NAPAWF hosts #AAPIWomenStrong

Excerpts from NAPAWF's insightful panel #AAPIWomenStrong: A National Conversation on Race and Gender after the Atlanta Spa Shootings which aired on Thursday, 3/25/2021.
**Note: These are select, timecoded excerpts from their larger and important discussion which may be found on their Facebook here:
https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?v=810328536499597

0:00 Sung Yeon Choimorrow discusses why this issue is so important
1:10 Representative Grace Meng on the importance of normalizing the As/Am story and early recollections of
2:11 Sung Yeon Choimorrow asks how are you processing the once private conversation around hypersexualization on such a public scale?
2:57 Ai-jen Poo on sharing stories to help our healing, our reckoning, and moving forward
5:09 Representative Grace Meng on realizing our worth
6:25 Teresa Tran shares her experience with racism and how the Asian American experience is not monolithic
10:45 Ai-jen Poo on building power and solidarity

Featuring:
Representative Grace Meng (NY-06)
Ai-jen Poo, Executive Director, National Domestic Workers Alliance
Sung Yeon Choimorrow, Executive Director, National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum
Teresa Tran, NAPAWF Georgia Chapter Member

For more information on NAPAWF visit their website at https://www.napawf.org/

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NAPAWF is focused on building power with AAPI women and girls to influence critical decisions that affect our lives, our families and our communities. Using a reproductive justice framework, they elevate AAPI women and girls to impact policy and drive systemic change in the United States.

NAPAWF was founded in 1996 to realize the vision of 100 AAPI women who recognized the need for an organization that would amplify AAPI women’s stories and experiences. Being seen and heard in the public narrative gives us the power to shape the policy and cultural change needed to gain agency over our lives, families, and communities.

Today, they are mobilizing and building power in 14 cities across the United States to create social, political, and economic change for AAPI women and girls. They also show up in solidarity for other women of color who are experiencing injustice and harms of oppression and marginalization.


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