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Face of America: Hawai'i | Nalani Kanaka'ole Interview

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Queer Dark Energy (Janani Balasubramanian) + #ActivistTuesdays

"Janani Balasubramanian is a South Asian literary and performance artist based in Brooklyn.  Their work deals broadly with empire, desire, microflora, ancestry, apocalypse, and the Future.  They write for Black Girl Dangerous (an online forum for QTPOC), and work with the Rootspace Design Collective.  They’re currently working on their first sci-fi novel, H.  You can read more of Janani’s work at queerdarkenergy.com."

[Source] More Links and Information

DarkMatter's Official Website

Queer Dark Energy's Poems

Janani's Post on Black Girl Dangerous

"trans/national" - Video

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Anna May Wong + #ActivistTuesdays

"Anna May Wong: In Her Own Words presents a vivid picture of the first Chinese American movie star – both an architect and a victim of her times. Anna May Wong (1905-1961) was the first Chinese American movie star. She grew up in L.A., daughter of a laundryman. She first starred, at age 17, in Toll of the Sea, a silent version of Madame Butterfly. Her best-remembered film is Shanghai Express with Marlene Dietrich. She made dozens of films in Hollywood, London and Berlin. She was glamorous; photographers flocked to take her portrait. She was worldly and articulate, with friends like Carl van Vechten, Evelyn Waugh and Paul Robeson. Yet she spent most of her career typecast either as a painted doll or a scheming Dragon Lady."

[Source] More Links and Information

Time Magazine Article

New York Times Article

Women Makes Movies - Video

Asian Images in Film - Video

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200 posts! + #ActivistTuesdays

Okay, I lied. We hit 200 posts around 6 posts ago :'D I hope everyone has had fun procrastinating by reading the deluge of posts that I have been reblogging lately. There is no #ActivistTuesdays today as we will resume this project during Week 1 of Winter Quarter. We will be featuring API artists who were or are also activists. We will not be featuring student activists from UCI due to a lack of interest.

You should check out our APAAC website and register for updates :)

www.apaac2014.weebly.com

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Glenn Omatsu + #ActivistTuesdays

"Presently, Glenn teaches Asian American Studies at Pasedena City College, California State Univeresity at Northridge, and UCLA. He authored several essays on Asian American activism and appears in The State of Asian America : Activism and Resistance in the 1990s . With fewer than seven other peers, Glenn formed the first API organization called the Asian American Culture Association. At that time, Glenn did not know that his harbinger efforts as an undergraduate would resonate in today’s UCSC Asian Pacific Islander (API) community." [Source] More Links and Information

Four Prisons - Article

Three Letters - Identity - Video

APAAC Keynote

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The late 1970s and early 1980s were also a period of path-breaking cultural work by women of color, and Asian lesbian writers were active participants.

Trinity A. Ordona

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For Asian and Pacific Islander people on the West Coast and in Hawai'i, collective empowerment gathered hundreds who reclaimed a common past and worked toward a common future. In the 1970s, the pan-Asian/Pacific movement came alive with the energy and ideals of young activists who crisscrossed daily in various community and campus struggles.

Trinity A. Ordona

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Dalip Singh Saund + #ActivistTuesdays

"Judge Dalip Sing Saund, the son of an Amritsar Sikh farming family, graduated from the University of Punjab in the eventful year of 1919 and after the Jallianwala Bagh tragedy plunged actively into the political struggle for independence. Later he went to California, U.S.A., where he joined the Hindustan Ghadar Party. At the same time he studied at Berkeley and obtained a Ph.D. in mathematics. Under the sponsorship of the Sikh Temple Committee of Stockton, California, he published a book in 1930 titled My Mother India, a balanced reply to Miss Mayo’s Mother India. He spearheaded the demand for naturalization of the large Asian community in Southern California after World War II. This was realized in 1949 and he was one of the first of his community to be naturalized as an American citizen. He won his nickname ‘Judge’ from the time he was elected to this office at Westmorland where he gained attention by cleaning up a prostitution and narcotics ring. Later in the U.S. Congress for 6 years, he was a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee and toured Asia and some European countries. In 1958, he was invited by Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru to address a joint session of Indian Parliament in the Central Hall." [Source] More Links and Information

His Website

Roots in the Sand - Portrait

India America Today Article

Interview - Video

Legacy Leader - Video