Events Calendar

Events in August 2021

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Hiroshima/Nagasaki Remembrance

6:00 PM – 7:00 PM

Hiroshima/Nagasaki Remembrance

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Ikoi No Kai scheduled to open with safety precautions

Ikoi No Kai scheduled to open with safety precautions

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Nikkei Community Picnic (TBD)

Nikkei Community Picnic (TBD)

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July 26th marked the 31st anniversary of the Ameri

July 26th marked the 31st anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)! This important civil rights law works to ensure all people with disabilities have the same rights and opportunities as everyone else.

To celebrate, we are honoring Asian American disability justice activists this week.

Lydia X. Z. Brown is an advocate, organizer, educator, attorney, strategist, and writer. For over a decade, they have worked to address and end interpersonal and state violence targeting disabled people, especially disabled people at the margins of the margins, in their own homes and communities, in movement spaces, in schools, in disability-specific institutions, and in jails and prisons. Their work begins at and centers intersections of disability, queerness, race, gender, class, and nation and migration.

You can find some of their writings on their disability/autism blog at www.autistichoya.com

#ADA31 #ThanksToTheADA

July 26th marked the 31st anniversary of the Ameri

July 26th marked the 31st anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)! This important civil rights law works to ensure all people with disabilities have the same rights and opportunities as everyone else.

To celebrate, we are honoring Asian American disability justice activists this week.

Mia Mingus is a writer, public speaker, community educator and organizer working for disability justice and transformative justice responses to child sexual abuse. She is a queer physically disabled Korean woman transracial and transnational adoptee. She works for community, interdependency and home for all of us, not just some of us, and longs for a world where disabled children can live free of violence, with dignity and love.

Her writings can be found on her blog, Leaving Evidence.

#ADA31 #ThanksToTheADA

Today marks the 31st anniversary of the Americans

Today marks the 31st anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)! This important civil rights law works to ensure all people with disabilities have the same rights and opportunities as everyone else.

To celebrate, we will be honoring Asian American disability justice activists this week.

Alice Wong (she/her) is a disabled activist, writer, media maker, and consultant. She is the founder and director of the Disability Visibility Project, an online community dedicated to creating, sharing, and amplifying disability media and culture created in 2014. She is also co-partner of #CripTheVote, a nonpartisan online movement encouraging the political participation of people with disabilities.

#ADA31 #ThanksToTheADA

With summer winding down, we wanted to share some

With summer winding down, we wanted to share some books you might enjoy while soaking up the remainder of the sun. We asked several of our board members what they’ve been reading these days. Here are some of the titles we haven’t been able to put down!

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