News and Events
Pasifika Power & Control Wheel Translation Project, 2021
This project aimed to translate and develop educational resources and tools on GBV in indigenous Pasifika languages. The project aims to empower individuals, families, community-based and system responders, allied professionals, and the community-at-large with culturally responsive resources to address and prevent GBV in Pasifika communities. Resources include project report and glossaries and tools for Samoan, Chuukese, and Native Hawaiian communities.
Decolonizing Our Body As Land — Ritual of Sickness: ChilseongSaenamgut (With Dohee Lee)
May 25, 2022
10am HST / 12pm PST / 2pm CST / 3pm EST (1.5hr)
The creative process of ritual through our own body is the key word. Our embodied and mindful practice will bring the source and resources to explore and examine individual roots and cultural elements that we were longing for to reconnect. We reclaim our cultural and ancestral dignity and resilience from the colonial system of oppression. We reclaim our matriarchal beliefs into collective creative healing and spiritual activism once our ancestors did for the ceremonies and rituals.
Join our facilitated sharing session for AANHPI Advocates! (with Dr. Ada Cheng)
10am HST / 12pm PST / 2pm CST / 3pm EST (1.5hr)
This is a facilitated sharing session, where staff and members will share their experiences and stories based on prompts. Facilitated by Dr. Ada Cheng, this session is designed based on the understanding that staff members have experienced vicarious trauma and exhaustion due to the pandemic and the current political climate of our time. The format of the intimate sharing is intended to create space for intimacy, vulnerability, connection, and hopefully care for the participants.
For AANHPI Advocates — StoryCircles with beckie masaki
May 10 & May 11, 2022
9am HST / 11am PST / 1pm CST / 2pm EST (1.5hr)
In the midst of exhaustion, pain, grief, anger, and systemic, compounded violence from the parallel pandemics of COVID-19 and AAPI Hate, it is time to create space + time, gather strength, and renew energy, for leaders and advocates, by and for AANHPI organizations and communities. Whether it is your first time with Story Circles, or you have been in several Story Circle sessions, each one is different because of what calls us together in the present moments.
Bridges: A Connect Call for Asians, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders Addressing Gender-Based Violence
Next call: May 12, 2022 (9am HST / 12pm PST / 3pm CST / 3pm EST) (1.5hr)
These bi-monthly community connect calls 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.
Remembrance and Solidarity: API-GBV’s Statement on the One-Year Anniversary of the Atlanta Spa Shootings
3/16/2022
On March 16, 2021 eight women and men, among them six Asian massage workers, were killed at spas in the Atlanta area. Though today marks one year since their loss reverberated through AAPI communities and beyond, the loss continues for their families and the community. Since then, more names have been added to the list of lives lost to anti-AAPI hate, as recently as this month in New York City.
Past Events
Remembrance and Solidarity: API-GBV’s Statement on the One-Year Anniversary of the Atlanta Spa Shootings
3/16/2022
On March 16, 2021 eight women and men, among them six Asian massage workers, were killed at spas in the Atlanta area. Though today marks one year since their loss reverberated through AAPI communities and beyond, the loss continues for their families and the community. Since then, more names have been added to the list of lives lost to anti-AAPI hate, as recently as this month in New York City.
Join our team! 4 open positions
API-GBV is growing and expanding! We are excited to open up the following positions. Applications are due March 25, 2022.
Advisory Revised Feb 2022: How Will ‘Public Charge’ Proposed Policy Changes Impact Immigrant Survivors of Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault?
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is proposing a new rule that put longstanding policy about the meaning and application of the “public charge” provisions of immigration law into regulation form. This advisory describes provisions under this new proposed rule and how it will impact immigrant survivors of violence, particularly in light of the pandemic.
The Impact of New Proposed Public Charge Rules on Immigrant Survivors of Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault, and Human Trafficking, 2022
9am HST / 11am PST / 1pm CST / 2pm EST (1hr)
The Department of Homeland Security has posted a draft public charge proposed rule to update regulations that guide officials in determining when people seeking entry to or permanent status in the US can be denied, because they are determined to be likely to become a “public charge.” Come join us for a webinar to get an overview of the proposal, to learn about how the proposal impacts immigrant survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking, and how the experiences of survivors can impact the final rule.
The Village: A Podcast with API-GBV
New! Episode 1 – Intersections to Interactions: Building Culturally-Grounded Responses for Pacific Islander Communities
The Village Podcast features a series of virtual conversations with experts in the public health, anti-gender violence, community response, community development, and adjacent fields aimed at.
Happy Year of the Tiger! Your Lunar New Year support will support our critical programs
Dear Friends,
We hope this email finds you safe and healthy. We also hope you have had an opportunity to joyously welcome in the new Lunar Year!
API-GBV looks forward to settling into a more hopeful YEAR OF THE TIGER, after we have witnessed and felt the collective pain in our Asian American Pacific Islander communities caused by the health and economic upheavals of COVID, and sadly, the resulting anti-Asian racism tied to the pandemic. Despite these seismic hurdles, we know we will thrive in 2022 when we all work together.