Stanford AASA

03/20/2021

Content Warning: Violence

Dear Broader Community,

This has been an extremely difficult week for our community as we have suffered great losses with the recent shootings in Atlanta. Several Asian massage parlors were targeted resulting in the deaths of eight innocent lives, six of whom were Asian women: Soon Chung Park, Hyun Jung Grant, Suncha Kim, Yong Yue, Delaina Ashley Yaun, Paul Andre Michels, Xiaojie Tan, and Daoyou Feng. We honor them all and may they rest in power.

This is not an isolated incident of violence or anti-Asian sentiment. Anti-Asian sentiment persists due to centuries of American imperialization in Asia and the COVID pandemic has only increased the number of attacks on Asian Americans in recent times. Each day more of our community members are becoming the targets of hate crimes, adding to the 3,800+ cases that have already been reported since the beginning of the pandemic. Our community is hurting, and we demand justice for all those who have been oppressed by institutions that perpetuate white supremacy.

Attacks like the one in Atlanta weigh heavily on all of us who worry about the personal safety of ourselves and our loved ones. Stanford AASA will continue to fight for justice for Asian Americans on and off campus. We have the right to be angry. We have the right to demand justice. And, we call upon Stanford’s administration to provide better access to resources for Asian American students.

In strength and solidarity,
The Stanford Asian American Students’ Association

Non-Exhaustive List of Resources and Ways to Get Involved:
Stop AAPI Hate GoFundMe (https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-aapi-community-fund)
Red Canary Song (https://www.redcanarysong.net/)
AAPI Journalists Therapy Relief Fund (https://www.gofundme.com/f/AAPI-journalists-therapy-relief-fund)
Georgia AAPI Community (https://actionnetwork.org/fundraising/support-georgias-asian-american-community/)
Hate is a Virus (https://hateisavirus.org/)
Asian Americans Advancing Justice Donations (https://secure.donationpay.org/aajc/)
Asian Americans Advancing Justice, Atlanta Chapter Donations (https://www.advancingjustice-atlanta.org/donate)
Asian Americans Advancing Justice, Atlanta Direct to Victims and Families Donations (https://actionnetwork.org/fundraising/support-georgias-asian-american-community/)
HyunJungKim GoFundMe (https://www.gofundme.com/f/in-memory-of-hyunjungkim-to-support-my-brother-i)
GoFundMe for grandma that was recently attacked in SF (https://www.gofundme.com/f/2b8zh292uo)

We also support the work that the A3C has done in compiling a comprehensive list of resources at the following link: https://a3c.stanford.edu/

01/03/2021

Join AASA for our 25th annual and first virtually held Listen to the Silence Conference on the week of February 21st, 2021: "Strengthening Solidarity: Joining Forces in a Distanced World"

We hope everyone is staying healthy and safe during this time of year. As we head into 2021, we are excited to announce we will be holding the annual Asian American Issues conference, Listen to the Silence (LTS). Listen to the Silence is Stanford's annual Asian American issues conference, hosted by the Asian American Students' Association (AASA.) It was first held in 1995 out of a need to increase the visibility of Asian American issues as well as the conditions of the Asian American community.

As our community members work together for this conference, we have one workshop already confirmed: South Asians for Black Lives, hosted by Malikah. This program will be aimed at calling in the South Asian community to dismantle anti-Blackness and join the racial solidarity movement. The program is focused on education and awareness within the South Asian community through social media, monthly newsletter, webinars, and an in person cohort based program.

High schoolers, college students, and community members are all welcome to attend! The virtual conference is FREE. We hope you will join us.
Keynote Speakers and potential Concert Performers will be announced soon.
Week of February 21st, 2021 save the dates to your calendar!
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CHECK OUT OUR WEBSITE HERE:
http://aasa.stanford.edu/lts.html
If you want to see what happened at last year's LTS conference, you can find out all about it here : http://aasa.stanford.edu/listen-to-the-silence.html
Follow us on Facebook at Stanford AASA for updates!
If you have any questions, please feel free to email us at [email protected].
Thank you to all of our sponsors for making this event possible.

05/30/2020

Hi All,

AASA Elections are happening this Sunday (tomorrow!) 3-4PM PST on Zoom.


If you want to submit any last minute nominations please do so here - https://tinyurl.com/AASA2020

In order to attend elections, please register at this form so we can send you the Zoom link right before the meeting to prevent Zoom bombing! https://tinyurl.com/AASA20E


Additionally, please take the time to read our last post + donate if you have the means to https://www.facebook.com/stanfordaasa/posts/3297604930258608?__tn__=-R

Thank you all, and I hope you are staying healthy and well. (Apologies for the number of links in this post!)

05/29/2020

Dear Community,

We hope you all are doing well and staying healthy during these times. We wanted to share an article that is a good resource for Asian Americans that want to support the Black community but are unsure where to start. (The article has also been updated with links to support funds - please consider donating if you have the means to!)

In addition to the steps written in the article, we ask that you also confront anti-Blackness head on in your own life - especially when it shows up in our close communities/peers.
In the comments of this post we will post a few other resources, one of them being Letters for Black Lives - a multilingual and culturally sensitive resource to begin the conversation of anti-Blackness and racial justice.

In light of and ongoing police violence, how can the Asian and Asian American community show up for our Black siblings?

05/16/2020

Vote YES for the AASA annual grant in elections THIS MON-TUES (May 18-19) to support 15 Asian-American groups on campus!

05/13/2020

Hi All,

We just wanted to share this resource that was created by medical students at the University of Washington, Emory University, and Yale University that features a brief history of Anti-Asian sentiments through systemic racism and how it relates to the current COVID-19 climate/health discrepancies. (Very much related to what was covered in last night's Roundtable Event!)

Thank you so much to those who are doing wonderful work to highlight how oppressive systems of white supremacy and institutionalized racism have affected not only our own communities, but other communities of colour as well!

(Works Cited - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1z_lAcbZpuZ9MJGiLbloPwTS8AcF_jXOchgy7AOGNB6w/edit?usp=sharing&fbclid=IwAR2ImAteh4fmkgIN_lX5M3HWFi-zmKqEldyg_NhYLBvZinTnJX0Jw_RqL5U)

05/11/2020

Please join us for a roundtable discussion on the Asian American Experience during the current COVID-19 pandemic featuring Dr. Will Gow, Professor Judy Wu, Professor Russell Jeung, and Linda Lee! The discussion will focus on current challenges, the historical perspective, and community responses.

The event will be taking place tomorrow, Tuesday May 12th at 6PM PST, so please be sure to register at bit.ly/asianroundtablepandemic beforehand.

This programming was made possible by the Stanford Asian American Activities Center, Asian American Studies, Stanford AASA, Okada, and the Stanford Asian Pacific American Alumni Club!

05/04/2020

Dear Community,

Please join us for a special preview of the new PBS documentary series "Asian Americans" today at 6:30PM PST! This episode highlights Filipino farm worker leader Larry Itliong, the Third World Liberation Front, and the Viet Nam War and its fallout.

This event will also feature a virtual Q & A afterwards with Professor Gordon Chang and Lecturer William Gow and is open to Stanford students, alumni, faculty, and staff.

Please be sure to register here for the screening - http://bit.ly/screeningasianamericans

This programming was made possible by the Stanford Asian American Activities Center, the Asian American Students' Association, Asian American Studies, Okada, and the Stanford Asian Pacific American Alumni Club.

05/01/2020

The Students of Color Coalition (which AASA is a member of) has published a statement on the recent usage of the n-word by a non-Black professor in a CSRE class. We sincerely hope that the department takes the incident seriously, centers Black voices regarding this situation, and takes accountability and action for the hurt caused.
Please take the time to read the full statement in the original post below.

04/23/2020

Class of 2024 Admits,

Thank you for joining us during yesterday's OSE panel and breakout group session (despite the Zoom hiccup oop!)

If you are interested in learning more about a few of AASA's subgroups and more perspectives regarding the Asian American community on campus please be sure to check out the upcoming admit events!

More information about the events can be found on the Stanford Asian American Activities Center's website at a3c.stanford.edu

Also be sure to check out AASA's website at aasa.stanford.edu to learn more about us!

Congrats on your acceptance and we hope to see you around next school year !



*EDIT - The A3C will be having their Admit event on Sunday (not Saturday) Apologies for the confusion!

02/26/2020

Photos from Camera One. Camera Two will be uploaded soon!


- Key Note Speaker featuring Jane Kim
- Featured Panel with Adrian Bonifacio, Sakhone Lasaphangthong, Barnali Ghosh, and Anirvan Chatterjee
- Concert featuring nix
- Various workshop photos