.

Do you know someone or a business you’d like to share? DM us!
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