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2024 Asian American Literature Festival Events
2024 Asian American Literature Festival Website
Mutual Aid Fund for Impacted Kundiman Staff
An Open Letter from Concerned Kundiman Fellows & Community Members
Register: Unghosted! A Virtual Reading Room Celebrating Asian Diasporic Trans, Nonbinary & Gender-Expansive Writers
Register: Unghosted! A Virtual Reading Room Celebrating Asian Diasporic Trans, Nonbinary & Gender-Expansive Writers
Open Letter to the Smithsonian from Festival Partners
Ways to Support Our Demands
Letter to Smithsonian AWHI about the 2023 AALF
Letter to AARP about the 2023 AALF
Job Posting: Director, Asian Pacific American Center
Add your name to the Open Letter

Press Coverage

NPR on Ghosted World: An Uncancelled Asian American LitFest (8/6/23)
DCist on the resurrected AALF despite Smithsonian's cancellation (7/28/23)
The Washington Post on the "potentially sensitive" content of the cancelled festival (7/22/23)
The Art Newspaper on public outrage following LitFest cancellation (7/19/23)
Hyperallergic on outcry after Asian American LitFest cancellation (7/18/23)
WTOP on Asian American LitFest's cancellation (7/18/23)
The Spinoff on community condemnation of LitFest cancellation (7/18/23)
The Washington Post on abrupt cancellation of Asian American LitFest (7/14/23)

Statements in Solidarity

Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS) Statement on AALF Cancellation
Open Letter from Asian American Studies Scholars
Open Letter from Editors of the Massachusetts Review
Authors Guild Statement on AALF Cancellation

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