by Tracy Nguyen I ran into my aunt’s room and turned the old school boombox dial to 1500AM. I heard our voices reciting the Vietnamese script that we practiced for weeks and weeks. We did it! We’re on the radio!, I thought. Immediately, I turned the volume dial lower. My father was in another room
Dancing. It takes a bit to overcome the embarrassment but with enthusiastic teachers, good music and some goofy moves, you’ll get smiles, active participants and a whole lotta positive visibility. I have to admit, at first even I was reluctant to dance in the API Equality and NQAPIA board opening plenary flash mob. My floppy
by Phuong Tseng Have you ever tried calling someone you don’t know or called your friends to donate or volunteer some of their time to a non-profit organization? If you did then congratulations, you have experienced phone banking. Before I start talking about my experiences with phone-banking, I want to let you know that this
When I was asked to write a post about API Equality – Northern California’s experience at the National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance (NQAPIA) Conference, I was perplexed on where to even start. Let me just start by saying that I am writing this post from a young person’s first-time experience at NQAPIA. The conference
Today, Tuesday, November 30th is a National Day of Action for the DREAM Act! Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Speaker of the House Pelosi are committed to passing the DREAM Act before the end of the lame duck session. As many of you know, the DREAM Act provides an opportunity for undocumented youth to
As you can see, we’re making some changes. It may look a bit vanilla right now, but we’ll be changing that soon. And adding more content, too! Over the next few weeks, we’ll be pretty things up a bit and also consolidating our content. We’ll have videos, Facebook updates and tweets. And we’ll be posting
As we settle into the New Year (or get ready to celebrate the Lunar New Year), we at API Equality – Northern California can’t help looking back before we move forward. For many, 2009 was a year of reflecting, refocusing, and reenergizing. It was a year of healing, and we are stronger for it. In
