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On December 20 at 7pm, hosts Ayame and Miko Lee, the PowerLeeGirls, a mother and daughter team are Talking About Comics on APEX Express.
We feature three talented APA female artists/thinkers/activists telling stories about the Vietnamese refugee experience, Desi feminists and Filipino myths and rewriting the rules about how POC are seen in the comic world. Thi Bui, Shebani Rao and Rachelle Cruz.
Posted in Art and Culture
Posted in Art and Culture
Stay close APEXers, because tonight, we’re shedding light on what happens at night. Awooo! First up, we’re going down, to the dungeon, to speak in-studio with Domina Colette, a professional Asian dominatrix in the San Francisco Bay Area whose interests lie in BDSM and fetish exploration. Stay close…we promise you’ll like it. After that, we hear from with Kyle Chu, aka Panda Dulce, a drag queen and multidisciplinary artist who writes about race and desirability, intersectional justice and LGBTQ inclusion. We’re going all the places, talking about race, stereotypes, and the power of drag. And finally, we have a special community calendar update for you – we’re talking in studio with MC Canalas, Cultural Specialist at the Filipino American Development Foundation, to learn more about the Parol Lantern Festival.
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Come November, the 16th edition of 3rd i’s San Francisco International South Asian Film Festival begins in full swing from Nov 1st to 4th in San Francisco and Nov 17th in Palo Alto. This year’s line up features women centric and films by women from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Canada, Australia, and the USA.
This year’s films range from homelessness and domestic violence, to comic book and real-life superheroes. Documentaries abound featuring sex-positive advice columnists and probing filmmakers who battle the rising tide of fundamentalism in both India and Pakistan. This year, the festival also explore the theme of healing, and the importance of dialogue – sometimes even with the enemy. As always local filmmakers shine bright. Listen to APEX Express’ first of 2 parts of our 3rdi spotlight. Preeti Mangala Shekar sits down in conversation with two local film makers Rucha Chitnis and Harleen Singh, whose short films debut at this year’s festival. These two films screen on Friday, Nov 3rd at the New People Cinema, San Francisco.
For tickets and other films’ information, visit: http://www.thirdi.org
Watch the trailer of Rucha Chitnis’ film: In the Land of my Ancestors:
Watchthe trailer of Harleen Singh’s film, Drawn Together:
Posted in Art and Culture, Feminism, human rights, Indigenous Rights, Racism
On Apex Express, PowerLeeGirls, Jalena Keane-Lee and Miko Lee talk with Artists featured in the 17th annual APAture festival including filmmaker Evelyn Obamos, Hip Hop artist Ruby Ibarra, showcase performing artists: Jyun Jyun and MissTANGQ, and Animator, Grace Villaroman. All that and more, so keep it locked on APEX Express.
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On this month’s South Asian spotlight, we celebrate India’s Supreme Court’s historic decision striking down Section 377, an archaic Colonial law that criminalized homosexuality. We talk to a feisty Desi lesbian couple Priti and Mads about their new ice cream business, a venture that has helped them dream and live outside the box in many ways!
We also hear from Thanu Yakupitiyage from 350.org, about the ongoing climate actions in resistance to Governor Brown’s Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco, and why climate change is also a South Asian issue; and the piece de resistance: a sneak peek into a brand new storytelling podcast by APEX Express’ Preeti Mangala Shekar!
Tune in to a special green edition of APEX Express, featuring a film from the San Francisco Green Film Festival, a film on whaling, and spotlighting the upcoming Solidarity to Solutions Week happening September 8 to 14.
We interview Soumyaa Kapil Behrens about her new film Nail House and Megumi Sasaki about her film Whale of a Tale. We also talk to Thuy Trang about the Asian contingent at the upcoming Solidarity to Solutions week, and the march on Sep 8!
Tonight’s show is about reflections and reportbacks! Today’s show is a reportback special from two key events that took place this summer: the National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Allianceconference held in San Francisco last month, and Bay Area Solidarity Summer. We debrief about this rich forum in conversation with organizer Tracy Nguyen API Equality – Northern California, one of the local organizations that organized this edition of NQAPIA and Khudai Tanveer. To discuss their reflections on Bay Area Solidarity Summer, we have Sathvik Nair and Shreedha N. Hordagoda discuss their experiences of this South Asian youth activist camp
Posted in Art and Culture, human rights, Sexuality
Tonight Powerleegirls Miko Lee & Ayame Keane-Lee present Asian American’s Advancing Justice Reflections on the 1968 SFSU Strikes, a look back at the seminal student movement at San Francisco State University that not only led the creation of ethnic studies programs across the country and the modern Asian American identity as we know it, but even shaped the formation of Advancing Justice — Asian Law Caucus. A panel discussion moderated by Paul Ocampowith Juanita Tamayo Lott, Penny Nakatsu, and Laureen Chew, three leaders of the 1968 strikes who were instrumental in the movement’s success.
We also feature music by Malaysian 4 Languages “Wake Up!” selected by Sonny Lê.
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