3/4:(IN)VISIBLY AMERICAN:THE PERSONAL IS POLITICAL IN QUEER IMMIGRANTS RIGHTS
PRESS ADVISORY: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Ben de Guzman, NQAPIA
Phone: 202-422-4909
E-mail: ben_deguzman@nqapia.org
The National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance (NQAPIA)
Barangay-NY
Gay Asian & Pacific Islander Men of New York (GAPIMNY)
Q-WAVE – Queer API Women and Trans. Achieving Visibility & Empowerment
South Asian Lesbian and Gay Association (SALGA)
Present:
(IN)VISIBLY AMERICAN:
THE PERSONAL IS POLITICAL IN QUEER IMMIGRANTS RIGHTS
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- WHAT: We invite you to be part of a unique discussion on queer immigrants’ rights. A panel of experts will provide current updates on the debates around comprehensive immigration reform and their impact at the local and national levels. Members of our community whose lives have been affected by immigration inequality will also share their stories with us. Free!
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- WHO: Speakers Include:
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- Rev. Noel Bordador
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- Un Jung Lim
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- Hon. Daniel Dromm, Chair of NYC Council’s Immigration Committee
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- Ben de Guzman, NQAPIA
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- Miriam Yeung, National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum
- WHEN: Thursday, March 4, 2010
- Reception and Networking: 6:30 PM (light refreshments)
- Program: 7:00 – 9:00 PM
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- WHERE: Asian American Writers Workshop
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- 16 West 32nd Street,
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- Suite 10A
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- (Between 5th Ave. and Broadway)
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- New York, NY 10001
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- Phone: 212-494-0061
HOW: Co-sponsored by (list still in formation- contact us for more information):
Anti-Violence Project
Asian Pacific Islander Coalition on HIV/AIDS
Asian American Writer’s Workshop
Audre Lorde Project
Center for Community Change
Immigration Equality
Make the Road New York
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
OCA-NY
Queer Asian Spirit
Queers for Economic Justice
South Asian Americans Leading Together
Stonewall Democratic Club of NYC
Act Queer Teleconference: Queer Immigration & Immigrant Organizing
The purpose of Act Queer! is to connect grassroots LGBTQ racial and economic justice organizations with national queer and/or allied coalitions and organizations to share information and strategies on racial and economic justice research, organizing and advocacy.
Our July 30, 2009 teleconference focused on queer organizing and advocacy on immigration issues, or issues impacting queer immigrants.
To hear the each presenter, press play on the audio player. Read materials from each presenter just below the audio player.
Yasmin Nair, Gender JUST. (Chicago, IL.) Discusses the national immigration policy landscape, and the impact of the “families” and “partner” reunification frame for queer immigrants.
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Nancy Ordover, Researcher/Scholar, Author of American Eugenics, Race, Queer Anatomy and the Science of Nationalism. (New York, NY) Discusses the US ban on HIV-positive immigrants: It’s history and where the current policy stands.
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Materials from Ordover
Priscilla Hale, allgo:a statewide queer people of color organization. (Austin, TX). Discusses the coalition work allgo did in the state of Texas: framing the black/brown conflict in immigration advocacy, and working in coalition with straight-idenitified ally organizations.
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Glenn Magpantay, National Queer Asian/Pacific Islander Alliance (NY/DC/Seattle). Discusses NQAPIA’s queer immigration principles, and the economic/class diversity of API immigrants.
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Materials from NQAPIA:
NQAPIA Principles on LGBT Immigrant Rights
Lisbeth Melendez Rivera, Unid@s:The National Latina/o Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender (LGBT) Human Rights Organization (Washington, DC). Discusses the work to build Unid@s and their advocacy work.
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Additional Materials from Jordan T. Garcia, Immigrant Ally Organizing Director, AFSC/Denver, CO.
Queer Immigration Reading List
What’s Immigration Got To Do with Queer Liberation?