Volunteers, Staff, and Interns at Trans March API Equality – Northern California showed up with purpose for the 2014 San Francisco Pride Weekend. We want to recognize and honor that the original Pride was a rally. It was a resistance, led by those most marginalized and excluded. We want to remember members of our community
For almost two years, the Berkeley South Asian Radical History Walking Tour has been traversing the streets of Berkeley, uncovering and recovering over 100 years of radical South Asian American history. The trek, led by Barnali Ghosh and Anirvan Chatterjee, is a two mile, three hour long tour where history meets storytelling and street theater.
Back in 2011, I attended my first QWOCMAP Film Festival, the annual film festival for the Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project. I never identified as “queer” or even as “a person of color” before that. Working in the tech industry, living in the middle of San Francisco, I really had no clue what
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.
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
