REPOST: An Open Dialogue on Anti-Asian Racism
Please join us for an open discussion on anti-Asian racism
This is a repost on behalf of the Asian & Asian American Faculty & Staff Council. Original event post here.
Please join other members of the Asian & Asian American
Faculty & Staff Council for an open conversation on the recent tragedy in
Atlanta and anti-Asian racism. We'll hold a space to reflect and to discuss
ideas for how to best support our Asian American student, faculty, and staff
community.
TODAY, Monday, March 22nd from 5-6pm
Join Webex meeting
ID: 1205902736
Password: JSRRJYmG
(US) +1 202-860-2110 (toll)
Access code: 120 590 2736
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REPOST: Action items and resources against anti-Asian racism
On the surge of hate crimes against AAPI
This is a repost on behalf of the Asian & Asian American Faculty & Staff Council. Original post here.
On the surge of hate crimes against Asian, Asian-Americans
and Pacific-Islanders (AAPI), we want to share updated data and resources with
our community.
According to Stop AAPI Hate’s March 2021 national report,
3,795 incidents of discrimination against AAPIs were reported from March 19 to
February 28, 2021 via the Stop AAPI Hate reporting center. Below are a few
highlights. Visit https://stopaapihate.org/reportsreleases/ for the full
national report and other reports.
Verbal harassment (68.1%) and shunning (20.5%) (i.e., the
deliberate avoidance of Asian Americans) make up the two largest proportions of
the total incidents reported.
Physical assault (11.1%) comprises the third largest
category of the total incidents. Civil rights violations — e.g., workplace
discrimination, refusal of service, and being barred from transportation —
account for 8.5% of the total incidents.
Chinese are the largest ethnic group (42.2%) that report
experiencing hate, followed by Koreans (14.8%), Vietnamese (8.5%), and Filipinos
(7.9%).
Women report hate incidents 2.3 times more than men.
Businesses are the primary site of discrimination (35.4%),
followed by public streets (25.3%), and public parks (9.8%). Online incidents
account for 10.8% of the total incidents.
Below is a list of action items and resources to address the
current racism pandemic against AAPI.
1. Report Hate Crimes against Asian Americans
https://stopaapihate.org/ (12 languages)
https://www.standagainsthatred.org/report (5 languages)
Local and other reporting sites:
https://movementhub.org/get-help/
2. Assistance with legal and social services through the
Stop Hate hotline:
(Asian Americans Advancing Justice partnered with Lawyers’
Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and their Stop Hate project)
1-844-9-NO-HATE
3. Know your rights
(1) Legal rights to be treated fairly and without
discrimination: Federal and State laws and government sites to file a complaint
(organized by states)
https://secureservercdn.net/104.238.69.231/a1w.90d.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Stop_AAPI_Hate_Public_Accommodation_Law_Survey_200920.pdf
(2) Your rights if you are stopped by police, immigration
agents, or the FBI (Resource provided by American Civil Liberties Union).
https://www.aclu.org/issues/immigrants-rights/know-your-rights-discrimination-against-immigrants-and-muslims?redirect=feature/know-your-rights-immigration#immigration
4. Bystander Intervention training (against harassment)
https://advancingjustice-aajc.org/events
5. Self-defense and Personal safety training
https://www.impactbayarea.org/online_classes
6. Civic Engagement: Collective justice and shared
liberation
https://movementhub.org/make-change/
7. Culture Surge: an artists and culture makers’ coalition
for justice, care and connection.
https://www.culturesurge.com/about-us
8. Other action ideas: Host a panel discussion, lead a
community safety audit, create a survey for research, create Mud Stencils, hold
a Chalk Walk, create a Guerrilla-Style Video about Street Harassment, organize
a Protest or March, initiate legislative advocacy, host workshops, host a film
screening, host Fund raising
https://www.ihollaback.org/holla-how-tos/
9. Donate
STOP AAPI Hate:
https://stopaapihate.org/actnow/
Asian Americans Advancing Justice:
https://advancingjustice-aajc.org
AAPI Civic Engagement Fund: https://movementhub.org/donate/
Hollaback https://www.ihollaback.org/
American Civil Liberties Union https://www.aclu.org/
10. Share additional resources with others
https://www.thewechatproject.org/post/stopping-aapi-hate-resources
(English/Mandarin)
https://anti-asianviolenceresources.carrd.co
https://advancingjustice-aajc.org/covid19
The current list of resources above in Korean:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dWbBGqptvB0Q-UzKpd7S15mx3A2DG-QZ/edit#
The Asian and Asian American Faculty and Staff Council
(AAAFSC) condemns any form of racism, xenophobia, and discrimination including
hate crimes against AAPI. We continue our commitment to support Asian and Asian
American students, faculty, and staff on campus and their families and
communities.
In solidarity and support,
The AAAFSC board: Tamara Bhalla, Fan Yang, Soonhee Lee,
Aditya Desai, Shuyan Sun
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PNC 2021 Women L.E.A.D. Summit
Application deadline - March 15
At PNC we pride ourselves on Leadership & Education for Advancing Diversity within the financial services industry. We do this through our L.E.A.D. Summit Series.
Online activities include:
- Engaging panel discussion with Senior Women Leadership
- Interactive Peer Group Development Sessions
- Meet with PNC mentor for 1:1 discussions
You’ll be encouraged and inspired by what we have to offer at PNC. That includes an award-winning culture where you’ll be empowered to make a positive impact every day. When you work here, you’ll know that your contributions matter and that your potential is what you make of it.
Qualifications:
- 3.0 GPA or higher
- Business or Technology Major
IMPORTANT DATES
Application Deadline:
Monday, March 15
Virtual Networking Experience:
Thursday, March 18
3:30 - 5 p.m.
Summit:
Friday, March 19
10 a.m. - 2 p.m.
Submit your interest for this event
here.
Recently, four Asian-owned Maryland restaurants were broken into and burglarized at the start of the Lunar New Year. Urban Hot Pot, Kung Fu Tea and Bonchon in the Columbia Mall, and East Moon Asian Bistro in Ellicott City were all victims of Anti-Asian xenophobic hate crimes. These harmful events are not only happening in our backyard. Over the past year, we have been witnessing a dramatic uptick, by 1900%, in Anti-Asian xenophobic hate crimes against the broader Asian/American, Pacific Islander (AAPI) community. In particular, East Asian Americans and immigrants have been repeatedly blamed for the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic, leading to harm, exclusion, and emotional distress.
Initiatives for Identity, Inclusion & Belonging (i3b) actively stands with our AAPI community, and strongly denounces hate and violence in all its forms. We know that toxic misinformed scapegoating has dangerous impacts on marginalized communities, like the ones we see now and throughout our country’s history. It’s more than just a broken window or harmful anti-AAPI jokes, these events symbolize patterns and are symptomatic of systemic racism and xenophobia. We also know that daily experiences with racism and xenophobia can lead to racial trauma, excessive stress, hypervigilance, physical illness, and so much more.
To our AAPI community, we see you, you matter, and we are here to offer support in any way that we can. Your pain is not going unseen or unheard. Please reach out to us as you feel comfortable. Stay tuned for continued conversations from i3b in the upcoming weeks highlighting our AAPI community. You can also connect with the Asian American Faculty and Staff Council on myUMBC and find this post on Instagram (@umbc_i3b).
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REPOST: Women’s History Month 2021
Events & Reading for Learning + Engagement this March!
This is a repost on behalf of the Women's Center. Original post here.
Women’s History Month 2021
Events & Reading for Learning + Engagement this March!
Celebrate Women's History Month by engaging and learning with these great events happening throughout March! Also check out our Women’s Center blog archive for deeper learning and reflection.
In 1987 the US Congress designated March as National Women’s History Month (with help from Maryland's very own
Barbara Mikulski). This creates a special opportunity in our schools, our workplaces, and our communities to recognize and celebrate the often-overlooked achievements of American women. Each year there is a special theme designated by the
National Women's History Project. This year's theme is "
Valiant Women of the Vote: Refusing to be Silenced.
For a list of all the campus events, download the calendar below. Follow the Women's Center on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram for updates throughout the month.
Highlighted Events Hosted by the Women's Center and Campus Partners:
Women's History Month Trivia Night with the Women’s Center
Tuesday, March 2nd, 6-7pm
Create a team or play solo to show off your women's history know-how and win prizes!
2021 Korenman Lecture ‘In the Room’: Women of Color Doulas in a State of Emergency with Dr. Jennifer Nash
Thursday, March 4th, 4-5:30pm
"In the Room” explores the work of women of color doulas laboring in Chicago in an era where doulas are increasingly hailed—by the state and by activists—as precisely the innovation that can save black mothers’ lives. Dr. Nash explores the complicated tensions around professionalization and the medicalization of birth that underpins their practice, and considers the place of their work in the ongoing effort to eradicate black infant and maternal mortality.
I3B’s Workshop Wednesdays: Identity Conscious Supervision
Wednesday, March 10th, 10am-12pm
Using Identity-Conscious Supervision in Student Affairs as a guide for this conversation, Facilitators will discuss an original and transformative model to address day-to-day supervision challenges. Participants will engage with tools that consider self-work, identity exploration, relationship building, consciousness raising, trust development, and organizational change, ultimately helping them become more adept at supervising people from a range of backgrounds and experiences.
LLC's 2021 Inaugural Cedric Herring Symposium
Critical Conversations: An Intersectional Perspective to Ignite Social Change featuring Dr. Patricia Hill Collins
Wednesday, March 24th, 4-5:30pm
Dr. Patricia Hill Collins, Distinguished University Professor Emerita of Sociology at the University of Maryland, College Park, will be our guest speaker. Dr. Hill Collins is a social theorist whose research and scholarship have examined the intersection of race, gender, social class, sexuality and nationality. She has authored many publications, including Black Feminist Thought, and most recently, Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory.
Brave Space Forum: "I'm Not Okay (I Promise)": Toxic Positivity in a Pandemic (a Women's Center series)
Thursday, March 25th, 4-5pm
During this pandemic, positive stories and uplifting moments have often been hard to come by. Many of us are working through higher levels of stress, depression, anxiety, anger, and loneliness. In answer to these "negative emotional/mental states," some are pushing for us to think on the bright side and embrace positivity at all costs. Often, these well-meaning positivity pushers don't realize that they're enforcing something pervasively toxic. Enter: "toxic positivity," a social phenomenon wherein one compulsively pushes happiness and denies/minimizes/invalidates any negative or uncomfortable feeling. For this Brave Space Forum, we will deconstruct toxic positivity and why it's okay to not be okay!
University System of Maryland Women's Forum Scholarship and Awards Alert!
The Women's Forum commends and celebrates the achievements of students, faculty, and staff from across the system through award and scholarship programs. Students, faculty, and staff are encouraged
to apply.
In the spirit of using this celebration to learn and expand your understanding of women’s history, we also recommend you check out some of these archives from the Women’s Center blog treasure trove!
If you’re office or student org is hosting an event for Women’s History Month, email us at womencenter@umbc.edu with more information so we can update this post with your event details!
For a full list of all the Women’s Center’s events and programming to include our discussion-based groups, visit our events page.
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March 2021 Events with i3b
Check out our events this upcoming month!
Check out what's to come in March with i3b and our partnered events.
RSVP to any events HERE
Bagels & Banter: Freeing Britney & Tessica
Wednesday, March 3, 2021 | 3:30pm - 4:45 p.m. | Online via Webex
myUMBC Event Post: Link | Webex Session: Link
OCA Mocha Mondays with i3b: Allyship for Disability Justice
Monday, March 8, 2021 | 6:00pm - 7:30 p.m. | Online via Webex
myUMBC Event Post: Link | Webex Session: RSVP Required
Workshop Wednesdays: Identity Conscious Supervision
Wednesday, March 10, 2021 | 10:00am - 12:00 p.m. | Online via Webex
myUMBC Event Post: Link | Webex Session: Link
SistaCare: Soul Searching **
Self care group centering Black/Africana women
Wednesday, March 24, 2021 | 1:00pm - 2:00 p.m. | Online via Webex
myUMBC Event Post: Link | Webex Session: Link
Retriever Immigrants United: Unpacking Ourselves **
Social Justice at Home and Without Borders
Friday, March 26, 2021 | 12:00pm - 1:15 p.m. | Online via Webex
myUMBC Event Post: Link | Webex Session: Link
Small, Chill, Sensible Night
Friday, March 26, 2021 | 6:00 - 7:30 p.m. | Online via Webex
myUMBC Event Post: Link | Webex Session: Link
Bagels & Banter: Trans Media
Wednesday, March 31, 2021 | 3:30pm - 4:45 p.m. | Online via Webex
myUMBC Event Post: Link | Webex Session: Link
** These sessions are not recorded and will not be available in our Google Drive
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Black and Gold Rush with i3b
Help us continue to co-create a more socially just future
Over the next 36 hours the UMBC community is coming together for our annual
Giving Day. This is a community-wide effort where we contribute to initiatives, departments, programs and so much more to support the amazing things happening on our campus.
Initiatives for Identity, Inclusion & Belonging (i3b) is a new department on campus, but is composed of diversity, inclusion, equity, and social justice work that has been happening on UMBC’s campus for over 20 years. i3b helps students, staff, faculty & alumni develop the knowledge, awareness and skills necessary to cultivate an inclusive campus community, while creating spaces for students to get connected and find belonging. You may be most familiar with our three cultural centers – The Mosaic, Interfaith and Pride Centers, where students are able to find a home away from home as connected to these important identities. Along with our identity-based student focused programming, we have expanded our work to include the
Interact Dialogues Program,
OCA Mocha Mondays: Diversity Dialogues with i3b, and
Workshop Wednesdays series.
Your generous donations will allow us to continue growing and expanding the ways we work with students, faculty, staff, alumni, and community members. If you are passionate about social justice on our campus and beyond, and are committed to cultivating an inclusive campus environment for all, please consider donating to i3b. You can make your tax-deductible donation by clicking
HERE. Thank you for your gift of any amount!
Thank you for thinking of us and for your ongoing commitment to creating a more socially just future.
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Black Excellence Summit
Redefining Black Excellence...Register by February 21st!
The Black Excellence Summit hosted in collaboration with the Student Government Association (SGA), Initiatives for Identity, Inclusion & Belonging (i3b), Office of Equity and Inclusion (OEI), Africana Studies Department, National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE), Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, CURL P.W.R, the Women’s Center, and the Faithful Black Men Association (FBMA). This event is a virtual summit taking place on February 27th, 2021 through Webex from 1:00 pm - 6:00 pm.
Opening with a keynote from Michael Hunt, Director of the McNair Scholars Program. Students will also have the opportunity to pick two sessions to attend.
Sessions
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Racial Trauma/Racial Battle Fatigue and Radical Self Care - Dr. Whitney Hobson, Staff Psychologist/Multicultural Coordinator
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Understanding and Overcoming Imposter Syndrome - Ciara Christian, Graduate Assistant, Initiatives for Identity, Inclusion & Belonging
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Understanding and Responding to Microaggressions - David Shanks, Community Director for Hillside & Terrace Apartments; Amery Thompson, Community Director for Harbor Hall
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Challenging Racial Disparities in Health - Samantha A. Smith, Associate Director of Health Promotion, University Health Services
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Race in the Classroom and Academic Success - Carlos Williams, Academic Advocate, Academic Success Center
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The Practice of Diaspora: Exploring Pan-Ethnic Identity & Unity - Erin E. Waddles, Coordinator, Initiatives for Identity, Inclusion & Belonging
Students are required to RSVP as spots for the summit are limited.
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Introducing Our First i3b Value: Radical Love & Belonging
There is no justice or belonging without love.
As a new department on campus, we have been working diligently to ground ourselves in the values that guide our work. We'd like to introduce the first of three umbrella values: radical love & belonging. While love is not a word used often in professional spaces, we believe that radical love & belonging is the driving force behind equity, inclusion, and social justice both in our UMBC community and beyond. Creating spaces for radical love and belonging cannot happen without radical self-love AND being committed to self-work. Read through this post, engage in your own reflection, and join us in our journey to creating space for radical love and belonging on our campus and beyond.
This post was written by Dr. Jasmine Lee, Director of Inclusive Excellence and Initiatives for Identity, Inclusion & Belonging. She is really passionate about dialoguing across difference, fighting for racial justice, and laughing to tears!
So, what is radical love & belonging?
Radical love & belonging is about a pursuit of justice, inclusion, and equity in the name of love. It is action oriented and focused on creating spaces where people can live and belong as their whole selves. Radical love and belonging honors the inherent dignity in all of us and centers "ubuntu" beliefs - I am, because we are.
Pursuing an ethic of radical love is challenging when you feel dehumanized, invalidated, harassed, ignored, or targeted because of who you are. Radical love does not discount righteous anger, nor does it ask us to remain silent in the face of injustice. Instead it asks us to love justice more than we hate oppression. To love humanity, more than we hate discrimination. To pursue revolution and social justice in the name of love for humanity, over retaliation or hatred.
"There can be no love without justice...abuse and neglect negate love. Care and affirmation, the opposite of abuse and humiliation, are the foundation of love. It is a testimony to the failure of loving practice that abuse is happening in the first place." - bell hooks
Radical Love in Practice
- Interrogate... Pay close attention to your behaviors and your actions, in what ways are you causing harm?
- Righteous anger... Feel the feelings, while striving to hate the action, not the person.
- Call-in... Be brave and courageous, as you call-in family and friends around harmful behaviors that should be called-out.
- Speak truth to power... Name your truth and amplify the needs of others
- Act... consider your spheres of influence and use your privilege and power to act: vote, protest, lobby for policies, or engage in financial activism.
- Accountability and responsibility... Consequences, accountability and responsibility are all necessary aspects of radical love.
"Being a victim of oppression in the United States is not enough to make you revolutionary, just as dropping out of your mother's womb is not enough to make you human. People who are full of hate and anger against their oppressors or who only see Us versus Them can make a rebellion, but not a revolution. The oppressed internalize the values of the oppressor. Therefore, any group that achieves power, no matter how oppressed, is not going to act differently from their oppressors as long as they have not confronted the values that they have internalized and consciously adopted different values." - Grace Lee Boggs
Radical Love in Practice:
- Self-love... love yourself as you are - you are enough!
- Self-work... learn about your own story, privilege, and experience with oppression; actively work to unlearn and undo harmful narratives and exclusionary practices.
- Listen... Consider views and lived experiences that are different from your own.
- Imagine...imagine a world more just, more free, and more equitable; we cannot pursue what we don't believe is possible.
- Both/And... Create space to hold multiple truths at once; Strive to understand the "both/and" over the "either/or".
- Rest... Actively engage in self-care and community care; "Your existence is the resistance" - you/us being well matters.
"It's a radical love...That love drives the dream of a world where black lives matter and therefore all lives matter. Asian lives matter, Latino lives matter, Muslim lives matter, gay lives matter, poor lives matter, and old lives matter. It is a world in which we value the woman in a hijab, and the man in a kippa, and the atheist. Where we realize we are a human family and we cannot function without each other." - Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis.
In Reflection:
- How does radical love show up in your pursuit of social justice?
- How do you create space for "radical love in practice" to show up in your daily life?
More on Radical Love
Books
- All About Love x bell hooks | radical love as a concept for justice
- The body is not an apology x Sonya Renee Taylor | radical self love
- See No Stranger x Valerie Kaur | radical love for others
- Emergent Strategy x adrienne maree brown
Articles
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Introducing OCA Mocha Mondays: Diversity Dialogues with i3b
Using dialogue to co-create socially just futures
The Initiatives for Identity, Inclusion & Belonging (i3b) team is excited to announce a new initiative, OCA Mocha Mondays: Diversity Dialogues with i3b. At i3b, we believe in utilizing dialogue and dialogue skills, like generous listening and cross-cultural storytelling, to co-create a more socially just future. Further, we believe in the importance of community both across campus and with our wider community of neighbors.
Hosted by the campus-community coffee shop, OCA Mocha, OCA Mocha Mondays invites campus and community to join together to begin dialoguing about the social justice topics that impact our daily lives. Please join us and invite others in your community! Our first session is Monday, February 15th from 6-7:30pm. This session’s topic is “Unpacking Identity”, where we'll be engaging in dialogue about our individual identities as entry points to talking about and understanding social justice. See the attached flyer for more detailed information.
Ready to sign-up? You can register
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OCA Mocha Mondays: Diversity Dialogues with i3b will be held virtually, but once it's safe to return, we will gather together in person at OCA Mocha.
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