Thriving Together: Queer apis Building Community, Solidarity, & Movement

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In November 2016, it’s not just an open Presidency but the entire United States Congress is up for re-election. Everything is at stake from civil rights laws to environmental protections to policies on racial profiling to immigration. The right-wing groups are sure to mobilize to turn out their base. In the past, LGBTQ AAPI groups and individuals have conducted voter registration drives, voter education, poll site interpretation, and election protection/poll monitoring. Presenters will survey the issues, explore ways to be engage the elections, and review new findings on the Asian American electorate.

Glenn D. Magpantay, Executive Director, National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance, New York, NY

Kham Moua, Policy Associate, OCA National - APA Advocates, Board Member, National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance, Washington, DC

Christine Chen, Executive Director, Asian and Pacific Islander American Vote, Washington, DC

Victoria Kirby York, National Campaigns Director of Religious Exemptions and Welcoming Communities, National LGBTQ Task Force

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Raising LGBTQ AAPI Voices: The Power of Storytelling

When we tell our stories, public opinion about our rights, dignity, and lives changes. Yet all too often, the main LGBTQ voices have been predominantly white and male. LGBTQ Asians, South Asians, Southeast Asians, Pacific Islanders, women, and gender-variant people, among others, have been overlooked. Come learn about the cutting edge work being done to lift LGBTQ AAPI voices and how you can do the same with your voice.

Sammie Ablaza Wills, Program Assistant, API Equality-Northern California, Bay Area, CA

Elena Chang and Leslie Kuo, Co-Directors, Asian Pride Project, New York, NY

Janani Balasubramanian, artist/activist, and Communications Coordinator, National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance, New York, NY

Mia Nakano, Founder and Director, Visibility Project, Oakland, CA

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International Solidarity

In some countries in Asia and the Pacific, it can be dangerous to be LGBTQ. In other countries, laws and cultural norms are more progressive and inclusive. Come learn about sexual orientation and gender-identity discrimination and protections around the world; appropriate strategies for domestic LGBTQ activists to support efforts for liberation that respect local cultural traditions; and ways that activists here can learn from LGBTQ activists abroad to inform our work here and back home.

Urooj Arshad, Associate Director, International Youth Health and Rights at Advocates for Youth, Washington, DC

Nick Sakurai, Director of Leadership Initiatives at the LGBTQ Equity Center, University of Maryland, College Park, MD

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From the Edges to the Center: Building Community Power

This workshop will help participants explore how to create an inclusive space for queer AAPI folks whose identities also intersect with other marginalized identities—women, trans folks, working class folks, people with disabilities, recent immigrants, etc. We will also talk about the importance of doing this work in the context of building community power, solidarity, and collaboration across multiple issues.

Presenters

Nico Amador, Co-Director, Training for Change, Oakland, CA

Shreya Shah, Program Coordinator, Training for Change, Oakland, CA

NOTE: This is a 3-hour workshop covering two time slots. All participants are asked to stay for the entire time.

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Being an Ally to the AAPI BOPP Community

This workshop is for AAPI communities that want to create a safe, inclusive space for their bisexual, omnisexual, polysexual, and pansexual members. Get the basic tools to inclusive language and to create safe spaces for the non-monosexual, bisexual, pansexual, omnisexual, and polysexual members of our communities.

Presenters

Apphia K, Board Member, SALGA-NYC, New York, NY

Joy Messinger, Core Member, Invisible to Invincible: Asian Pacific Islander Pride of Chicago, , IL

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Rage Against the Dying of the Light: Aging from AAPI and LGBTQ Perspectives

What are the unique needs that AAPI and LGBTQ people face as they get older? Are programs, services, policies, and laws meeting those needs? This discussion will identify some of the resources that are out there for AAPI and LGBTQ elders and will allow participants to think about whether they are appropriate for those of us who are both.

Presenters

Ben de Guzman, National Managing Coordinator, Diverse Elders Coalition, Washington, DC

Serena Worthington, Director of National Field Initiatives, Services and Advocacy for GLBT Elders, Chicago, IL

Kim Hunt, Executive Director, Affinity, Inc., Chicago, IL

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Protected and Served?: Addressing Systemic Neglect and Misconduct by the Criminal Justice System

This workshop will review key LGBTQ AAPI findings from a national survey of LGBTQ/HIV community experiences with police, prisons, courts and school. Presenters will examine policy recommendations and strategies to address discrimination, violence, and misconduct and to make schools, police, courts, and prisons more culturally competent and accountable to LGBTQ community members.

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