🍉 Disability Justice & Palestinian Liberation 🍉 Over the next several months, API Equality-LA will share how our liberation as queer and trans Asians is tied to other communities impacted by global systems of oppression. We offer these reflections in hopes of activating other queer and trans Asians to move in solidarity with oppressed peoples from Gaza to Hawai‘i to the Congo to Sudan to Kashmir and beyond. As a grassroots organization, our focus is on serving queer and trans Asians in Southern California. However, we see our identities and experiences as politically connected to movements across constructed borders, walls, and lines of empire. Drawing on our guiding frameworks of Disability Justice, Transformative Justice, and Healing Justice, we offer the following series as an entry point for those who share these values and are seeking a political home and community. A liberated world is possible if we choose to build it together. We hope you will join us. Read more at: apiequalityla.org/disability-justice-x-palestine or tap the link in our bio! Image descriptions included in alt-text. (fb)

Share your story! Call for show guests - LAist's new Asian American and Pacific Islander history-centered podcast wants to hear your family stories! The LAist team are looking to interview: • AAPI individuals who want to explore how major moments in history influenced themselves and their family members. They are interested in those who: • Live in California, or have family connections to California • Have a working knowledge of their family history • Have already begun asking questions about their history Each episode will center on an AAPI family in California that was affected by a major historical event, including but not limited to the following: • The wave of immigration from China, the Philippines, India, Korea, and other Asian countries following the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 • The wave of immigration from Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos after 1975 • The Los Angeles Uprising in 1992, or Sa-i-gu • September 11th’s impact on South Asians in California • The Third World Liberation Front and student strikes in California The Delano Grape Strike and Boycott • The El Monte Thai Garment Case Pacific Islander participation in the U.S. military • Japanese incarceration at Manzanar, Tule Lake, Poston and other camps • The Chinese Exclusion Act and Angel Island Additional information: • There will be a 30 minute pre-interview before selecting guests with plans to record in August/September. This will be about a 4-5 hour commitment over the course of a week. • The crew will travel to participants and are willing to exercise COVID precautions. They are all vaccinated, can test beforehand, and wear masks. • The journalists involved are trained and have experience on how to interview individuals with and about trauma and have their own mental health experiences. • The show is able to put guests in touch with BIPOC and LGBTQ mental health professionals if additional support is needed. • They are conscious and intentional in making a safe and supportive space for people to share their stories. If you are interested in being interviewed, visit the link below for the submission form: tinyurl.com/AAPI-podcast-call (fb)