AVE updates: 2025 Q3
We are taking a moment to look back on the past few months, as we step into November. 🍂
From new campaign projects to collaboration, and even our very first grant, this season has been full of movement and growth. Here’s a glimpse into what we’ve been working on at AVE, and thank you to everyone who’s continued walking this journey with us. 💛
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🐣 At the Cultural Diversity, Migration and Education (CDME) Conference
Hyunjung from AVE presenting at the CDME conference 2025, Photo Courtesy of Hansun
On August 19, we joined the 5th Cultural Diversity, Migration and Education (CDME) Conference to present our work on racism in Education. Drawing from the podcast “Bin ich süßsauer?, ‘Am I sweetsour’”, we discuss how youth with Asian migrant backgrounds in Germany face racialized experiences in school. We claim that dominant narratives in schools reproduce racism rather than dismantle it. AVE emphasized that anti-racist education must move beyond surface-level ‘intercultural diversity’ rhetoric and instead center on civil society voices that build counter-narratives from lived experience.
💫Launching the Stop Asian Hate Campaign Team
A poster made by @2020notok, Image courtesy of Ju Hyun Leh Hwang
This late summer, we kicked off a new working group, Stop Asian Hate campaign team! We’re currently gathering first insights through a short questionnaire to understand how Asian diaspora communities in Europe experience racism in daily life. The campaign will lead to public awareness projects, policy briefs, and storytelling collaboration across Europe.
📎 If you haven’t joined the survey yet, the questionnaire is still available on our site.
🔥First-Ever Funding from filia’s RISE program
A project logo for the program “Resources for Intersectional Solidarity and Empowerment” © filia.die frauenstiftung
We’re thrilled to share some good news: for the first time, AVE has received funding! Through the RISE (Resources for intersectional Solidarity & Empowerment) Fund by filia die frauenstiftung, we secured €6,000 per year for two years. The grant aims to support Germany-based FLINTA* people to strengthen Asian queer and feminist community spaces.
Our proposed activities include:
📚Empowerment through a Storytelling Book
🖊️Legal Guidebook
💻Digital Campaign
🎨Poster Empowerment workshop
🌍Extending our research and dissemination
Our collaboration from the DAAD exchange continues and the migration policy group forum to grow.
This fall, we:
Presented at the MIM seminar at Malmö University, discussing intersectional approaches to understanding anti-Asian racism and cross-border solidarity in Europe;
Contributed to a seminar of developing teaching intervention at Universitat Duisburg-Essen, introducing frameworks for recognizing and addressing anti-Asian racism in Germany;
Delivered an online guest lecture at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, sharing perspectives on anti-Asian racism and activism in Europe to broaden Asian American studies and discussions.
Hyunjung giving an introductory class “Seminar: Selected Focus Areas in Intercultural Psychology” at the Universität Duisburg-Essen, Photo Courtesy of Philipp
Thank you Philipp, Rich and Sayaka for the opportunities to disseminate our research and activism.
🧡 Together, We Keep Building
We’re proud of what we’ve achieved together, but we know the road ahead is long and we need you with us. Whether it’s sharing our posts, forwarding our newsletter, joining AVE CLUB, making a donation, or just checking in! You’re part of this story.
More updates to come soon. Until then, thank you for walking with us. ✊
– The AVE Team
Author: Hyunjung
Editor: Szilivia
Image: Hansun, Philipp, Leh
