To Be Seen and Valued: Reflections on AAPI Heritage Month

It has been over 40 years since President Jimmy Carter signed the first commemoration of Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage month into existence, though many Americans have only recently become aware of it. This is not an indictment on my fellow Americans, but rather part of a pattern of erasure and silencing of AAPI folks that is deeply familiar to AAPI community members like me.