Anti-Racism Resources - May 2026
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We feature educational resources in the NAAFA Newsletter to support our community in working to dismantle systemic racism. These resources are also shared on our social media, blog, and website. Resources vary from month to month, and may include historical information, tools for personal reflection, or information about how to get involved and make change. Many of the resources we suggest will be introductory resources, and this information is never intended to be full coverage on the complex and nuanced topics that are chosen each month. We encourage you to continue learning, and we especially hope you will seek out and support scholars, artists, creators, and activists who represent the communities most impacted by the topic of the month.
Content note: resources shared in this feature may include explicit language describing historical and contemporary experiences with racism.
This edition, we invite you to join us in exploring resources about Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month.
12 AAPI Advocates and Organizations You Need to Know - Highlighting a wide variety of AAPI social justice folks, broadening and expanding awareness. Based out of Maryland, but reaching far beyond, this list centers AAPI history makers, working at the intersections of identity and social change.
How Chinese American women are at the intersection of the pressure to be thin - This article sheds light on a research paper that explores and names how racism, sexism, and cultural expectations intersect to shape body surveillance and fatshaming for Chinese American women.
[Video] Alice Wong on Being Told She Wouldn’t Live to Adulthood, The Businessweek Show - Sadly, since last AAPI Heritage month we lost activist Alice Wong. Though primarily known for the Disability Visibility Project, Alice was a fierce advocate for people from all sorts of backgrounds and in all types of bodies. This short interview is a wonderful introduction to her, and I hope it inspires you to spend more time with her work.
[Video] Snapshots of Confinement - This documentary includes stories and pictures of Japanese American families being arrested and thrown into internment camps during World War II. It tells of the determination and resilience of these families and helped transform the propaganda we were told about these camps into the actual truth of what America did to its own people.
Right To Be offers free training and resources to help change BYstanders to UPstanders in fighting racism. Check out the training calendar for BYstander Intervention for Anti-Asian American and Xenophobic Harassment training.
How to Help Zine: A Guide to Peaceful Bystander Intervention - Also from Right to Be, this is a free, printable resource that offers practical, step-by-step guidance for safely responding to harassment, discrimination, and harm.
Tracking Project 2025 - Project 2025 is really being put into practice, as many feared. This in-depth analysis tracks the harms done or in progress of being done to AAPI people and communities that were called for in Project 2025.
[Video] “Go Back to China:” How a Racist Encounter Sparked a Journey Through History - An interview with Michael Luo who explores the history of Chinese Americans in his book, Strangers in the Land: Exclusion, Belonging, and the Epic Story of the Chinese in America.
