Yellow Peril Awareness Day

YPAD: Volume 1 - join us for this brand new annual campaign and exhibition in London!

For our Manchester exhibition, please go here.

On 6th May, Voice ESEA are launching YPAD - Yellow Peril Awareness  Day - to share and tell the many uncovered, forgotten and intriguing  British ESEA (East and Southeast Asian) stories that have been  interwoven and embedded into the UK history for centuries.

Yellow Peril - a term that "refers to a general fear, mistrust, and hatred of Chinese and other Asians [in the United States]” (J. Ho 2020)   - continues to rear its ugly head through history and in more recent  years. To ensure the next generation of ESEA people don’t have to battle  anti-ESEA scapegoating, YPAD aims to show that we belong and have done  for much longer than many realise.

6th May commemorates the signing of the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act,  which explicitly prohibited Chinese immigrants from entering the  country by US law. To date, it is the earliest and first known ban a  country has made explicitly against a certain ethnic group. For 83  years, until 1965, it justified top-down, racial tension, inclusive of  riots and massacres of the Chinese people who already lived there. On  the other side of the border, it historically kept the six Chinese survivors of the Titanic stranded on a lifeboat instead of getting treatment, when they’d suffered exactly the same as the other survivors.

From the first Japanese visitors to England in the 1500s to the secretly deported thousands of Chinese seamen who had helped Britain during WW2, and from the perilous journeys of Vietnamese refugees from the mid-70s through to the 90s to the untold experiences of Filipino domestic workers over the years, these are just some of the stories being highlighted this year.

With our annual Yellow Peril Awareness Day, we want to:

1. Uplift and educate about the depth of ESEA history, inclusive of yellow peril and its global impact.

2. Implement resources for top-down changemakers in the British public.

3. Empower ESEA people to acknowledge their belongingness, share their experiences and be emboldened to report incidents.​

Where: Pelican House, 144 Cambridge Heath Road, Bethnal Green, London, E1 5QJ

When: Monday 6th May, 11am to 4pm (please pick a  time slot when ordering tickets, but you do not definitively have to  arrive during this time - it just allows us to know the capacity of the  venue throughout the day)

https://www.tickettailor.com/events/voiceesea/1219202#

⭐️Event Organiser: ESEA Voice @eseavoice

💡Price: from £3

🗓Date: 6 May 2024