Today, Lihn Nguyen and I share how the Asian American and Pacific Islander Community and Black communities are working together to right racism and build political power. We write:
Black and Asian women know what it means to be 'othered.' We have each had harmful stereotypes cast upon us that date back centuries and continue to affect our lives today. From the fetishization of Asian women to the trope of the angry Black woman, these stereotypes have real life consequences.
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As women take on more leadership roles, break down barriers across sectors and run for office at unprecedented rates, their power increases but so does the threat against them. Violence and harassment of women - both on social media and in real life - is raging and it must be stopped.
In 2020, the decades of work by Stacey Abrams and other Black women leaders blossomed into a real victory for Democrats, with community-led organizing and voter registration campaigns leading to transformative victories at the local and state levels, Congress and all the way up to the White House. There are many lessons to be learned about how we can replicate their success across the country, particularly in the South, but the most critical one is that we should no longer ignore the potential of seemingly “deep red” states.
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