News and Events
Bridges: A Connect Call for Asians, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders Addressing Gender-Based Violence
Sign up now for the October call!
(9am HST / 2pm CST / 3pm EST)
We are very excited to be launching a bi-monthly call for our community, starting this Domestic Violence Awareness Month.
These meetings are intended to be a space for AANHPI advocates, community members, and allies to connect, dialogue, share successes, problem solve, and network. API-GBV staff will be available to moderate and encourage discussion, but this is a space for YOU, as the experts of this work, to share your experiences and to learn from allies across the country.
Supporting the Participation of AANHPI Survivors of Gender-Based Violence to Vote
Survivors of gender-based violence in AANHPI communities often face numerous barriers to meaningfully participating in elections, including safety and privacy concerns, laws that disenfranchise many voters, language barriers, and for survivors who are homeless or living in a shelter, lack of a home address. This advisory will explain the importance of voter participation among survivors in AANHPI communities and ways to support voter safety among survivors.
We are seeking our Executive Director!
Start date: Jan/Feb 2021
The Asian Pacific Institute on Gender-Based Violence (“the Institute”/API-GBV) is entering an exciting new stage of our organizational history. We are seeking a talented leader who will guide us through a period of strategic assessment and growth while also ensuring organizational stability and staff well-being.
Building on our current relationships and accomplishments, API-GBV seeks to expand our reach, strengthen our partnerships, and launch new strategies to shift power in a way that enables underrepresented voices to more forcefully impact their communities. Central to our work is the recognition of the intersection of race, income, immigration status, and gender.
Download job description for more information, required qualifications, and application instructions
Gender-Based Violence in Asian, Middle Eastern, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander LGBTQ Communities: Roundtable Report
This report summarizes and synthesizes discussion from a roundtable on GBV in Asian, Middle Eastern, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander LGBTQ communities, convened by API-GBV in September 2019. Attendees discussed how gender manifests as a site of oppression for API LGBTQ individuals, and strategies to address violence in API LGBTQ communities.
From a Spiral of Violence to a Whirlwind of Healing: Strengthening Advocacy for API LGBTQ Survivors
Domestic violence and intimate partner abuse have often been understood in terms of men’s violence against women. However, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer-identified individuals consistently experience intimate partner violence at similar rates as heterosexual women. With 21-55% of Asian women reporting experiences of intimate physical and/or sexual violence during their lifetime, the implications for LGBTQ API individuals are extensive. Yet while the number of anti-violence programs serving Asian and Pacific Islander communities has grown considerably over the last decades, there is little research and still very few culturally-specific resources for LGBTQ survivors of gender-based violence.
This webinar will offer a framework for understanding Asian and Pacific Islander LGBTQ experiences of gender-based violence, and the multiple barriers that these survivors face when seeking support. Integrating highlights from the Institute’s September 2019 Roundtable on API LGBTQ communities, this presentation will provide ideas and recommendations for organizations to engage and serve API LGBTQ survivors more effectively.
Organizing in Asia: A Presentation by Grace Poore, OutRight Action International
This report summarizes a presentation by Grace Poore, Regional Program Coordinator for Asia and the Pacific Islands at Outright Action International. The presentation and following Q&A set the context of struggles and activism for LGBT rights in Asian countries, and includes critical analysis, research, discussions among activists, backlash and its impacts, societal contexts, and movement strategies infusing the work for LGBT rights and safety in Asia.
Past Events
Faithful Allies: Working with Christian Leaders
This tipsheet 1-pager, developed by Korean American Family Services (KFAM) describes some suggested practices for working with faith leaders on DV/SV response and prevention.
API-GBV Welcomes Our New Director of Programs!
API-GBV is pleased to announce that we have hired our new Director of Programs, Sarah Khan. Ms. Khan has worked with the institute for the past seven years, most recently as the Senior Project Specialist for OVW’s Culturally Specific Service Project. She also co-led the design and implementation of a national financial capability pilot program for immigrant South Asian survivors of violence. In her work, she also draws on her 18 years in the field of gender-based violence and community development – developing programs and leadership while supporting the expertise and voices of those she works with. She brings a breadth of experience providing both direct services as well as training and technical support to the field, while working with multi-cultural communities of color.
Faithful Allies: Working with Christian Leaders
Almost 70-80% of Korean immigrants in the U.S. reports that they attend church regularly. Korean American Family Services (KFAM) has encountered so many survivors whose faith play a very important role for their journey to healing. Because of this reason, KFAM has been working with the Korean faith community for about 8 years in order to make our community more welcoming to survivors and to train faith leaders to become supportive first responders. Through this webinar, KFAM will share our work with faith leaders, our strategy and the impact of our work.
Trauma-Informed Care for AAPI Survivors: 3-Part Webinar Series
Presented in collaboration with four AAPI community organizations and shelters, this webinar series explores the impacts of trauma on AAPI survivors and communities. Presenters share insight about working with survivors in shelter and through immigration and legal cases; and discuss best practices for providing culturally-specific, trauma-informed services, particularly within the context of COVID-19.
Monthly Updates: Growth and Transition
As you may know, Institute is going through an exciting period of transition. We’ve bid a bittersweet goodbye to our founding Executive Director, and are hiring for exciting new positions. We are going through org restructuring and visioning for the future. Over the last few months, and continuing through the next, we have also been undertaking steps to strategically evaluate what we do to make sure our work has the most meaning and impact in preventing violence in our communities and improving safety for survivors. Throughout it all, we are learning to adapt our outreach, services, and training to accessible and safe online spaces. If you are invested in our work and mission, we hope you will help us out by:
Monthly Updates: Moments that Inspire
Even in these difficult times, we are lucky to have been witness to so many “silver lining” moments. This month, we applauded the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold sexual orientation and gender identity as rights to be protected in the workplace. We were inspired by a generation of Asian American children who wrote heartfelt messages to their immigrant parents about why Black lives matter. We saw Pride reclaimed for the Black queer and trans leaders who built it. We were awed by a cross-sector collaboration to deliver hundreds of thousands of masks and anti-bacterial wipes to shelters. We listened to a survivor-led initiative to amplify the voices of sexual assault survivors in the fight to uproot systemic racism and inequity.
Yes, these glimpses of hope were punctuated by moments that reminded us that we are still far from a world where people of all races, identities, and backgrounds are safe. And yes, there is still a lot of work to be done. But we still believe that we will get there one day.
We hope that in this crazy time, wherever your activism draws you, you are staying well and taking care of yourself.