Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islanders (AANHPI) Heritage Month - National Women's Law Center

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May 1, 2025

Issues: Breaking Stereotypes, Racial Justice

May is Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islanders (AANHPI) Heritage Month. All month, we’ll celebrate the history, culture, and achievements of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders.

AANHPI Heritage Month Graphic

Wash your hands...of racism too graphic

Respect, Identity, and Connection: On the Importance of Names This AANHPI Heritage Month

A Love Letter to Bend It Like Beckham

Qipaos, Chum Chums, Taiwanese Pearl Guava, Dumplings, Mendhi, and Doing the Most: Celebrating Our Favorite Cultural Treasures This AANHPI Heritage Month

When You Have Nothing to Give, You Pass Down Your Recipes

Building Community Through Food: Recipes From Our Family Kitchens

AANHPI People Can Be Funny Too

Tributes to the AANHPI Women We Love

Celebrating AANHPI Heritage Month

I should be celebrating AANHPI heritage month. Instead, I’m grieving.

To Achieve Equal Pay for AANHPI Women, We Need to Embrace Their Full Realities

“Everything Everywhere All at Once” Is Everything That I Want to See in a Movie

#Stopping Asian Hate? Why Not White Supremacy?

AANHPI Heritage Month: Beyond Complicity: Asian-American Organizing, Solidarity, and Power

I Honor My Anger #APAHM

“Resting Bitch Voice”: Honoring My Anger as an Asian American Woman and Rejecting the Fiction of Respectability

#AAPIEqual Pay Day Kicks Off a Year of Looking at the Harms of the Gender Wage Gap

#whitewashedOUT is About AAPI Invisibility in Every Sense

AANHPI Heritage Month Book Club

AANHPI Heritage Month Cookbook: Chinese Turnip/Radish Cake (Lo Bak Go/蘿蔔糕)

AANHPI Heritage Month Cookbook: Dumplings

Serena and her family

AANHPI Heritage Month: Learning to Be Proud of My Identity

Crazy Rich Asians Is Just the Beginning

Five Things You Should Know About Equal Pay Day for Asian American Women

Building Our Hope: AAPI Women Artists/Activists

But Really, Stop Asking Me Where I’m From

Amy Matsui's mom

Celebrate #AANHPI Heritage Month: #ProtectFamilies

Chinese Food for Thought

Dear Jeff Sessions, I Am #NotYourModelMinority

Making the Invisible VISIBLE for Asian Pacific American Heritage Month

Give Mulan the Feminist Chinese Story She Deserves

Honoring Nabra and Addressing Trauma

I honor me

I Honor My Eyes, Nose, and Skin Color

I Honor My #APAHM

I Honor My Han and I Honor My Anxiety: How Embracing My Emotions Is an Expression of Radical Feminism

It’s Not Really AAPI Equal Pay Day. Here’s Why.

Minding the Gap on Asian Women’s Equal Pay Day

Not a Monolith, Not Apathetic, Not Model: Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month (APAHM)

A picture of Josh and his family underneath cherry blossom trees.

Preserving AANHPI Pride: Everyday Acts of Resistance

Why Asian American and Pacific Islander Communities Should March for Black Women

You Don’t Belong Here: A Conversation About the Impact of Asian Representation

What Do We Want: AANHPI Frontline Workers Are Worth Fighting For

What the “Model Minority” Stereotype Misses: AAPI Women on the Margins

AANHPI Heritage Month Cookbook: Chaudhry Chai

AANHPI Heritage Month Cookbook: Sunu’s Parents’ Banana Bread Recipe

AANHPI Heritage Month Cookbook: Taiwanese Popcorn Chicken (Yan su ji/鹽酥雞)

AANHPI Heritage Month Cookbook: Teriyaki Sauce/Marinade