I was in my mid-20s when I realized I was not white. Somewhere along the line, I had fooled myself into believing that my Filipina and Chinese identity was a passport to whiteness. The conditionality of my American identity became even more salient following the onslaught of anti-Asian rhetoric and COVID-19 racial discrimination that echoed the yellow peril myth from the late 19th century (Litam, 2020). On more than one occasion, I was told to go back to China. On several occasions, I was followed, shunned, or denied service. These experiences ripped away the illusion that my proximity to whiteness left me immune to racial discrimination.I received the same messages that many Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) individuals internalize from their families. “Don’t rock the boat.” “Keep your head down.” “Don’t make waves.” As a foreign-born Filipina woman, I also inherited a colonial mentality that perpetuated notions of anti-Blackness. My cousins enviously commented on my fair complexion and “good hair” while denigrating their own golden-brown skin. My elders discouraged me from playing outside to avoid becoming itim, Tagalog for black. I was in my early 30s when I fully understood how deeply the colonial mentality could sink into Filipino minds and actively worked toward a decolonized mindset. I humbly share my own journey and experiences to create space, offer compassion, and give permission to other AAPI individuals to identify, understand, and challenge the roles of intergenerational trauma, traditional cultural notions, and inherited sentiments of anti-Blackness to understand the effects of white supremacy in their own lives.The undeniable murder of George Floyd solidified the presence of two simultaneous pandemics: racism and COVID-19. Despite cultural messages that endorsed inaction, I felt compelled to mitigate the pain felt by my AAPI community and cultivate multiracial unity instead of waiting for others to do the work. I leveraged my privilege as a researcher and counselor educator to effect change. I challenged my counseling department to incorporate antiracist curricula, explore their own white fragility, and support faculty of Color. I published manuscripts that decolonized mental health practices for professional counselors working with AAPI and communities of Color in a post-pandemic reality. I expanded my research foci to encompass the effects of COVID-19 racial discrimination on AAPI well-being and the process of cultivating AAPI solidarity for the #BlackLivesMatter movement. I invite other researchers to become invested and involved with antiracism efforts by incorporating an intersectional lens and critical race perspective into their research.Professional counselors are called to interrupt their personal biases, challenge anti-Black sentiments, and mobilize toward thick solidarity. Thick solidarity is based on a radical belief that honors the inherent value of lives despite the impossibility of fully understanding or sharing in those lived experiences (Liu & Shange, 2018). Counselors must acknowledge the distinct experiences of Black oppression without being confused, hindered, or incapacitated by privilege guilt. I define privilege guilt as the experience of overwhelm following recognition of the profundity of Black oppression and simultaneous acknowledgement of one’s own privilege(s) that results in inaction. Counselors can begin to move past privilege guilt and mobilize toward thick solidarity by standing with the Black community without centering non-Black voices. Ultimately, one does not need to share in the distinctness of Black oppression in order to fight it. Counselors must additionally recognize that white privilege does not need to be an induction of shame; is it not a great privilege to be able to leverage one’s power in ways that lift up the humanity of others? Recognizing how simple everyday acts, like speaking up and taking action, can be grounded in thick solidarity represents an invaluable strategy to begin transcending privilege guilt.AAPI professional counselors can work toward multiracial unity by illuminating the history of Afro-Asian solidarity. These stories exist in the collective cultural memory but are not often recounted and risk being forgotten. Asian American liberation is directly tied to Black liberation. We must tell the stories of Yuri Kochiyama, Grace Lee Boggs, and countless others who were emblematic of solidarity, equity, and change. Finally, we must all challenge people-of-color blindness (Sexton, 2010), which ignores the systemic privileges and oppression that exist among different People of Color. Though we are all oppressed, we are not tethered to oppression in the same way.Counselors are encouraged to recognize how their intersecting identities maintain systemic oppression and effect change within their respective purviews. Actions can include supporting Black counseling professionals, students, divisions, private practices, and communities. Counselors must also cultivate compassion for ourselves and others. The journey toward cultural competence, thick solidarity, and multiracial unity takes emotional endurance, patience, and a lifelong commitment to learning. Though change takes time, baby steps are still steps.To my fellow AAPI counselors, I not only challenge you to rock the boat, I implore you to make waves. We must consider whether the cost of maintaining silence outweighs the continued oppression embedded in the status quo. We must recognize how the model minority discourse epitomizes the weaponization of our AAPI identities, and we can no longer allow ourselves to be pawns in this game of racial oppression. Let the waves of our voices, our actions, and our fortitude crash against institutionalized racism and wash away the pain of our own racial trauma. Rock the boat by challenging the status quo in your private practices, community agencies, and academic settings. Recognize that as AAPIs, we inherently benefit from notions of anti-Blackness and white supremacy. We occupy unique spaces and must commit to using our privilege to promote equity for ourselves and others. The call to action for AAPI professional counselors is clear: If enough of us rock the boat, we can make waves.