Fight Anti-Asian Racism
Curated by Drs. Catherine Costigan and Danu Anthony Stinson (University of Victoria) and updated by Growth & Solidarity Research Team
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Swan Vancouver
Culturally-Specialized Supports & Advocacy for Im/Migrant Women Engaged in Indoor Sex Work
Red Canary Song
Grassroots collective of Asian & migrant sex workers, organizing transnationally
Butterfly
Supports Asian and migrant sex workers
Chinese Canadian Council (Toronto Chapter)
Runs a site for hate crime reporting
National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum
Mission to build power with AAPI women and girls
Violence Against Asian Americans Continues: How You Can Help the AAPI Community by Andrea Wurzburger
Organizations that support the AAPI community amid increased racial violence
Learn
Faces of Racism
A resource with multiple translations for Asian communities to discuss and respond to subtle racism
Ibram X. Kendi’s Antiracist Reading List
ACLU Podcast Activist Amanda Nguyen on the Rise of Attacks on Asian Americans (Episode 144)
No One is Paying Attention
A comic about the rise in anti-Asian crimes by Lisa Lim
The Other Problematic Outbreak: As the coronavirus spreads across the globe, so does racism by Yasmeen Serhan and Timothy McLaughlin
Racism and the history of Asian sex work by Jeff Yang
Chinese Canadians share their experiences of racism during COVID-19 by Jessica Lee
Stop AAPI Hate released the number of AAPI hate crimes that were reported this year
We Can’t Ignore the Recent Attacks on the Asian American Community by Yujia Ding
“Other”: A Brief History of American Xenophobia
Art Workers Mobilize to Combat Anti-Asian Racism
Anti-Racism For Kids 101: Starting To Talk About Race by Books for Littles
Your Kids Aren’t Too Young to Talk About Race by Katrina Michie
‘Model Minority’ Myth Again Used as a Racial Wedge Between Asians and Blacks by Kat Chow
My White Friend Asked Me on Facebook to Explain White Privilege. I Decided to Be Honest – by Lori Lakin Hutcherson
Take Action
UVic Anti-Racism Education Program
75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice – By Corinne Shutack
Crowd-Sourced Anti-racism resources
Wu (2020) Allyship in the Time of Coronavirus: Resistance to the New Yellow Peril. BC Psychologist
Anti-Asian Discrimination and Antiracist Bystander Behaviors amid the COVID-19 Outbreak preprint by Pricilla Lui
Action Resource Plan for Asian Americans and Allies by Annie Wu & Kim Saira
Take Action in your classes
Anti-Racism Teacher Resources from the BC Teachers’ Federation
Anti-Racist Classroom Reading List by Nura Ali and Annie Canto
Image of Different Forms of White Supremacy from the Social Planning Council of Winnipeg
8 Terms Used in Anti-Racism Work Explained
Systemic Interventions in Clinical Practice
Chou, Yan, & Costigan (2020). A Primer on Chinese Canadian Mental Health and COVID-19 Racism. BC Psychologist
Corneau, S., & Stergiopoulis, V. (2012). More than being against it: Anti-racism and anti-oppression in mental health services. Transcultural Psychiatry, 49, 261-282. https://doi.org/10.1177/1363461512441594
Motulsky, S. L., Gere, S. H., Saleem, R., & Trantham, S. M. (2014). Teaching social justice in counseling psychology. The Counseling Psychologist, 42, 1058–1083. https://doi.org/10.1177/0011000014553855
Ratts, M.J., Singh, A.A., Nassar‐McMillan, S., Butler, S.K. and McCullough, J.R. (2016). Multicultural and Social Justice Counseling Competencies: Guidelines for the Counseling Profession. Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development, 44: 28-48. https://doi:10.1002/jmcd.12035
Sue, D. W., Alsaidi, S., Awad, M. N., Glaeser, E., Calle, C. Z., & Mendez, N. (2019). Disarming racial microaggressions: Microintervention strategies for targets, White allies, and bystanders. American Psychologist, 74(1), 128–142. https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0000296
Whiteness Matters: Exploring White Privilege, Color Blindness and Racism in Psychotherapy by Margaret Clausen