Cultural Community Support

One of the most crucial components of ensuring the social and material wellbeing of a community, especially within the United States, is investing in socioeconomic wellbeing. Glenda Joe’s Asian American Merchants’ Handbook is a foundational text for Asian American business owners and entrepreneurs to give them insight into American cultural practices that will set them up for success and mitigate potential difficulties with discrimination in the future.

Other crucial components that Joe feverishly invested in were mental health, sexual health, interpersonal violence prevention, women’s rights, and social treatment. Joe was, like the other women in this exhibition, heavily involved and actively working to cater to and open doors for those most in need and most consistently harmed by the systems set in place that are designed to exclude them, particularly women and women of color.