As I was walking to API Equality – Northern California’s Dragon Fruit Transcribing Day (Special Edition), I was thinking in my head “Why am I doing this on my birthday?” I could have gone shopping, met up with some friends, or stayed home playing videogames. But after spending a few hours listening to an audio
CAM BUI is one of our newest volunteers! She is a queer cisgender Asian-American woman who has just recently become involved in our Dragon Fruit Project. She is also a full-time student in kinesiology at SF State University. In high school, Cam was involved in C.A.T., which is a coalition in the South Bay against teens smoking tobacco.
API Equality – Northern California builds LGBTQ API power to amplify our voices and increase visibility of our communities. We inspire and train leaders, establish intergenerational connections, and document and disseminate our histories. Pride is the perfect time of the year to engage our LGBTQ API community! Friday, June 27th @ 6PM March with API
Today, we choose SOLIDARITY over COMPETITION with other queer and trans people of color. We choose ABUNDANCE over SCARCITY. We ALL deserve to get what we need, and API Equality – Northern California would not be able to do our work and build our communities without the existence and power of so many others, including
Back in March, I took part in a Dragon Fruit Project transcribing day, where folks spent a Sunday morning transcribing interviews of queer API activists. I had the opportunity to interview a queer API person of faith. Initially I was nervous, but my eagerness grew as I thought about the intersections of those three identities.
DEVIKA GHAI is a South Asian queer woman, born and raised in New Delhi, India. Growing up in New Delhi, she saw stark examples of poverty and wealth disparities, which will later ground her in understanding the different forms of injustice. Now residing in Oakland, Devika works towards food justice at Pesticide Action Network as an
It’s the time of year again where we’re ramping up for our summer internship program! This year we’re proud to welcome our 5th cohort, and we’re kicking off the season by participating in Give OUT Day. Give OUT is a new national initiative to mobilize individual giving on a single day across the country to
