Some things that make me feel unsafe in public

- being asked if I’m Jewish because of the way my hair looks - being interrogated about my personal political beliefs because I am identifiably Jewish - being expected to denounce and apologize for Israel every time I want to be Jewish in public - being told “I don’t hate Jews, but I’m pro-Palestine” in response to my Jewishness - being told I’m going to hell for being Jewish - non-Jews dictating to me what does and does not constitute antisemitism - people who are not me and who don’t look like me engaging in endless debate about what “race” I belong to - white supremacists telling me that I “control the world” and “should go back to Germany” while folks on the left tell me I benefit from white supremacy - having to make a choice between queerness and Judaism

Noticeably absent from this list: - seeing others’ religious symbols on display in public

[ID: Tweet from monicayk97 reads, "honestly i'm just fucking done and tired with it all. i'm angry that i know the white supremacist shooter's name before the names of the asian women. i'm angry that it's working class asians that are targeted and people wanna erase us all as wealthy. i'm just fucking angry" end ID]

some places to donate (compiled by monica):

advancing justice (atlanta, GA local org)

stopaapihate (aapi women-led)

'i'm ready' movement (aapi women-led)

asian prisoner support committee

apienc (for queer and trans asian people)

Today, January 27, 2017, marks 72 years since the Soviet army liberated the Auschwitz concentration camp in Nazi occupied Poland. Today we remember the worst of humanity: genocide. Today we remember all the victims and survivors of the Holocaust. We remember the roughly 11 million people (1.1 at the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp) who were slaughtered simply for who they were and those who were imprisoned, and sometimes killed, for what they believed.

The Nazi regime murdered an estimated 6 million Jewish people, 2 million Romani people, 250,000 mentally and physically disabled non-Jewish/non-Romani people, and 9,000 non-Jewish/non-Romani gay men all in the furtherance of white supremacy and “racial purity.”

Today we remember them all and continue to fight against fascism, totalitarianism, and white supremacy so that this never again happens.

Today, January 27, 2018, marks 73 years. Never again.

Today, January 27, 2020, marks 75 years. Never again.

Today, January 27, 2020, marks 76 years. Never again.