Bangladeshi-American Writer, Educator, and Fiber Artist

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Posts tagged StopAAPIHate
Rising Pride: Resistance Beyond Respectability

Ryan Barrett and I discuss Andrew Yang's Washington Post opinion piece, performative patriotism, and the need to see/learn from the parallels with Black liberation movements and the spike in anti-Asian racism this moment is producing. We talk about ways to unlearn (especially the model minority myth), build support systems, and extend kindness/generosity to those experiencing acts of racism/xenophobia. 

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