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COVID-19 & Anti-Asian Harassment: Resources
Duke University Resources for Responding to COVID-19 & Anti-Asian Harassment
- Report harassment and racist incidents to Duke’s Office of Institutional Equity
- File a bias incident report: incident report form / anonymous report form
- Duke University also offers many counseling options for remote care for all students, as well as coordination of resources from a student’s local community. If you find yourself or a fellow Duke student struggling with the situation, please make sure to take advantage of Duke’s resources, which can be found and contacted below
- DukeReach: 919-681-2455 or dukereach@duke.edu
- Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS): 919-660-1000
- Religious Life at Duke
- Mental telehealth support: BlueDevilsCare.duke.edu
- Contact Duke’s Asian Students Association (ASA) on Facebook or via email: asaatduke@gmail.com
National Resources for Responding to COVID-19 & Anti-Asian Harassment
- For immediate response during harassment:
- Consider downloading personal safety apps such as Noonlight, Safezone, and Bsafe that are able to assign a virtual guardian, location tracking, fake phone calls, and quickly contact authorities in the case that you experience harassment
- Ask for a friend to stay on the phone with you if entering a dangerous situation
- Resources for legal advice or assistance with racial discrimination:
- Additional resources:
- #IAmNotAVirus: an online collection of portraits of Asian American volunteers responding to the xenophobia of the Coronavirus outbreak
- #WashTheHate: an online campaign that recounts stories of Asian American discrimination while hand-washing to condemn anti-Asian bullying and to promote necessary hygiene during the outbreak
Anti-Asian Violence Resource Guide
- Resources on the History of Anti-Asian Violence:
- Anti-Asian Violence Resource Guide
- The Muddled History of Anti-Asian Violence from the New Yorker
- A Literary Guide to Combat Anti-Asian Racism in America
- Duke Asian American Alliance Anti-Asian Violence Discussion Guide
- DUKE AADS Anti-Asian Harassment Resources Guide
- University of Colorado Anti-Asian Racism and Covid-19 Guide
- PBS documentary series on Asian Americans
- Mental Health Resources:
- Racial Trauma Toolkit by Boston College
- Asian Pacific Islander Desi American Therapist Directory
- @AsiansforMentalHealth
- @SubtleAsianMentalHealth on Facebook: Offering free 1:1 supportive listening sessions
- @LaichienTherpay: Offering Asian Pacific American Pay-as-you-wish group therapy
- Crisis Line: 1-800-273-TALK; Asian Languages 1-877-990-8585; Crisis Text Line TEXT ‘CONNECT’ to 741741
- Fundraisers & Organizations to Support:
- Longer active list of Asian-American Community Resource/Donation Lists
- Welcome to Chinatown
- Provides financial support to NYC Chinatown’s small businesses
- Heart of Dinner
- Delivers care packages of food to NYC’s elderly Asian American community
- NAPAWF*NYC
- Builds Asian, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander women & gender nonbinary power in NY
- GAPIMNY
- Empowers queer and trans Asian Pacific Islanders
- MinKwon Center
- Protecting Flushing, NY from gentrification & displacement
- Collection of GoFundMe’s directed toward support Asian/American communities
- https://www.gofundme.com/c/act/stop-aapi-hate
- Oakland Asian Health Collective Fund
- Filipino Community Center in San Francisco
- Los Angeles SE Asian Community Alliance
- Asian Prisoner Support
- EPIC – Empowering Pacific Islander Communities
- APIEquality – APIENC’s role is to build alternatives—real solutions—that are centered in our communities, build self-determination, and promote healing and restoration for the land and the people. All of our programs are led by QTAPI members who are directly impacted by the issues we address.
- AAPI Women Lead focuses on fighting for Asian women and girls right through their #ImReady movement (which was inspired by the #MeToo movement).
- Dear Asian Youth
- We are a group of Asian youths striving to uplift marginalized communities through education, activism, and celebration.
- Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund
- Red Canary Song – Grassroots collective of Asian and Migrant sex workers, organizing transnationally
- Asian American Feminist Collective
COVID-19: Statement of Solidarity and Support
Statement of Solidarity and Support Against Anti-Asian Racism and Violence | Asian American & Diaspora Studies Program
March 27, 2020
As the novel Coronavirus/COVID-19 continues to spread in these unsettled times, the staff and faculty of Duke’s Asian American & Diaspora Studies Program (AADS) renew our commitment to fostering an environment of mutual support and advocacy despite the social and physical distance between us now. Wherever you may be sheltering, on campus or away, we hope that you and your loved ones are weathering these uncertain times and are practicing self-care, mutual support and compassion. As educators, we are committed to supporting your learning and teaching goals in creative ways while mediated through technology and physical distance. Here is a community-initiated open-source syllabus for teaching and sharing resources on this topic. We acknowledge that just as frightening as the spread of the Coronavirus, is the concerning rise of anti-Asian and particularly anti-Chinese harassment and violence both online and physical in the U.S. and around the globe. This current trend shows how fear and xenophobia have been used to justify racist sentiments and actions against people of Asian descent. Such aggressions are not new and are embedded in a long history of anti-Asian violence in the US and elsewhere.
As a program dedicated to teaching about and fighting the unequal dynamics of race and ethnicity within the U.S. and within structures of transnational movements and dislocations of people, Duke’s Asian American & Diaspora Studies Program strongly condemns racism and hate toward all people, and we stand in solidarity with those who are being viciously targeted today. We advocate for a critical understanding of how ideas about race and racial difference take shape over time with the larger goal of exposing and dismantling such racist beliefs and attacks. We oppose expressions of fear and anxiety of COVID-19 manifest as hate toward Asian people and people of Asian descent and urge the Duke community and others to stand with us against these cowardly acts of violence. Duke’s Office for Institutional Equity is one local resource for assistance and reporting for those who have experienced discrimination or harassment based upon race, national origin or other protected categories of identity, at 919-684-8222, or oie-help@duke.edu. STOP AAPI HATE and Asian Americans Advancing Justice are national reporting sites. Other resources are available at our partner organization NCAAT. AADS will continue to update our program site with local and national resources for addressing these concerns. Please share these and other available resources to help those who have been the target of inflammatory racist rhetoric and violence.
