#aapi history

[whenweallvote]

Happy heavenly birthday to Rep. Patsy Mink (1927-2002) of Hawaii! 🎉 Today, we celebrate her glass-breaking legacy as the first woman of color elected to the U.S. House of Representatives and the first Asian American woman to serve in Congress in 1965. 

Rep. Mink helped shape landmark legislation like Title IX — later renamed the Patsy T. Mink Equal Opportunity in Education Act — which prohibits gender discrimination in federally-funded school and sports programs. 

60 years after her election, there are currently 22 AAPI Members of Congress. Thank you for paving the way, Rep. Mink. 🙌🏽

[obliviani]

happy api month!

annual heritage piece 🏵️

[calixcasual]

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfV-OnQuT71lBU_3oPjuIxY_FdVc77wklv3dF3_sDP3dBTyfA/viewform

[redsugarx]

Year of the Snake Display @ Fremont Main Library

im late as hell but made a quick trip back home to set this display case up last week at Fremont Main Library in Fremont, CA (same place that the previous event was held) for AAPI Heritage Month!

[melliotwrites]

Ghost Story: a new musical is up on YouTube!

Two love stories between Chinese American and Polish American men haunt the same Montana ranch house — one century apart. As past and present intertwine, the lovers confront long-held fears in their quest to determine if they love one another for the right reasons.

GHOST STORY is a new musical exploring queer interethnic intimacies between working-class immigrants in the early Mountain West, as well as the complicated racial past of modern gay relationships. Through a story about love, culture, and identity, the show asks: In making meaning from the overwhelming tragedies of queer history, how do we balance seeking truth and beauty?

This presentation includes mature language and some mature themes. Stream our live cast album here on Spotify (and look up Ghost Story Melliot on other streaming services to find it!)

[uwmarchives]

To celebrate Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, the UW-Milwaukee is showcasing the Desi Wisconsin oral history collection. During the 1950s to the 1970s, the Indian population of the city of Milwaukee grew from a few families to a community of hundreds. In a city of primarily white and black residents, these immigrants learned to navigate and raise families in a culture that was fundamentally different to the one they had left behind. Covering themes of religion, identity, family, and immigration, these interviews give insight into the experiences of the South Asian immigrants who made Milwaukee their home. 

[californiastatelibrary]

On display on the third floor of the Library and Courts building, a tapestry depicting the history of the Hmong people as they fled from China in ca. 1200 up to their arrival in the 1980s at Los Angeles International Airport. The artist of this 1980 tapestry is unknown.

[watchertvzine]

Announcing the next artist for our 2024 Watcher TV Zine - Hillary!

Follow this artist on: Instagram | Twix

Creator Interest Form is open until July 31st if you'd like to join the zine project!

[whenweallvote]

This AAPI Heritage Month, we’re celebrating the rise in AAPI voting power! The Asian American and Pacific Islander community is the fastest growing voting bloc in the U.S., accounting for about 15 million eligible voters in 2024. 🙌🏽

Join us and APIAVote in uplifting the power of AAPI voters! Register to vote NOW at weall.vote/register, and ask three friends to do the same.

[yerawitchbitch]

This is the news release from the Department of Defense stopping official activities for "identity months." including

National African American/Black History Month (February)

Women’s History Month (March)

Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month (May)

Pride Month (June)

National Hispanic Heritage Month(Sept. 15 - Oct. 15)

National Disability Employment Awareness Month (October)

National American Indian Heritage Month (November)

Guess I know what identity months I'll be making sure to celebrate. 😆

https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/4050331/identity-months-dead-at-dod/

[theoffingmag]

History can die, and disassemble, and decompose, and regrow, and rebuild, and rebecome. History exists simply because it once was—even without proof, without memory, without ruins.

Kyla-Yến Huỳnh Giffin, "Ngoại and the Coral Reef"

[jomtones-bussy]

Grandma gave me all this cool stuff

WE'RE NOT EVEN CHINESE WE'RE FUCKING KOREAN

Someone else Korean, pls help me connect with my culture I beg

[agmagazinescans]

Paper Doll: Christy Nock

American Girl Magazine, March/April 1996

[Ko-Fi Donations]

[uwmarchives]

Desi WI Oral History Profile: Dr. Sanath Gandhi

Dr. Sanath Gandhi grew up in India and came to Milwaukee (and the United States) on an immigrant visa to be an instructor and anesthesiologist at the Marquette School of Medicine (now the Medical College of Wisconsin). Previously, he had lived and worked in the United Kingdom.  

“The Milwaukee Department of Medical College had an advertisement in Landsat for several positions in anesthesia in CS magazine, so I applied, and I got the job. I had no idea that Milwaukee is going to be so very cold. If I had known, probably I might have selected some other place. But I was going to America. I had no idea that America can be, weather can be from frozen tundra to tropical. And I ended up in Milwaukee. And you know how the place usually grows on you with time. And I was very happy, I never moved from Milwaukee.” 

“I went to apply for my driver’s license. And then there were only two categories: W and B. W for White and B for Black, and there was no other category. So in application, I wrote down ‘Indian’. So they say, “You are not Indian, that is American Indian”. I said “yeah, I know. But what do I write here?” They say, “It’s either black or white”. So she marked down white because I was not black. And so they gave me a test (this was when you apply for a preliminary license), and he’s writing down and says, “you are not white”. I said, “I know, but I’m not black either. What do I write there?” He said, “I don’t know”. So that was one of those things where there’s not enough categories for immigrants.” 

“Of course, I consider myself an American because I have been here almost 45 years or 50 years. And at the same time, I have a nostalgic view of India and the Indian things, so I still read the newspapers every day. I also read American newspapers every day. And I keep up with the things. I like to help out because India did provide me all the things, the education and everything. The only thing that I can do as a doctor is that we can go and have some medical missions in India...we go, and every year since 2015...we try to run a free clinic in America too.”