By Tracy Nguyen Every Monday afternoon, Asian Prisoner Support Committee (APSC) holds a class with Asian, Pacific Islander, and “Other” prisoners at San Quentin State Prison. The ROOTS (Restoring Our Original and True Selves) program seeks to increase knowledge about API culture, history, community issues, and healing practices. With guest speakers, group discussion, personal sharing,
June 26th, 2015 Today the Supreme Court made a historic ruling that gave all same sex couples the freedom to marry in the United States. As an organization that formed out of the struggle for marriage equality here in San Francisco just over ten years ago, API Equality – Northern California values the persistence, love,
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 program broadens the scope of what it means to be queer. These
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 a society that does not consistently value and affirm their lives. This week, we
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 building armed with the tools to accurately document our stories on a
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 of South Asians Taking Action (ASATA) and the folks from the Berkeley South Asian Radical
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 to Dragon Fruit Project’s first ever Wiki Hack! For the past year and a
