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Share your AAPI story of life, history,
and heritage during AAPI Heritage Month.
THE TOOLKIT
© 2021 www.OurStoriesAreYourStories.com 1
What we are doing and why
The Our Stories Are Your Stories grassroots awareness campaign highlights the
unique voices and stories of our AAPI community to encourage understanding,
empathy, and connection.
The increase in visibility of anti-Asian racism and Members of all minoritized groups know what it feels
xenophobia this past year have opened deep wounds like to be seen as the “other,” rather than as a fellow
for our AAPI elders and served as a painful reminder to human being with a unique and valuable story. Members
younger community members that past discrimination of our AAPI community descend from over 50 countries,
persists. The Our Stories Are Your Stories campaign with different languages, customs, and cultures. Our
seeks to: community includes 5th generation American citizens
and recent immigrants. Some of us are also White, Black,
• Lift up our AAPI family and remind them they are Indigenous, and Latina/o/x. And each of us has a story.
seen, valued, and not alone.
Stories shared through the campaign can live beyond
• Shine a light on different stories that make up the this month of celebration in the Wing Luke Museum’s
AAPI experience, past and present, to:
oral histories archive.
- Dispel misconceptions and foster understanding
of the diversity of stories within the AAPI
We hope you will join us in sharing our videos
community; and
and creating your own. Please use
- Demonstrate that the stories of our AAPI @winglukemuseum, @OurStoriesAreYourStories,
community are not unlike your own. Our stories and #OSAYS as we all share on social media to
are your stories. create a collective wave in AAPI storytelling
during May.
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Join us. Share For this year’s AAPI Heritage Month from
May 1-31, we invite you to share your
your story. AAPI story!
Doug Baldwin, former Seahawks football player, shares loving
memories of the smells and tastes of his Filipina grandmother’s home
cooking. Hollis Wong Wear, Dr. Vin Gupta, Yuji Okamoto, Lauren
Tran, and others provide us with personal, touching, and sometimes
surprising, narratives about their respective life journeys. We are
excited to share their stories with the community.
Your stories deserve to be heard as well. Together we can share our
true AAPI experience.
This Toolkit is available to help your company, organization, friends, or family join in this effort. Tools include:
1 Instructions on how to make 2 Information on how to post 3 Details to submit your videos
your own oral history video. to social media so others for accession to the Wing Luke
can see and share. Museum’s oral history archives.
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Making your oral history video
Thank you for adding your voice to the Our Stories Are Your Stories campaign
so that it can be shared on social media channels, using the hashtags:
@OurStoriesAreYourStories, #OSAYS, and @winglukemuseum.
We hope these guidelines provide helpful direction as • When it comes to Asian representation, what are some
you create your video story. Here’s how to make it a part things that most people aren’t aware of?
of our campaign:
• What is a story that’s been passed down through your
Start by introducing yourself with your first name and family that you’re proud of?
your AAPI heritage, e.g., “I’m Mary Ikeda. I’m Japanese
• What is a story that’s been passed down that is a
American” or however you are comfortable. painful one?
Ideally, we want everyone’s video stories to be unique • What do you want the next generations of your family
and reflect you! If you would like some help, here are to remember and know?
some prompts:
• What traditions do you value most?
• What has made you proud to be AAPI?
• What assumptions do people make about your Asian
identity that you feel are incorrect or misguided?
Please close your video story by reading this statement to help tie every story together:
“I am (name). I am (your AAPI identity). My Story is Our Story.”
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Filming Guidelines • When filming in high-contrast areas, try to keep bright
sources of light out of frame and away from your
You can film your story on your own or with assistance: back; this will often make your silhouette too dark or
produce glare.
• Assisted recording. If you prefer, work with a friend
or family member who can assist with the filming. • If you are reading from a script, try to keep your
prompt as close to the camera as possible to avoid
• Self-recording. If you are unable to work with looking down or too far.
somebody else, you can set up and record yourself.
• Always review your video after you record to make
• Audio. Make sure the microphone is close enough to sure you can be seen and heard clearly!
hear your voice clearly. Doublecheck after recording.
SMARTPHONE TIPS
VIDEO TIPS
• Using the forward-facing camera produces better
• Always record horizontally. video quality than the selfie camera on most
• Short and sweet is best; try to keep your videos to smartphones; try to use the primary camera when
between 1-3 minutes. possible.
• For the best composition, have your face centered in • Please set your video capture to the highest resolution
frame and set the camera up to shoulder height possible; 1080p is recommended for most situations.
• For best results, use a tripod or place your camera or • Turn your phone on Do Not Disturb, so your recording
iPhone on a level and stable surface. doesn’t get interrupted!
• Film in well-lit areas out of harsh shadows or sunlight
when possible.
© 2021 www.OurStoriesAreYourStories.com 5THINGS TO THINK ABOUT CHEAT SHEET
• Make sure there are no logos, artwork, or other • Film horizontally if on a mobile device
trademarked/copywritten material in the background.
• Film in 1080p if possible
• Video clips should be 100% family friendly for • Film in a quiet location
maximum social media coverage and submission to
the Wing Luke Museum oral history archives. • Film in a well-lit location
• If you’re the one recording, feel free to try as many • Speak clearly
takes as you like until you are happy with the video! • Review your video before you send
© 2021 www.OurStoriesAreYourStories.com 6Inspiration There is no “right” way for this DIY video except we ask
you to include the introduction and end statements.
We have included video examples for inspiration, or you can see our videos at
www.OurStoriesAreYourStories.com. We’ve provided these as different ways to
tell your story, from an interview to a voiceover.
Tidelands: Reina Acab 50 Objects: Toy Tank at Tule Lake CAPE #IAM: Wong Fu Story
AAPI Heritage Month: Belonging in America Drawn to... Family! | Asian-American Pacific
Islander Heritage Month | Cartoon Network
© 2021 www.OurStoriesAreYourStories.com 7Posting on social media
After making your video, post on social media with your own personal caption
and be sure to tag @OurStoriesAreYourStories or @OSAYS_AAPI on Twitter, and
@winglukemuseum. Please also include “My story is our story. What’s yours?
#OSAYS” at the end of the post copy. You can include #OSAYS and any other
hashtags that you’d like such as #AAPIHM and #AAPI.
We will watch for your posts on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn. Thoughts on each:
Instagram is highly visual and good if your Facebook – stronger traffic driver, better
video is short. Leverage Carousel posts with for longer videos, add a description of
a mix of video and photos. Put hashtags in over 300 characters to videos to increase
comments: @OurStoriesAreYourStories, engagement, @OurStoriesAreYourStories,
#OSAYS, @winglukemuseum @winglukemuseum
Twitter – if that’s your social of choice, LinkedIn – this may be a good way to share
use it with @OSAYS_AAPI, #OSAYS, your story for AAPI Heritage Month with
@winglukemuseum work associates. @OurStoriesAreYourStories,
@winglukemuseum
© 2021 www.OurStoriesAreYourStories.com 8The Wing Luke Museum’s
Oral History Archives
We look forward to seeing all videos for Our Stories “Our Oral History Program documents, preserves,
Are Your Stories. In June 2021, we will package all video and shares first-person stories from those who
files received and submit for accession to the Wing Luke often get overlooked—missing voices in our
Museum’s oral history files. Here’s what you need to do: community’s history. Whether a life story told
over many tales, or a single chapter focused
• Send your completed videos to videos@
on a particular event or topic, oral histories are
ourstoriesareyourstories.com along with this Content
the building blocks for a richer, fuller view of
Release Submission Form.
the past…and by making our Oral History Lab
• The Wing Luke Museum will review and approve your available as a community resource, we empower
video, getting in touch with you if there is additional people to tell their own stories, and preserve them
information required. as primary sources for future researchers. Our
collection of oral history transcripts is available at
• When sending large files, use a file sharing service
such as Google Drive, iCloud, SharePoint, Dropbox, the Governor Gary Locke Library and Community
etc. WeTransfer.com also offers a free large-size file Heritage Center.”
transfer service (maximum 2GB file size) that sends a The Wing Luke Museum of the
download link to a recipient. Asian Pacific American Experience website
© 2021 www.OurStoriesAreYourStories.com 9With gratitude
We thank the Wing Luke Museum for their role as fiscal sponsor of Their funding supports the nearly 100% AAPI
this project and in preserving our stories. crew who have come together to film, edit,
and produce this work. It also supports the
We are grateful to the following companies and foundations, as well
agencies and companies, AAPI and allies,
as a number of individuals, whose generosity and compassion are
helping with broadcast, digital, and social
bringing this vision to life.
media outreach.
Our goal is to pay the crew fair wages and
reimburse costs to our partner companies.
Many have donated their time and the rest
have discounted their fees in recognition
of this important work. The team below
is donating 100% of their time they are
spending on this project. If you’re interested in
contributing to this campaign, please donate
to the Wing Luke Museum, and reference
“OSAYS” in the notes section.
Sincerely,
Mimi Gan
Mi2Media LLC, and the incredible creative team
Mari Horita Maya Mendoza-Exstrom
Seattle Kraken Seattle Sounders FC
Katherine Cheng Betti Fujikado
Expedia Group Copacino Fujikado
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