This year, we’re partnering up with StoryCorps to conduct interview recordings with LGBTQ API storytellers. StoryCorps has collected over 50,000 interviews and deposited them into the Library of Congress where they will remain forever. This is a huge opportunity for us to amplify LGBTQ API stories, as they will be shared on the internet, radio and other
We are a proud community partner of QWOCMAP. This year’s film festival features some of our Dragon Fruit Project and highlights some of our rockstar volunteers! Look out for: Swanicorn Jaq Nguyen Victor (2014) Finding Each Other Shirley Hsin*I Liu (2015) Sex, Politics & Sticky Rice Tina Takemoto (2014) Jasmine’s Jubilee Lynn Sugihara (2015) The 11th annual Queer Women
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 hours. Give OUT Day helps us amplify our voices, increase visibility of our work, and
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, it was impossible to find representations of LGBTQ people in the media or have
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 will be also be shared with local artists Kat Evasco and John Caldon on the
“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 Equality – Northern California, our volunteer committees power our work. Our committees include: Fundraising,
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 and communities through social justice workshops, skills-building trainings and community engagements. In my three
