2020 is the year of elections, and we've had a long journey of coming to learn anything about politics. As Asian American womxn, we may have not grown up with the familial environment in which politics are a common dinner topic, or maybe we struggled to "fit into" identity-based organizations at school where our peers were so impassioned to advocate for issues we knew little to nothing about. We wanted to share with you all our convoluted path to not only learning more about politics but also becoming more politically aware and active, and we hope that it can be empowering to hear 3 Asian American womxn have an open, candid conversation about what terrified them about politics before, what intrigued them, and what motivates us to raise our voices now.
MORE ABOUT VANUYEN:
Vanuyen is proud to be a second generation Vietnamese American. She's currently learning a ton about policy and narrative change as Program & Operations Manager at the Economic Security Project and has previously been a legislative intern at Congresswoman Barbara Lee's office, health policy intern at Southeast Asia Resource Action Center, and advocacy intern at Asian Americans for Community Involvement. At Stanford, she was active in Stanford Vietnamese Student Association, Sigma Psi Zeta, Okada House, and the Stanford Asian American Activities Center.
SEED:
https://www.stocktondemonstration.org/
https://abcnews.go.com/US/people-500-month-california-city-experiments-guaranteed-income/story?id=66158831
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/dec/10/town-gives-families-500-dollars-month-results
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/universal-basic-income-heres-how-residents-of-stockton-california-are-spending-500-a-month/
Magnolia Mother's Trust:
http://springboardto.org/index.php/blog/story/introducing-the-magnolia-mothers-trust
https://www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/all-told/1000-a-month-no-strings-attached/
ESP & Anti-Monopoly Fund:
https://www.economicsecurityproject.org/
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/09/opinion/sunday/chris-hughes-facebook-zuckerberg.html
https://www.thenation.com/content/more-than-enough/
