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[kayancheung]

What do I remember about my mother?

An excerpt from my graphic memoir. 

Thanks to my mentors and peers at CCA’s MFA in Comics program for their support: Bo, Thi Bui, Justin Hall, and many others.

[kayancheung]

Chinatown: Love, Struggle, Resistance

In Chinese and Tagalog/Filipino. View all six posters in Chinese, Spanish, Tagalog and English: https://www.flickr.com/photos/sfac/albums/72177720300544664

On display on San Francisco’s Market Street MUNI bus kiosks August  - October 2022

© Kayan Cheung-Miaw & Vida Kuang

Artists’ Statement

In a few years, the San Francisco Chinatown we know may not exist anymore.

Even before the pandemic, Chinatown had many empty storefronts while hungry developers waited close by. Tenants were vulnerable to displacement due to lack of protection and economic instability. The pandemic also escalated the dehumanization of our AAPI communities through racist scrapgoating.

Our poster series highlights the stories of Chinatown’s mothers, workers and tenants. The comics foreground the themes of love, community, survival, and resistance.

Having our community members’ stories visible and centered through Market Street’s kiosks is a part of ensuring the Chinatown we call home will survive in post-pandemic San Francisco.

Chinatown: Love, Struggle, Resistance is part of the The Art on Market Street Kiosk Poster Series. This series is a project of the San Francisco Arts Commission and the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency.

The Stories Behind the Comics

Most of the stories for this project are inspired by the oral history project “Our Intergenerational Stories 歲月心聲: 家 ” where mothers, women, tenants and workers are invited to tell their own stories. Listen and read the stories that inspired this poster series (forthcoming):

Poster 1 Freedom: Ah Lian’s story Poster 2 Climate March Poster 3 Waiting: Ah Lian’s story Poster 4 Two Americas: Ah Lian’s story Poster 5 Essential Worker: Huang Jie’s story Poster 6 Resistance

Our Intergenerational Stories 歲月心聲: 家 was curated and led by M. Min-Chong Lin and Vida Kuang in 2019 as part of an Intergenerational Oral Storytelling and Photography Workshop Series in partnership with the Chinese for Affirmative Action and their parent leaders.

To learn about and to support the organizing of our communities, please visit:

SRO Families United Collaborative Chinese Progressive Association SF (CPA) Asians 4 Black Lives SF Anti-Displacement Coalition

To learn more about the history of Asian American organizing:

Chinatown Rising Asian Americans PBS documentary series

Acknowledgments:

Thank you for sharing your stories: Ah Lian, Ivy, Huang Jie

Thank you for sharing your photos: Ah Ai (Poster 3, inside SRO photo), Ah Yu (Poster 1, playground photo), Chinatown Community Development Center (Poster 1, shower photo), Brooke Anderson (Poster 6, images of activists), Vida Kuang (Poster 3, SRO hallway photos), Stanley Tudor (Poster 1, kitchen photo)

Thank you to my movement siblings: Laiwa Wu, Emily Lee, and Cynthia Fong

Thank you Tere Almaguer for your guidance in depicting Danza Azteca and for photograph modeling

Thank you for the translations: the San Francisco Office of Civic Engagement & Immigrant Affairs.

Thank you for the support and for making this project possible: Craig Corpora and the San Francisco Arts Commission.

Thank you for modeling for us and providing childcare, and endless support: Ben Lee, Pam Tau Lee, Calvin Cheung-Miaw

[kayancheung]

Chinatown: Love, Struggle, Resistance

In English and Spanish. View all six posters in Chinese, Spanish, Tagalog and English: https://www.flickr.com/photos/sfac/albums/72177720300544664

On display on San Francisco’s Market Street MUNI bus kiosks August  - October 2022

© Kayan Cheung-Miaw & Vida Kuang

Artists’ Statement

In a few years, the San Francisco Chinatown we know may not exist anymore.

Even before the pandemic, Chinatown had many empty storefronts while hungry developers waited close by. Tenants were vulnerable to displacement due to lack of protection and economic instability. The pandemic also escalated the dehumanization of our AAPI communities through racist scrapgoating.

Our poster series highlights the stories of Chinatown’s mothers, workers and tenants. The comics foreground the themes of love, community, survival, and resistance.

Having our community members’ stories visible and centered through Market Street’s kiosks is a part of ensuring the Chinatown we call home will survive in post-pandemic San Francisco.

Chinatown: Love, Struggle, Resistance is part of the The Art on Market Street Kiosk Poster Series. This series is a project of the San Francisco Arts Commission and the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency.

The Stories Behind the Comics

Most of the stories for this project are inspired by the oral history project “Our Intergenerational Stories 歲月心聲: 家 ” where mothers, women, tenants and workers are invited to tell their own stories. Listen and read the stories that inspired this poster series (forthcoming):

Poster 1 Freedom: Ah Lian’s story Poster 2 Climate March Poster 3 Waiting: Ah Lian’s story Poster 4 Two Americas: Ah Lian’s story Poster 5 Essential Worker: Huang Jie’s story Poster 6 Resistance

Our Intergenerational Stories 歲月心聲: 家 was curated and led by M. Min-Chong Lin and Vida Kuang in 2019 as part of an Intergenerational Oral Storytelling and Photography Workshop Series in partnership with the Chinese for Affirmative Action and their parent leaders.

To learn about and to support the organizing of our communities, please visit:

SRO Families United Collaborative Chinese Progressive Association SF (CPA) Asians 4 Black Lives SF Anti-Displacement Coalition

To learn more about the history of Asian American organizing:

Chinatown Rising Asian Americans PBS documentary series

Acknowledgments:

Thank you for sharing your stories: Ah Lian, Ivy, Huang Jie

Thank you for sharing your photos: Ah Ai (Poster 3, inside SRO photo), Ah Yu (Poster 1, playground photo), Chinatown Community Development Center (Poster 1, shower photo), Brooke Anderson (Poster 6, images of activists), Vida Kuang (Poster 3, SRO hallway photos), Stanley Tudor (Poster 1, kitchen photo)

Thank you to my movement siblings: Laiwa Wu, Emily Lee, and Cynthia Fong

Thank you Tere Almaguer for your guidance in depicting Danza Azteca and for photograph modeling

Thank you for the translations: the San Francisco Office of Civic Engagement & Immigrant Affairs.

Thank you for the support and for making this project possible: Craig Corpora and the San Francisco Arts Commission.

Thank you for modeling for us and providing childcare, and endless support: Ben Lee, Pam Tau Lee, Calvin Cheung-Miaw

[dlocokid]

Y'all don't know!! Excited AF for tonight performing with my sisters @jennyyangtv & @atsukocomedy Tonight WE @disorientedcomedy are back together for @itscomedycomedy #ComedyComedyFest w/ a stellar ass line-up including ComedyCentral @roastbattle Funny AF Robin Tran @robintran04 & RuPaul Drag Race's incredible & magical Manila Luzon!! @manilaluzon #QueerNAsian #QueerComedy #asianamericancomics (at Japanese American Cultural & Community Center - JACCC) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bo4lWh7hpnr/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1w1pmsym7mep