Tandem®, Partners in Early Learning® stands in solidarity with the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities. We condemn the horrific murders in Atlanta and the anti-Asian hate crimes and violence occurring throughout this country. We condemn white supremacy culture, racism, scapegoating, misogyny, and oppression of any kind.

One of Tandem’s organizational values is diversity and inclusion. We are committed to uncovering and dismantling white supremacy culture, racism, and discrimination within our organization and throughout our community.

We all have a duty to ground our practices in anti-racist principles. Tandem will continue to deepen our work, through books and authentic partnerships with community members, to:

• Celebrate the richness of diverse ethnicities and cultures to counter the homogenization, invisibility, and erasure in monolithic terms like “Asian;” 
• Help educators, caregivers, and children to have honest, anti-racist conversations to recognize and dismantle biases and othering;
• Uplift the power and strength of women and LGBTQ+ individuals; and 
• Affirm the humanity and dignity of every person.

Tandem believes in building a world where multiracial solidarity is the norm, where all people and all children belong and thrive. We commit to our work towards racial justice.

The Tandem community stands in solidarity with the AAPI communities.

—The Staff and Board of Directors of Tandem, Partners in Early Learning

Additional Resources 

We encourage you to engage with and support the work of individuals and organizations in the early childhood field that support AAPI communities. Please find a few recommended resources below, and we welcome suggestions as we update this list. 

• Grace Lin on books as tools, and that books alone are not enough 
• Joanna Ho, on how “it’s OK to be different” normalizes white standards
• Resources from We Need Diverse Books 
• Embrace Race: Violence Against Asian Americans: How Do We Support the Children? (webinar this evening, 3/24, 5:30pm PST)
• Stories of Asian American Women from Asian Lit for Kids 
• Review from Little Browngirl Bookshelf about “Outside Inside” by LeUyen Pham, a book by an Asian-American author describing the pandemic 
• Bystander Intervention Training to Stop Anti/Asian American and Xenophobic Harassment