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What does intergenerational work entail?

Last month, I went to the Old Lesbians Organizing for Change conference and spoke on the intergenerational panel. While I was very aware of being the youngest person, I was proud to impart some of my wisdom on the topic of “intergenerational work.” When we were asked, “What does intergenerational work actually entail?”  I felt fully

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The Berkeley South Asian Radical History Walking Tour: Stories, Performance, and Resistance

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.

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It all started with QWOCMAP

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

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Join us at PRIDE 2014

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

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GiveOUT Day: Solidarity over competition

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

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