- 5.21.15 – Give OUT Day May 4, 2015
One year ago, API Equality – Northern California participated for the first time in Give OUT Day 2014, a national initiative to mobilize individual giving on a single day across the country to the LGBT nonprofit community. It lasts 24 ...
- Yifan Mai May 4, 2015
YIFAN MAI identifies as a queer cis-male Chinese-Singaporean. Currently, he is a software engineer at Coursera, an education technology company.
Growing up in Singapore, Yifan felt very disconnected from his queer identity. Because of state censorship and a culture of shame, ...
- Rise UP! Immigration Week of Action 2015 May 1, 2015
For NQAPIA’s Immigration Week of Action on April 13th-18th, API Equality – Northern California interviewed Jenna Rapues, Kat Evasco, Penny Baldado, and Amy Lin through StoryCorps.
We shared highlights of their stories through a social media campaign for the Week of Action:
These four interviews ...
- Team APIENC March 2, 2015
“Being a part of team APIENC, even for just this short while, has been a transformative process for me. I’ve learned a lot about myself and most importantly, about what I want to contribute as part of this community.” – Michelle Lin
At API ...
- Coming out to CAA Parent Advocates February 25, 2015
by Betty Cao
On February 7th, I facilitated an LGBT workshop with the immigrant Chinese parent leaders I work with at Chinese for Affirmative Action (CAA). The CAA’s Parent Advocates program develops monolingual speaking Chinese parents into leaders in their schools ...
- March 15th – Join us at CAAMFest 2015! February 19, 2015
API Equality Northern California is glad to be a community partner and co-presenter for CAAMFest 2015, hosted by the Center for Asian American Media.
We will be presenting the following programs:
Out/Here Shorts Program
This year’s collection of short films for CAAMFest’s OUT/HERE ...
- 2015 Lunar New Year Mixer with API LGBTQ organizations February 12, 2015
We’re mixing it up this Lunar New Year with GAPA, NRJ, and APIQWTC! on February 28th!
Buy your tickets and connect with other LGBTQ API organizations in the Bay Area!
Lunar New Year Mixer
Saturday, February 28, 2015, 6-9pm
Manor West – 750 Harrison St, ...
- Apply for APIENC’s 2015 Summer Internship Program February 10, 2015
Do you want to work with LGBTQ API communities? Do you have a commitment to social justice? Do you want to learn concrete community organizing skills?
API Equality – Northern California is now accepting applications for our 2015 Internship Program!
Applications are ...
- February 28th – Dragon Fruit partners with StoryCorps January 12, 2015
On Saturday, February 28th, we’re partnering up with StoryCorps to conduct interview recordings with six storytellers. StoryCorps has collected over 50,000 interviews and deposited them into the Library of Congress. This is a huge opportunity for us to amplify LGBTQ ...
- AAPI Institute at Creating Change 2015 January 12, 2015
We’re excited to connect with our #QAPI friends, partners, and allies at the 2015 National LGBTQ Task Force Creating Change Conference in Denver, Colorado on February 5-8.
You can find a list of the activities we’re co-coordinating with our partners below, ...
- MLin January 12, 2015
MLIN identifies as an Asian American, Chinese American, gender non-conforming person (and goes by they/theirs pronouns).
After recently graduating from Chapman University, MLin moved back to the Bay Area to navigate the real world. Currently, Michelle is interning at a Chinese ...
- For Justice and Liberation: In memory of Jennifer Laude and Mike Brown November 20, 2014
by Tracy Nguyen, Sammie Wills, and Monna Wong
November 20th marks the annual Trans Day of Remembrance (#TDoR), a day founded in 1998 in memoriam and celebration of the trans and gender nonconforming people who have fought, passed, and endured in ...
- Vida Kuang November 3, 2014
VIDA KUANG identities as a an Asian American/ Chinese American/ Women of color/ Cisgender/ SF Chinatown Native. We met Vida Kuang over the summer through our Dragon Fruit Project and fell in love with her creative energy!
Currently, Vida is the Youth ...
- #DragonFruit WIKI EDIT-A-THON LIVE BLOG October 19, 2014
9:15 AM PST : Today’s the day, y’all! Wiki Edit-a-thon starts now! #WikiAPA #DragonFruit
9:30 AM PST: Check in Question: Why are you here today?#ourhistorymatters
9:30 AM PST: Our happy dedicated wiki-hackers.
9:35 AM PST: “By the end of the day, all 17 of us will leave this ...
- Team APIENC runs Berkeley 5K September 23, 2014
My name is Mioi Hanaoka and I am part of the Leadership Team of API Equality – Northern California.
Last November, I ran my very first half marathon with Team APIENC at the inaugural Berkeley Half. We raised over $11,000 to ...
- Listening, Reflecting, and Learning in Community: The Berkeley South Asian Radical History Walking Tour September 9, 2014
This past weekend API Activists from HYPHEN Magazine, the Network on Religion and Justice (NRJ), Asian Prisoner Support Committee (APSC), Chinese for Affirmative Action, APEX Express, and API Equality – Northern California gathered to support the work of the Alliance ...
- Reynaldo Culannay Jr. September 8, 2014
REYNALDO CULANNAY identifies as a gay, 1st generation Filipino-American college student at Pitzer College in East Southern California. He loves boba, is addicted to coffee, and plays too much League of Legends. We call him Rey. Sometimes, Reyrey. He volunteered ...
- Dragon Fruit Project: WIKI HACK September 5, 2014
Wikipedia is one of the most visible and widely used resources for information. However, there is a sparsity of queer API histories on Wikipedia, limited both in detail and in the number of entries.
Thus, we are thrilled to invite you ...
- NQAPIA California Regional Summit August 7, 2014
This July, I had the honor of attending the National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance’s California Leadership Summit. This summit brought together AAPI activists from Northern, Central and Southern California as well as Hawaii. It was a whirlwind of 14 ...
- Jess Suarez August 6, 2014
JESS SUAREZ is a radical queer Filipina, passionate about feminist issues, sex positivity, and being a little bit snarky. At the beginning of 2014, Jess got involved with the Dragon Fruit Project as a transcriber. She has now worked to train ...
