Hate incidents against AANHPI people have continued to rise since 2020, according to data from nonprofit Stop AAPI Hate.
Soar Over Hate: Safety and mental health"It was a week after the Atlanta spa shootings, and I just got really overwhelmed by everything that was going on, and I couldn't stop crying and just felt very alone, and I realized that a lot of people 一 Asian-American friends 一 were feeling the same way and feeling very scared for their safety," said Michelle Tran, a medical student who launched Soar Over Hate in 2021, along with Kenji Jones and Tiffany Yeun.
“I think there is such a big stigma in so many Asian communities that seeking help for mental therapy or mental illness is considered a weakness, and it's absolutely not a weakness,” Jones told GMA.People gather to protest at the"Rally Against Hate" in Chinatown o in New York, March 21, 2021. Carol Lin, Soar Over Hate's public relations and partnerships lead, joined the staff after attending one of the group's annual Care Fair that offers food, self-defense courses, puppy therapy, and origami among other events. Lin said she's grateful that therapy is being made available for those that need it most.
"[There is] the underlying racism that's driving all of these things to happen in the first place; being seen as potential foreigners and scapegoated for the COVID-19 virus or seen as vulnerable enough to attack the people who don't speak back because they're not Americans and they're not going to cause trouble and report that crime," Tran said.
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