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"Queer API History: Why It's Vitally Relevant for Today's Struggle for Social Justices in the United States and Beyond."
From "Farewell My Concubine"
Few people -- even in the LGBTQ/queer Asian/Pacific Islander (API) community -- know the long history of people in the Asia/Pacific region who anticipate contemporary LGBTQ identities. This history should be of far more than academic interest and of interest far beyond the queer API community. It goes to the heart of the strategy that LGBTQ communities of color and human rights activists can and should use in challenging homophobic and transphobic reactionaries both in the United States and in the Asia/Pacific region.
On this program, transgender activist Pauline Park will engage in a conversation with Out-FM about this fascinating hidden history and how it can be used to illuminate contemporary debates and inspire effective action to advance a progressive agenda of social justice and social change. For more on trans history, go to Pauline's website.
Pauline Park at Philidelphia Pride 2009
Murder of Sakia Gunn Commemoration By Newark NJ LGBTQ Center
Naomi Brussel interviews Denise Hinds, President, and Beatrice Simpkins, Executive Director, of the Newark LGBTQ Center about the commemoration of the 2003 murder of 15-year-old lesbian Sakia Gunn, planned for October 28th, 2023. They talk about the impact of this killing on the Newark queer community then and now.
The “Sakia, Sakia, Sakia, Sakia” mural along the McCarter Highway was painted by Tatyana Fazlalizadeh in memory of Sakia Gunn in 2016 as a part of the Newark downtown district’s Gateways to Newark initiative, “Portraits.”
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