Thread by @JLeeSoc

My sociological imagination expanded when I chose to READ ACROSS disciplinary boundaries & genres.

I'm ringing in '22 🎆 by giving props to 22 BRILLIANT #AsianAmerican #women political scientists, historians, health researchers, writers & creatives from whom I learn so much 🙏🏼🧵

1/ @ProfJanelleWong, political scientist & co-Director of @AAPIData, wrote this searing piece @Medium about what the media gets wrong about anti-Asian violence & hate. She produces research & draws on it whenever she writes and speaks about #StopAsianHate
stopasianhate.medium.com/what-the-media…

2/ @sarasadhwani (CA Redistricting Commissioner, political scientist, and researcher @AAPIData) co-authored this paper w/@KulkarniManju about the responsiveness of CBOs to #AAPI communities during the #COVID19 pandemic.

sarasadhwani.com/wp-content/upl…

3/ @NinezPonce (Dir @UCLAchpr, Prof @UCLAFSPH & PI #CHIS). Throughout the pandemic, CHIS efforts have been devoted to providing data on overlooked racial & ethnic groups so that decision-makers can create the necessary policies to protect at-risk groups.
healthpolicy.ucla.edu/newsroom/press…

4/ @prof_erikalee historian who testified in Congress:

"The acts of racism & violence facing #AAPIs today are a systemic national tragedy. We call upon our leaders to condemn racism in all of its forms."

Read her full statement for the record ⬇️

docs.house.gov/meetings/JU/JU…

5/ @BethLewWilliams, historian and author of The Chinese Must Go, explains in an interview for @TheTakeaway that the violent racism against the #AAPI population existed long before COVID19 and fits into a deep history of anti-Asian violence in the US.

wnycstudios.org/podcasts/takea…

6/ @ellendwu, historian and author of The Color of Success, rightly notes in this interview for @marieclaire:

"Society usually just thinks about what Asian women are good for and not what is good for Asian women."

marieclaire.com/politics/a3592…

7/ @MarieMyungOkLee, writer-in-residence @Columbia & cherished colleague, wrote this difficult to read and unforgettable piece about the U.S. military's long history of anti-Asian dehumanization.

gen.medium.com/the-u-s-milita…

8/ @minjinlee11, writer-in-residence @AmherstCollege & author of Pachinko, in an interview @Tatlermagazine
“The way we see ourselves and the way the non-Asian western majority may see us are often different, and bridging that difference is a valuable goal”
tatlerasia.com/power-purpose/…

9/ @cathyparkhong "When I read Cathy Park Hong’s Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning, it felt like I was being shaken awake to something I had convinced myself wasn’t real." ~@aliwong

She is one of @TIME's 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE OF 2021!!!
time.com/collection/100…

10/ @rtajima, EVERYONE cheered when Renee Tajima-Peña (@UCLA professor of Asian American Studies) won a Peabody Award for “Asian Americans,” the five-part miniseries she created for @PBS.

newsroom.ucla.edu/dept/faculty/r…

11/ @reappropriate Jenn Fang founded a blog dedicated to Asian American feminism, pop culture and politics. Her perspective is intentionally and deeply intersectional, including this piece on how anti-Asian violence is often inseparable from misogyny.
washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/0…

12/ @dviyer's writing & work focus on solidary and justice:

"alliance building is no longer a question of choice or an option to exercise. Instead, solidarity has become a necessity and an imperative for Asian Americans and all people of color in the US."
aaww.org/twenty-years-l…

13/ @nicolesjchung (author of ALL YOU CAN EVER KNOW) wrote this unforgettable piece questioning whether her White adoptive parents, who struggled to see her as a Korean American woman, would have understood her anger at the rise in anti-Asian violence.
time.com/5948949/anti-a…

14/ @JiayangFan writer whose words ring painfully true:

"It is an unbearable irony how acquainted I am with the feeling of shame. Every time I am called a “chink” or hear a part of my body appraised by a stranger, I feel a familiar heat rising within me."
newyorker.com/news/daily-com…

15/ @rokwon author of THE INCENDIARIES wrote a letter who fellow Asian women after the mass murder in Atlanta
"Still and always, hypersexualized, ignored, gaslit, marginalized, and disrespected as we’ve been, I am so fortified, so alive, when I’m with us."
vanityfair.com/style/2021/03/…

16/ @kimmythepooh reporter who writes @NBCNews @NBCAsianAmerica. In her latest, she wrote about Christian Hall, an Asian American teen, who was killed by state police in a mental health crisis. Footage showed Hall had his hands up when he was shot.
nbcnews.com/news/asian-ame…

17/ @josie_huang who wrote about Japanese American activists who demand reparations for Black Americans as "a moral imperative both as humans and as descendants of people who won redress from the U.S. government for false imprisonment during World War II."
laist.com/news/japanese-…

18/ @CelineShimizu (author, film scholar, and Dean @ucsc) discusses the history of fetishizing Asian women, and how the hypersexual and docile tropes of Asian women translate to the mass shooting in Atlanta.
vox.com/22338807/asian…

19/ @arissaoh historian and author of To Save the Children of Korea, which @ellendwu describes as “indispensable for understanding how war and US military engagements in the Asia-Pacific region have shaped American’s ideas about Asian women and children.” vox.com/culture/223367…

20/ @oiyanpoon helped organize and participated in this @AERA_EdResearch Presidential Panel: "Reckoning with Anti-Asian Violence: Racial Grief, Visionary Organizing, and Educational Responsibility."

An edited transcription of the discussion is here ⬇️
tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…

21/ @meifongwriter, author of One Child, brought attention to anti-Asian violence through findings from an @Ipsos survey conducted for @publicintegrity that has been cited in virtually EVERY piece of proposed legislation.

publicintegrity.org/health/coronav…

22/ #AnneCheng "I was wrong to think a shared global health crisis would save us from racial antagonism. It’s the opposite: The viral crisis has become a vector for the racism that has always spoken in and circulated through the language of contamination."
thenation.com/article/cultur…