Thanks to everyone who have submitted to the AAPI Community COVID Archival Project! Since 2021, we have gathered over 120 submissions featuring voices from an array of communities. With our large collection, we’ve made the decision to close submissions.
Our work does not end here. We received funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities to gather voices from Filipino and Southeast Asian elderlies in the San Francisco Bay Area. This next line of work will continue as the CARE Project (Community Archival Resilience and Engagement). We will continue our work in writing, archiving, and preserving marginalized voices.
Writing.
We lived through a pandemic of historic proportions. What will future generations know of how this pandemic had impacted the Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) community? Lacking a voice, history will be written for us. This project was created to provide a platform for us to deposit our lived COVID experience - big and small.
Archiving.
We built a platform so we can document and preserve our COVID stories in different media and store them for the future. This collection of memories will be archived at the Ethnic Studies Library at the University of California, Berkeley.
Preserving.
We created a digital archive to capture our stories will provide a record of our different experiences for future generations of researchers. For anthropologists, sociologists, historians, or public health clinicians who wish to study the AAPI response to COVID-19, they will be able to access this invaluable collection of stories.