Thriving Together: Queer apis Building Community, Solidarity, & Movement
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PresentersMia Nakano, Executive Director, Visibility Project, San Francisco, CA NOTE: This is a 3-hour shoot covering two time slots. Tower 611 Movie: Freedom SummerThis film looks back at the summer of 1964, when more than 700 student activists took segregated Mississippi by storm, registering voters, creating freedom schools and establishing the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. 113 mins Presenter??? NOTE: This is a 2 hour film screening covering two time slots. Tower 302 2:50 p.m. to 4:05 p.m. – Session 3: Workshops The State of the LGBTQ Movement: Where We’ve Been & Where We’re Going This year over 100 anti-LGBTQ bills were introduced in state legislatures across the country; including over-reaching Indiana-style religious exemption bills. This session will be an overview of what the movement has been addressing in 2015 and what to look out for in the 2016 legislative calendar. We will also discuss upcoming ballot initiatives and state and local proposed laws that will add sexual orientation and gender identity/expression as a protected class, how the backlash from marriage equality is impacting state and local laws, we’ll share the Ballot Initiative Strategy Center’s most up-to-date ballot measure map for 2015 and 2016 detailing definite and potential regressive and progressive ballot measures on issues that impact us all, and what you can specifically do to make a difference in your communities and within your organizations. PresentersVictoria Kirby York, National Campaigns Director of Religious Exemptions and Welcoming Communities, National LGBTQ Task Force Malcolm Shanks, Organizer in the Academy for Leadership & Action, National LGBTQ Task Force SCE Fort Dearborn Perspectives: How Local and State Government can Address the Needs of LGBTQ AAPIsThis workshop will present innovative ideas from a city-/state-wide perspective of how municipal governments can improve the quality of life of AAPI LGBTQ residents in their local areas. We will showcase the AAPI LGBTQ Community Task Force of Washington DC where local AAPI LGBTQ groups are able to connect with the local police, government officials, and LGBTQ organizations to share their concerns so that proper fixes can be made. We are also working with partner organizations to make sure that we run PSAs to support our LGBTQ community. PresentersDavid Do, Executive Director, Office on Asian and Pacific Islander Affairs, Washington, DC Kingston Kodan, President, KhushDC, Washington, DC Lance Toma, Executive Director, Asian & Pacific Islander Wellness Center, San Francisco, CA Marsha Aizumi, National Board of Directors, PFLAG, Pasadena, CA SCE Cardinal Do You Speak English? Organizing across Language to Educate AAPIs about Being LGBTQ Four out of five (81%) of the nation’s Asian Americans speak a language other than English in their homes. Yet, LGBTQ organizing is almost exclusively done in English. Very few LGBTQ publications in the US are written in any Asian language. At the same time, right-wing groups have made inroads into limited-English proficient AAPI communities attacking LGBTQs. Because such an enormous part of the Asian American community does not speak English, LGBTQ AAPI groups must contemplate multilingual activities, such as translating promotional materials and outreaching to limited-English proficient APAs to build allies and make the community more aware. This workshop will explore some of the limitations, challenges, and benefits of organizing across language. Presenters: Mark Ro Beyersdorf, Coordinating Committee, Dari Project, New York, NY Aries Liao and Suma Reddy, Co-Founders and Co-Directors, Asian Pride Project, New York, NY Dennis Mallillin, Psychotherapist/Senior Medical Case Manager, API Wellness Center, San Francisco, CA Ryan S. Dolan, Data Dissemination Specialist, United States Census Bureau, Minneapolis, MN
For many of us queer AAPIs, our daily lived experiences necessitate organizing against police terror. In this workshop, PrYSM (Providence Youth Student Movement) will go into the history of the police in order to connect lived experiences with how racism became systematic and institutionalized throughout time. We will discuss how police are a designed system that keeps communities marginalized, not just on a local crime level, but also in decisions around borders and nations. Finally, we will talk about ways that we organize against police on the city, state, and national levels through legislation, international forums, and community patrols. Presenters Providence Youth and Student Movement (PrYSM), Providence, RI SCE White Oak B AAPI Policy, Advocacy, and Movement Building in IllinoisThis session will weave the issues of the Trust Act (stopping deportations), Revenue Not Cuts (fighting to protect essential services to immigrants, youth, seniors, and communities of color), and Domestic Worker Bill of Rights and their connection to structural racism, sexism, xenophobia, and corporate greed. In the end, we will provide a vision and tangible opportunities to be part of building a movement that addresses systemic issues and develops leaders through building a sustainable and inclusive movement. PresentersKristina Tendilla, Asian Americans Advancing Justice | Chicago, IL SCE Monarch Thriving as a Queer Asian Student Leader on your College CampusIt can be challenging to thrive on a college campus as a queer Asian student leader. Through an interactive workshop, led by Purdue student leaders, participants will strengthen leadership skills to create change on their college campuses, identify ways to build alliances within or outside of the Pan-Asian community on their campuses, and learn how to be inclusive and supportive allies to students with diverse intersecting identities, including international identities. Directory: wpp wpp -> Abarro, George III c. Abear, Roger F wpp -> Name diplomate fpcr wpp -> Ubiquitous tango Download 483.88 Kb. Share with your friends:
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