Author: Lavender Phoenix

Medha Asthana

JUL 2018 | MEDHA MEDHA is a volunteer and Core member of APIENC! Medha Asthana identifies as a queer Indian American, born in India and raised in the Midwest and the SF Bay Area. Outside of APIENC, Medha is an Organizer at Californians for Justice. They work with high school students in East San Jose,

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Skate with your fellow APIENC-ERS!

Learn How to Skateboard: Beginner’s Basic 101 with Lorl and Yams BYOB: It’s bring your own board event! Who: Everyone and all levels but centering queer trans folx beginners! What: Learn how to skateboard (this entails the basics!) Where: Golden Gate Park! (at the skatin’ place near 8th and Fulton) When: Sunday, July 15, 2018

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Image description: Text reads "Asians and Pacific Islanders at Trans March 2018. Save the date: Friday June 22nd. Program: 5-6 pm March 6-8 pm RSVP: bit.ly/qtapiTM2018" Text is overlayed over 2017 contingent photo.

March with us! Trans March 2018

Join APIENC (API Equality – Northern California), along with Third World Resistance for this year’s Trans March on Friday 6/22 to chant, march, and fight for liberation with trans, gender nonconforming, and allied API people! We want to show up to Trans March 2018 as a powerful contingent committed to fighting for justice and liberation

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Creating Liberation Together: Reflections from TGNC Rights & Empowerment Day

On March 24th, 2018 our Trans Justice Working Group facilitated APIENC’s first Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming Rights and Empowerment Day (RED)! We made space for a whole day centering our TGNC Asian and Pacific Islander community, full of workshops that emphasized our rights, healthcare, and empowerment. At the event, we prepared an art and zine station,

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