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CROSS-RACIAL SOLIDARITY
The Asian American Racial Justice Toolkit
Serve the People at the Bottom: An AAWW article on Yuri Kochiyama
Not Just A 'Black Thing': An Asian-American's Bond With Malcolm X on NPR Code Switch
Asian American Solidarity from Civil Rights Movement to Black Lives Matter by UCLA
LABOR RIGHTS
7 Labor Activists You Should Know About for Asian Pacific American Heritage Month
How Chinese American Women Changed U.S. Labor History by Huiying B. Chan
The work that makes all other work possible by Ai-Jen Poo
ZINES
Asian American Writers Workshops
Asian American Feminism Collective
INTERSECTIONALITY: DISABILITY
What It’s Like Being Disabled And Asian In America by Wendy Lu
Asian Pacific Americans with Disabilities: Our Stories, Our Lives with Alice Wong
What is Disability Justice? By Sins Invalid
Addressing the Criminalization of Disability from a Disability Justice Framework: Centring The Experiences of Disabled Queer Trans Indigenous and People of Colour By Abla Abdelhadi
Disability in an Ableist World by Lydia X.Z. Brown
6 Ways Your Social Justice Activism Might Be Ableist by Carolyn Zaikowski
Beyond Disability Rights; Disability Justice: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
INTERSECTIONALITY: SEXUAL ORIENTATION
Breathing Fire: Remembering Asian Pacific American Activism in Queer History by Amy Sueyoshi
Unspoken: LGBTQ Asian Pacific Islander Stories by CUNY
ACTIVISM & ORGANIZING
My Role in a Social Change Ecosystem by Deepa Iyer
Pods and Pod Mapping by Mia Mingus
Mapping Our Roles for Social Change in Times of Crisis with SpeakOut Ed Talks
Pod Mapping 101: A Transformative Justice Alternative by Jeanessa Mendoza
NONPROFIT INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
Continuum on Becoming a Transformative Anti-Oppression Organization by AORTA
Nonprofit Industrial Complex 101: A Primer On How It Upholds Inequity And Flattens Resistance by Sidra Morgan-Montoya
Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex by Erica West
The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex with Ruth Wilson Gilmore
TRANSFORMATIVE JUSTICE
Transformative Justice: A Brief Description by Mia Mingus
Still Choosing to Leap: Building Alternatives by Mia Mingus
What is Transformative Justice? with Barnard Center for Research on Women
Everyday Practices of Transformative Justice with Barnard Center for Research on Women
LANGUAGE JUSTICE
How to Build Language Justice by Antena Aire
Challenging ableism through language justice by Rachele
PACIFIC ISLANDER HISTORY
The Struggle For Hawaiian Sovereignty - Introduction by Cultural Survival
Mauna Kea Protests: Native Hawaiian Activists Are Fighting for Their Sacred Land by Katherine Plumhoff
The History of Oceania: Every Year
‘Biba Guåhan!’: How Guam’s Indigenous Activists Are Confronting Military Colonialism By Chris Gelardi and Sophia Perez
The long road to nuclear justice for the Marshallese people by Olivia Paschal
INDIGENOUS HISTORY & KNOWLEDGE
Learn whose land you’re on: Native-Land.ca
The Emergence of the Breath of Life Theory by Blackstock
Voting is not Harm Reduction - An Indigenous Perspective
Indigenous storytelling as a political lens by Tai Simpson
Murdered & Missing Indigenous Peoples: A Conversation to Help Call Our Relatives Home by Keioshiah P.