At the end of May, Yale student Eileen Huang wrote and published “A Letter from a Yale Student to the Chinese American Community," which calls on Chinese Americans to reflect on their shared history with other minorities, protest against White supremacy, and engage in difficult conversations with other AAPI and non-Black folx on anti-Blackness in their own communities. Her letter has already gotten over 15,000 shares on the original publishing platform, Chinese American, and has gone viral and been read over 100,000 times on WeChat, the Chinese messaging and social media app. This week, Eileen comes onto the podcast to talk about her letter, its reactions and reverberations in various Asian/American communities, and how she’s planning on taking her sentiments and activism from one viral letter to a full-blown long-term project.

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Read Eileen’s letter: https://chineseamerican.org/p/31571?fbclid=IwAR3vudelR27Uz-OYmuftV-NN6GezU74Qkuyhl4zxyWnv6PUmmeY-q0jDMuM.

Ways that you can support the Black Lives Matter movement & resources/articles on Black and Asian solidarity: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1P6mr1TFS-27MUAlYMg94XUMXxS0TnCWFTw85R0BX7v8/edit?usp=sharing.

This episode comes a day after Juneteenth (June 19), a holiday that commemorates the emancipation of enslaved people in the U.S. and celebrates Black American/African American freedom and achievement. However, it’s also a reminder that we have a long way to go in seeking racial justice—we must acknowledge the ways that modern-day slavery presents itself and the contemporary oppression that Black people face. What is needed is sustained celebration and support—Black lives matter, not just today, but always—but many people out there may not know how exactly to go about doing that. So I asked my friends Emily Ndiokho, Amiri Tulloch, Michael Codrington, and Jungwoo Park to join me to have a conversation about Black and Asian solidarity. In part 2 of this conversation, we talk about performative social media activism, whether corporations and educational institutions can be anti-racist, what Asian/Americans and other non-Black people can do to be better allies of the Black community, and more. 

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The murder of George Floyd and the mass protests that have been happening all over the country have pushed many Asian/Americans and other non-Black people to begin having difficult conversations about the biases, racism, and anti-Blackness that exist within themselves and their own communities. Although this is great to see, what is needed is sustained support—Black lives matter, not just today, but always—but many people out there may not know how exactly to go about doing that. So I asked my friends Emily Ndiokho, Amiri Tulloch, Michael Codrington, and Jungwoo Park to join me to have a conversation about Black and Asian solidarity. In part I of this conversation, we talk about the common narratives in the histories of both of our races, how race inherently dehumanizes, obstacles that stand in the way of solidarity, and more.

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Breonna Taylor. Ahmaud Arbery. George Floyd. Countless others. Black lives matter today and every day.

In this episode, I introduce myself and talk about the major events in my life that have shaped me to be the person I am today and how those events have led me to make a life commitment to social justice. I also elaborate on what concrete things I’m currently doing to try to be a better friend and ally of the Black community and other people of color. Lastly, I answer the questions you sent me about what I’ve been up to in quarantine, how identifying as Asian American is empowering, and how being a “bad Asian” (i.e. someone who’s radical and not complacent with the system) is important to me.

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Joliana Yee and Sheraz Iqbal are the Director and Assistant Director of Yale University’s Asian American Cultural Center. This week, I bring the two of them on the podcast to talk about who they are, how they got started working at the AACC, diversity at Yale, how we should approach difficult conversations about race, and much more.

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In 2014, Narendra Modi became the 14th Prime Minister of India. Modi, his political party (the Bharatiya Janata Party, aka BJP), and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) all subscribe to a fascist political ideology called Hindutva. Three Yale students come onto Homecoming and discuss Hindutva, Modi’s regime, and Students Against Hindutva Ideology (SAHI), an inter-university, inter-faith organization they founded that educates people about and challenges fascism and extreme Hindu nationalism.

Learn more about/contact SAHI: https://www.studentsagainsthindutvaideology.org

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LJ Flores and Jasmine Rios join us to share what it was like to grow up Filipino in their respective hometowns, the differences between Filipino and Filipino American experiences, reflections on their race/identity while navigating predominantly white spaces, and the Filipino community at Yale.

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In this episode, we interview Kelly Long and Biman Xie about the overt racism and violence towards Asian Americans in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as how the coronavirus has affected them, their communities, and social/political systems.

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Welcome to Homecoming, a podcast that features the diverse stories and experiences of AAPI folx. Join us for our first episode, in which we talk about what Homecoming is, who we are, and why we created a podcast like this! We also briefly discuss how COVID-19 has impacted us and other Asians out there.

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