PRESERVING OVERLOOKED AAPI EXPERIENCES
The Not Fade Away: Preserving Overlooked AAPI Experiences Project curates a collection of coast-to-coast community-sourced narratives of Asian American and immigrant experiences. Specifically, we ensure potentially forgotten Asian American social movements, stories, and experiences are adequately preserved and accessible through oral history documentation.
Not Fade Away Featured in CUNY Forum (Vol 12:1)
The 2025-26 issue of CUNY Forum (Vol 12:1), an annual academic publication of the Asian American/Asian Research Institute at the City University of New York, features a highlight of the Not Fade Away: Preserving Overlooked AAPI Experiences project with our 2022 interview with S. Floyd Mori.
CUNY Forum is a major Asian American academic journal that accepts “literary and cultural contributions by scholars, artists, and activists from diverse backgrounds, including Guyanese, Chinese, Japanese, Taiwanese, Burmese, Malaysian, Bangladeshi, Filipino, Korean, Caribbean, Vietnamese, Khmer, and other East, South, and Southeast Asian and Pacific communities.”
We are proud that our interview with S. Floyd Mori is featured in CUNY Forum’s “Asian Pacific American Studies” section. To read the interview, go here.
Remembering Groundbreakers We Have Lost
We have begun uploading memorials of many unsung activists who left their mark in Asian American community affairs. Please find tributes of Daystar Chou, Jeffry Tsuji, Steve Wong, Wayne Lum, and Fay Chiang. Many of the tributes are written by Steve Yip, who promises more tributes to these social justice pacesetters we have lost to time, and assrances they are presented respectfully.
Looking Forward: Summer 2026
Not Fade Away continue to be a work-in-progress. And we look forward to some improvements to our website with more content uploads pending, as we have quite a bit in the garage. And we have some upcoming and potential oral history interviews on the docket, since our soft launch in September 2025, we continue to seek volunteers for research, transcription, and editing.
By the end of summer, we hope to have a social media presence and will be conducting fundraising. While all of our oral history interviews have been conducted in English, we need volunteers with Cantonese-language fluency to help polish several of our interviews by interpreting Chinese phrases and names that appear in the course of an interview.
Your ideas and suggestions for this project are welcome. Write at: AAPIHistory@email.com Mahalo!
Take a look at our recent works!
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“Like a Rolling Stone: the Life and Times of Ben Fong-Torres", a film by Suzanne Joe Kai (2021)” | This documentary came off Netflix rotation in June 2025. Check JustWatch to track if it becomes available on another platform. | Originally published on MainlyPiano.com, December 2022.
Bryant Fong, a leader of the Asian American Political Alliance (AAPA), speaks: "How Did the Third World Liberation Front Strike at UC Berkeley Start?"
“The Chinatown Tour: Making Resistance Culture in These Times,” an interview with MC TingBuDong a/k/a Jamel Mims by Laila Rahman | Originally published in MainlyPiano.com, March 2025.
In this interview conducted by Gabrielle Hrung, Shannon Yip elaborated further on her experiences with the Chinese Folk Dance Association.