I believe that every woman’s soul is haunted by the spirits of earlier women who fought for their unmet needs and those of their children and their tribes and their peoples, who refused to accept the prescription of a male church and state, who took risks and resisted.

 

– Adrienne Rich

 

 

 

 

Without community this website would not have been possible. Deepest thanks to the following people for helping me with the design, content and programming of this site:

 

Atomic Kitchen Design – design

Marlon Unas Esguerra – programming & endless support

Chris Lee – shogun illustration

David Huang, Anna Kong, Jorg Loschmann, & Dance Theater Workshop – photography

 

My influences & inspirations:

My mom, dad and family!!!

Audre Lorde

Arundhati Roy

Bjork

Butoh movement

Chrystos

Denise Uyehara

Designer’s Republic

Frida Kahlo

Jessica Hagedorn

Jude Narita

M. Evelina Galang

Nam June Paik

Nobuko Miyamoto

Redmoon Theater

Reggie Cabico

Roberta Uno

Sinead O’Connor

Yoko Ono

Yuri Kochiyama

 

Some more artists

you should know about:

8th Wonder

Adriel Luis

Alexis O’Hara

All Natural

Ananya Dance Theatre

Ann Poochareon

Avery R. Young

Bamboo Girl

Bao Phi

Blue Scholars

Chath pierSath

Chris Lee

Chuck Przybyl

Dan Kwong

Denizen Kane / Typical Cats

Eclectic Kaos Group (EKG)

Ed Bok Lee

Fu-Chong Wong

Giles Li / RE:VERSE

Golda Supanova Sargento

Hoang Ly

I Was Born With Two Tongues

iLL-Literacy

In Mixed Company/Maura Nguyen Donohue

Isangmahal Arts Kollective

Janet Stickmon

John Paul Davis

Kelly Z. Tsai

Khanh Bui

Kristina Wong

Kurt Heintz

Larry Lee

Laura Kina

Mango Tribe

Marlon Esguerra

Masahiro Sugano

Michelle Alba

Prach Ly

Rex Navarette

Rich Streitmatter-Tran

Robert Karimi

Shailja Patel

Shawn Taylor

Suheir Hammad

Tanya Saracho

Teatro Luna

The Pacifics

Universes

Wandering Moon

 

 

Orgs in Chicago:

Asian American Artists Collective (Chicago)

Asian Improv Arts (Midwest)

Cambodian Association of Illinois

Cafe Teatro Batey Urbano

FAAIM’s Annual Asian American Showcase

IMAN (Inner-City Muslim Action Network)

Pintig

Polvo

Sapac (South Asian Progressive Action Collective)

Spareroom Collaborative

YAWP! Young Asians With Power

 

Across America:

Anakbayan Seattle

API Cultural Center (San Francisco)

Asian American Writer's Workshop (NYC)

Asian Arts Initiative (Philadelphia)

Bindlestiff Studio (San Francisco)

Black Lava (L.A.)

Boston Progress

CAAAV (NYC)

CAPAY (Boston)

Dance Theater Workshop (NYC)

Detroit Asian Youth (DAY) Project

Diaspora Flow (Minneapolis)

Esperanza Peace & Justice Center (San Antonio)

Hedgebrook Writing Residency for Women (Whidbey Island)

Kearny Street Workshop ( San Francisco)

Khmer Arts Academy (Long Beach)

Khmer Girls in Action (Long Beach)

Kundiman (NYC)

Locus Arts (San Francisco)

New World Theater (Amherst)

National Performance Network

Pangea World Theater (Minneapolis)

Rajana Society (Seattle)

South Asian Women's Creative Collective (NYC)

The Boggs Center (Detroit)

The Living Chapbook (Bay Area)

The Performance Project (Northhampton, MA)

The Poetic Dream (Bay Area)

Voices Breaking Boundaries (Houston)

 

International:

Amrita Performing Arts (Phnom Penh)

Blue Space Gallery (Ho Chi Minh City)

The Mekong Project

Phare (Battambang)

Reyum Institute of Arts & Culture (Phnom Penh)

Saklapel (Cambodia)

Sillipak Khmer Amatak

Sovanna Phum Arts Association (Phnom Penh)

Women Playwrights International

UCLA - Department of World Arts and Cultures

 

Alternative Media:

Alternet

Asian American Movement E-zine

Bamboo Girl

Color Lines

Critical Resistance

Davey D

Democracy Now

Diversity Inc

e-poets.net

Generation Rice

Hyphen Magazine

IndyMedia

Incite!

NPR

Refuse & Resist

Street Level Youth Media

Video Machete

Third I

Visual Communications

 

 

 

 

 

 

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