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Let’s Explore Asian & Pacifica History, Culture, and Self-Advocacy

I have way too many resources to share and no time to create a spinoff website to organize it all. So for now: SO MANY RESOURCES BELOW!

Click here for the full collection: 75+ Stories about Asian & Pacifica Peoples History & Culture

You’re not going to cover this in school. So pick a few books to read this May about Asian & Pacifica Peoples History.

• Watch How positive stereotypes do harm
• Read more #OwnVoices Asian & Pacifica Peoples Kidlit
• Learn how to spot tokenism in kidlit.
• Discuss with your kids why all the books about AAPI are about food, and how to be a better lunch date, with Delicious Kids Books That Dismantle Anti-Asian Racism.
• Revisiting the issue of disqualification within the AAPI community, understand how the model minority myth silences and targets us.
• Learn how to spot the model minority myth in kidlit.
• Learn how to support AAPI publishers and makers in telling our own stories: Circumventing White Fragility With Adorable Books by Mango & Marigold Press and The Sikh Identity by Saffron Press .
• Wrapping it back around to destigmatizing MHC and anti-sanism: Support the work of the Asian Mental Health Collective. Share out the APA care package. If you’re white, please stop telling Asians to ‘just go find a therapist‘ because it is really hard to find a culturally responsive therapist or mental health support.
• Learn how to respond When you’re Invited To a Racist Birthday Party: Scripts for Handling the Violence of White Peoples ‘Good Intentions’
• Push your local school to  teach kids about Japanese Internment and observe Fred Korematsu Day.

Take Action: Allies & Accomplices

• Adults: Register for free virtual training on bystander intervention to stop anti-Asian/American and Xenophobic harassment

Take Action: For AAPI

• AAPI Care Package
• Destigmatize Mental Health care in the AAPI Community
• Free virtual training: How to Respond when targeted by anti-Asian harassment

More Resources to Dig Deeper

[Video: Radical Cram School: Grace Lee Boggs]

• Vincent Chin & The Birth of The Asian American Rights Movement
• Beware ‘tacking on’ – erasure & representation in the tokenization of Pacifica Peoples under the AAPI umbrella
• Kids Books: Asian & Pacifica Peoples History
• Delicious Asian & Pacifica Food Culture for Kids
• #OwnVoices Asian & Pacifica Kidlit
• Pacifica Peoples Kids Stories
• Normalizing AAPI characters in kidlit
• Why Each Generation Repeats Atrocities: Japanese American Internment & more stories of Japanese American Internment
• #OwnVoices Chinese American Kids Stories
• The Sikh Identity with Saffron Press
• Circumventing White Fragility With Adorable Books by Mango & Marigold Press
• Delicious Kids Books That Dismantle Anti-Asian Racism
• How We Reinforce The Model Myth with Polar Bear Island
• Unpacking Tokenism in a Boy Called Bat
• Panda stories that do not racially code East Asians as Perpetual Foreigners
• Destigmatizing Emotional & Mental Health for Asian & Pacifica Kids
• Delicious stories celebrating Asian & Pacifica food culture
• How postitive stereotypes do harm
• John Oliver explains Asian American identities to non-Asians
• They ALL Eat Worms In China: Orientalism in Kidlit
• The Rise of the Asian Best Friend Trope
• Watch this Simpsons scene on scapegoating (best for kids 4+).

Family Movie Night Reviews for Luminary Braintrust Members

• Nezha
• Mulan
• Kung Fu Panda
• Kung Fu Panda 2
• Kung Fu Panda 3
• Turning Red
• Wish Dragon
• Guardian brothers
• Raya and the Last Dragon
• Big Hero 6
• Next Gen