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Asian/Asian American Faculty and Staff Association

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Asian/Asian American Faculty and Staff Association
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Off-Campus Resources

Asian American Racial Justice Resources

  • Asian American Racial Justice Toolkit – is a project of love from the grassroots, from and by Asian American communities. As Asian Americans, we believe that our liberation is tied to Black liberation and we continue to dream about a world where all of our people will be free. The toolkit would not have been possible without the following organizations and individuals:

Book(s)

  • Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex by Angela Chen
  • Everyone was Kung Fu Fighting by Vijay Prasad
  • Karma of Brown Folks by Vijay Prasad
  • Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
  • Minor Feelings by Cathy Park Hong
  • Patron Saints of Nothing by Randy Ribay
  • Strangers from Different Shores by Ronald Takaki
  • The Body Papers: A Memoir by Grace Ralusan
  • The Making of Asian America: A History by Erica Lee
  • Unsettled by Eric Tangs
  • Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White by Frank Wu
  • You have the Right to Remain Fat by Virgie Tovar

International Organization(s)

Local Austin, Asian Supermarket

  • 99 Ranch
  • Asahi Imports
  • Filipino Asian Market
  • Hana World Market
  • Hana Yang Market
  • Hong Kong SuperMarket
  • MT Supermarket

Local Austin, Texas Community Organization

Local Houston, Texas Community Organization

Local Austin, Texas Community Organization

Mental Health Resources

  • Asian Mental Health Collective (AMHC) – to normalize and de-stigmatize mental health within the Asian community. AMHC aspires to make mental health easily available, approachable, and accessible to Asian communities worldwide.
  • Ayana – strives to address the strong lack of engagement between minorities and the mental health care industry which arises as a result of cost, stigma, and lack of cultural competency. They achieve this by matching users with licensed professionals that share their unique traits, values, and sensibilities.
  • Brown Girl Therapy – First/largest mental health community for children of immigrants
  • Deaf Counseling – Deaf Counseling Center is a Deaf-owned and operated counseling and consulting practice staffed by Deaf licensed professional therapists. We specialize in working with Deaf people and their families.
  • Fireweed Collective – offers mental health education and mutual aid through a Healing Justice lens.
  • Inclusive Therapists – online directory that matches people with culturally responsive, LGBTQ+ affirming therapist that celebrates your identity
  • National Queer And Trans Therapists Of Color Network – (NQTTCN) is a healing justice organization committed to transforming mental health for queer and trans people of color (QTPoC). They work at the intersection of movements for social justice and the field of mental health to integrate healing justice into both of these spaces. Their overall goal is to increase access to healing justice resources for QTPoC.
  • Pride Counseling – Professional online counseling for the LGBTQ community. Get matched to a licensed therapist. Communicate via phone, video, and messaging.
  • Additional resources

News Outlet(s)

National Organization(s)

National Organizations Specifically for Disabilities

National Organizations Specifically for LGBTQIA+

Podcast(s)

Professional Development(s)

State-Wide Resources in Texas

Scholarships

Youtube Video

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