ASA 002 A04 Yun Han Week10

In the reading “Academics Awaken: Power, Resistance, and Being Woke,” the authors Kieu Linh Caroline Valverde and Wei Ming Dariotis encourage people to speak up. In this week’s reading “Epilogue. Upward and Onward: Asian American Women’s Legal Resistance,” the author Robyn Magalit Rodriguez introduces Sunera Thobani who is a scholar and activist in the University of British Columbia and studies how the Canadian criminal justice system treats the survivors of gender-based violence and to discuss strategies for change. Some of Tonbani’s  work becomes part of the agenda to “Fight the Tower.”

For the whole quarter, I keep reading the book "Fight the Tower." It uses different stories to demonstrate how people overcome race and gender discrimination and stereotypes. After reading this book, I find myself understand the importance of showing your own voice when facing unequal treatments.

Question: When we do something to protect our equal rights, how can we ensure our

safety?

Reference:

Valverde, K.-L. C.,& Dariotis, W. M. (2020). Fight the Tower: Asian American women scholars resistance and renewal in the academy, New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.