Yellow Peril Self-Awareness Manual


Edited introduction 2 January 2025:

My friends at Remember & Resist collaborated with me to produce two zines. One is our manifesto, the Yellow Peril Self-Awareness Manual. This is our offering to those among our approximate class (intelligentsia, nonprofit workers & students with working class / owner-operator / aspirational parents) who are bored of the mainstream Stop Asian Hate narrative and aesthetic.

Maybe you don’t even realise you’re tired of it because this is the only version of things that’s been presented to you. 

You felt you were a part of something promising in the early days of Stop Asian Hate a few years ago, but now you’re getting frustrated by people and organisations around you…

  • Do you feel that you’re never allowed to be angry? 
  • Have you ever been told you’re both rude and idealistic? 
  • Are you feeling social pressure to be “nice”, “measured”, “professional” and “objective”? 
  • Maybe you’re confused by everyone telling the same public backstory of hardworking business ownership or self-employment… 
  • Annoyed when other Asians talk about how they have feelings too and how they just want to fit in and be accepted? (All this begging and pleading is horrific, isn’t it?)
  • Bored of cosy, corporate, clean and respectable ESEA aesthetics?
  • Ever felt alienated from the respectability of Stop Asian Hate movement, or the cultural shift towards ESEA joy? 
  • Maybe it’s because you’re not respectable or joyful, and because you’re not sure how focusing on this version of “ESEA” identity connects to other urgent social movements…
  • Do you want to honour your rage?

Then our manifesto is for you.

Download the zine for free! [PDF link]

Currently, my personal website is the only place the online zine is hosted. It will be free to read & download online for the foreseeable future. Please consider contributing to or sharing the highlighted campaigns on Gaza Funds if you download our zine.

We have also riso-printed physical copies with the legends at Pagemasters. Please follow Remember & Resist on instagram (@remember.resist) for updates on where to purchase them!