Assassinated for her activism during the Guatemalan Civil War, Mack Chang’s research drew attention to the government’s abuses against Indigenous communities

there is no self just rapture

Twenty-one writers interpret the genre

Each wave, larger than the one before.

Migrant and Asian sex workers have long advocated for rights, not rescue, creating cross-racial and transnational networks of care along the way.

It is so difficult to live as exposition. This is the strain Su acknowledges, the weight of one’s own footnote.

Food roots us in a place. It follows that ingredients—and the spaces in which we find them—do the same.

The first reading I ever gave was at Basement Workshop

Remembering the Workshop’s basement office in the late nineties

On AAWW as a space of solace and connection

On Lisa Hsiao Chen’s Activities of Daily Living and the art that makes us see the world differently

I’m learning, each day, what it may mean to live.

I have never met anyone who looked like me.

Pulled up in the net of memory

Bangladesh, 1971—an excerpt from In Sensorium

The poet on her ghosts and inspirations.

In which we awaken and make new meaning from our archive

On the past and present of finding and sharing Asian diasporic literature

Remembering the AAWW offices in the East Village and Koreatown

AAWW’s current executive director reflects on virtual space and community