Our conference is split into 3 workshop sessions. You may choose to attend 1 workshop per session, making 3 total.
“We Are Not Put On This Earth As Someone, But to Become Someone”: Korean Adoptee Culture- and Community-Making
Kira Donnell, UC Berkeley and San Francisco State University
This session will begin by tracing the sixty-year history of Korean transnational adoption. From there, we will explore how adult Korean adoptees are resisting imposed narratives orphanhood and rescue and articulating a collective Korean adoptee identity and community through cultural productions.
selfcare4womenofcolor
Summer Ko, UC Irvine alumnus
**A space inspired by and rooted in the works of Sara Ahmed, Audre Lorde, Rupi Kaur, Beyonce, Janet Mock, and many others.**
As a great woman of color once said, "But to live doesn't mean you're alive." Through the works of those in the women of color communities, we'll be diving into what self care means for women of color. We'll be encompassing the cross sections of mental and physical wellness, race, sexuality, gender, class, and everything that encompasses what make women of color wonderfully and beautifully complex human beings.
...And then we'll be having a party to celebrate ourselves, because women of color are rarely celebrated. #DeserveBetter
As a great woman of color once said, "But to live doesn't mean you're alive." Through the works of those in the women of color communities, we'll be diving into what self care means for women of color. We'll be encompassing the cross sections of mental and physical wellness, race, sexuality, gender, class, and everything that encompasses what make women of color wonderfully and beautifully complex human beings.
...And then we'll be having a party to celebrate ourselves, because women of color are rarely celebrated. #DeserveBetter
the battlefront, orange county, ca
Joseph Silvia, Unite Here Local 11
What to do when you are a student organizer and activist after college? WE ORGANIZE BEYOND BARRIERS. We will host a diverse panel of hotel workers, labor organizers and leaders in the labor movement to discuss how we are changing the hospitality/service industry in the O.C. and L.A. through intersectionality.
What to do when you are a student organizer and activist after college? WE ORGANIZE BEYOND BARRIERS. We will host a diverse panel of hotel workers, labor organizers and leaders in the labor movement to discuss how we are changing the hospitality/service industry in the O.C. and L.A. through intersectionality.
INTERSECTING IDENTITIES
Eren Hurtado, UC Riverside
Folx can use this space to share their experiences with the multiple identities that they may carry; mixed race, LGBTQ, disability, mental illness, citizenship and however else folx identify.
Folx can use this space to share their experiences with the multiple identities that they may carry; mixed race, LGBTQ, disability, mental illness, citizenship and however else folx identify.
Sharing our Histories: Visual Art as Storytelling
Trinh Mai, Artist-in-Residence for UCI's Vietnamese American Oral History Project (VAOHP)
This presentation shares how my art practice has aided me in the excavation of my roots as a second generation Vietnamese American, how visual art has served as a channel through which memories are shared, how it continues to raise important questions during this search, and how it helps pass on this history.
HIV Stigma in the API community
Johann Ortizo, Asian Pacific AIDS Intervention Team
To elucidate a better understanding of HIV/AIDS as it affects Asian & Pacific Islander Americans and how stigma, social/ cultural norms, and a lack of access to culturally appropriate services present barriers in curbing HIV/AIDS in the API community. Also, how APAIT (Asian Pacific Islander AIDS Intervention Team) confronts these barriers and empower API individuals