A Personal Response to #NotYourAsianSidekick

Last Sunday, activist and writer Suey Park started #NotYourAsianSidekick, a Twitter conversation originally meant to discuss problems within the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community, issues with white feminism, and the voices of those usually excluded from more mainstream AAPI discussions, such as people who are queer, disabled, mixed race and/or sex-positive. Very quickly, #NotYourAsianSidekick exploded, with nearly 34,000 tweets using the hashtag that first day.

There went my plans for vacuuming and organizing my house. I spent a good portion of Sunday afternoon glued to my computer screen, both following (or attempting to follow) and participating in the discussion.

Although following the rapid-fire conversation was remarkable, what excited me most were the tweets which dug deeper into Asian Americans' participation in liberation and social justice movements.

For my response, that includes links and images, see this week's post at Bitchmedia:
http://bitchmagazine.org/post/not-you...