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“I Finally Let That Mindset and Hindrance Go and Learned to Embrace Who I Am”: Healing Through Affirmations, Decolonization, and NAPAWF
This article is part of a series of articles commemorating Mental Health Awareness Month, in partnership with National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum (NAPAWF). We recognize that the stigma around mental health care in Asian American communities, in particular often keeps people from seeking help or having transparent conversations about the importance of mental health care. Mochi believes that caring for our mental health is an essential piece of caring for our overall health and well-being. We hope this series will shed light on how mental health care positively impacted these writers.
Hate incidents include verbal harassment, avoidance/shunning, being coughed at/spat on, physical assault, workplace discrimination, vandalism, refusal of service or getting barred from an establishment or transport, and online harassment. Asian American women reported race, ethnicity and gender as the reasons they experienced hate incidents.
“I think it has to do with some of the stereotypes that exist about Asian American women. That we won’t fight back, that we are quiet and submissive, docile types. So that goes into the calculation of people who instigate these instances to pick on women, because the chances of us fighting back – in their head – is much less, that we are more vulnerable,” said Sung Yeon Choimorrow, executive director for NAPAWF.
The six Asian American women killed in the Atlanta shootings represented a diverse Asian American and Pacific Islander community. Yet their deaths hit home for so many AAPI women.
05/26/2021 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 05/26/2021 14:32
ASSISTANT SPEAKER CLARK, MENENDEZ INTRODUCE LEGISLATION TO REPORT ON THE STATUS OF REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS AROUND THE WORLD
ASSISTANT SPEAKER CLARK, MENENDEZ INTRODUCE LEGISLATION TO REPORT ON THE STATUS OF REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS AROUND THE WORLD
The Reproductive Rights are Human Rights Act would permanently require the State Department to report on the status of reproductive rights in its annual human rights reports.
Washington, D.C. - Today, Assistant Speaker Katherine Clark (D-MA-5) and Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Menendez (D-NJ) introduced the Reproductive Rights are Human Rights Act to direct the State Department to permanently include reviews on the status of reproductive rights in its annual human rights reports. Clark was joined by 122 House Members in reintroducing this legislation, and the Senate legislation has 22 cosponsors.