Category: Featured

Sandra Pham, winner of the Young Impact Awards Diversity 2023

For our monthly column “Asian Praisings,” we put an initiative or a person with East and/or Southeast Asian roots in the spotlight. This time, that will be Sandra Pham, winner of the Young Impact Awards Diversity 2023 and artist.

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Asians Speaking Up: The Story of Stefan

Growing up between different cultures and experiencing discrimination and racism have an impact on our mental health. Asian Raisins believes that this deserves more attention. For the Storytelling project 'Asians Speaking Up: Mental Health,' we asked people from East and Southeast Asian communities about their experiences

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The Racist Mural on Hemonylaan in Amsterdam; The Difficulty of Disrupting East and Southeast Asian Clichés in Street Art

If you cross the bustling street of Amsterdam's Albert Cuypmarkt, you’ll immediately find yourself on the quiet Hemonylaan. The street is brightened by many colourful stencil art murals; with the use of templates, existing images have been painted on the buildings. One of the walls features

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Asians Speaking Up: The story of Mei Woen

Growing up between different cultures and experiencing discrimination and racism have an impact on our mental health. Asian Raisins believes that this deserves more attention. For the Storytelling project 'Asians Speaking Up: Mental Health,' we asked people from East and Southeast Asian communities about their experiences

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Anti-Asian Racism in Election Manifesto!

The 2023 Dutch parliamentary elections are just around the corner. Therefore, it's essential to know where political parties stand when it comes to addressing anti-Asian racism. Which political parties have explicitly included anti-Asian racism in their election manifesto? Asian Raisins’ Action Team has investigated this for

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5 burning questions for Maud about activism, anti-Asian racism and her nomination for a Young Impact Award

“Racism against East and Southeast Asian people has been normalized in Dutch society under the guise of ‘funny’ or ‘pleasant’,” says Maud, Action program manager at Asian Raisins. During the corona pandemic, she came across Asian Raisins and immediately became a member. Since then, she has

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Asians Speaking Up: Michelle’s Story

Growing up among different cultures and experiencing discrimination and racism has an impact on our mental health. Asian Raisins believes that more attention should be paid to this issue. For the Storytelling project 'Asians Speaking Up: Mental Health,' we asked people from East and South-East Asian

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Maud, from our Asian Raisins campaign “Stop Hanky Panky Shanghai,” has been nominated for the Young Impact Awards.

Maud, Action Program Manager at Asian Raisins, has been nominated for the Young Impact Awards due to her contributions to our anti-racism campaign, "Stop Hanky Panky Shanghai." Young Impact is an organization that supports and provides a platform for young changemakers, at which annually they present

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Queer East & Southeast Asian: Short Films + Speeddating Event (27 July)

Finally it is time for an intentional space for queer East and Southeast Asians! We are excited for our first event in collaboration with Queer Amsterdam (22nd-28th of July) and Lab111. The drag and make-up artist Aaron DeLucoire will be the host of the evening, so

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Reclaiming East and Southeast Asian (in)visibility during the Week Against Racism 2023

In the week of 13 March, 2023, Pakhuis de Zwijger and Comité 21 maart organised the 5th edition of the Week Against Racism. This year, the festival was an extra special occasion for the Asian Raisins Foundation: we took a seat at the discussion table and

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