A Website to Document Unique AAPI Experiences During the COVID-19 pandemic
AAPI COVID Archive Team
Jan 25, 2021
We are living in history which hasn't occurred for more than 100 years. We are also living in a time where data is fast and research quickly disseminated. However, there is a lack of personal collective for what is happening to us as a people. Lacking a voice, history is written for us. Words are put into our mouths, newspapers write about the AAPI as a monolith. We need to build a platform that will give us a voice to talk about what we face during this pandemic and store it for the future.
As shown from the CDC statistics our population suffer disparately from COVID and all-cause mortalities yet these statistics lack the human voice behind them. Research can only go so far with demographic data, at best we know a data point as Asian (ethnicity) Male (gender) 60 year old (age). We don’t know the culture, society, and human behind the statistics.
The difference today is that everyone can write their own stories and share it. It’s no longer limited to the privileged few historians and academicians. As experts in our own lives and experiences, our reflections are invaluable collective memories for future generations.
Therefore, we set out this project to:
To capture the collective individual humanity of Asian American and Pacific Islanders in this pandemic
Tell our own stories
Transform all stories into collective memory for future generations