WORKSHOP SESSIONS
SLOT 1: 11:15AM - 12:30PM
Maitri
Cultural Responsiveness in Domestic Violence Services
This is a classroom presentation style format where presenter will discuss unique issues faced by immigrant domestic violence survivors with real Maitri client stories and how advocates and service providers can provide culturally responsive services to help. Attendees will know how culture can impact the outcome of services. This presentation will help students to identify their own biases and how to provide culturally responsive services if in future they become a service provider or DV/SA advocate. Attendees will be encouraged to participate in the conversation to share cultural nuances from their own cultures. A discussion between the presenter and attendees will reveal new cultural information that we may need to be culturally responsive.
Zoom Link: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/91262653569?pwd=QXlSRy9CRnVIZWJpU25sQ0t5QUhSQT09
Zoom Link: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/91262653569?pwd=QXlSRy9CRnVIZWJpU25sQ0t5QUhSQT09
Council on American-Islamic Relations
Bystander Intervention Training
Join us for an interactive Bystander Intervention Training to learn how to safely intervene in the event that you witness a hate crime or bias incident. During the training, participants will learn about the history and principles of nonviolence, and will practice specific de-escalation techniques as a bystander in a variety of scenarios.
Zoom Link: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/94607844881?pwd=VktJbVJRQmxBL1NVb2VFeGlxNGtBQT09
Zoom Link: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/94607844881?pwd=VktJbVJRQmxBL1NVb2VFeGlxNGtBQT09
T.A. Tran, CUNY Graduate Center & Baruch College
Encounters at the Borders of Faith & Religion
This workshop seeks to build some humble foundations for interfaith dialogue, solidarity, and struggle. Participants will engage in several exercises asking them to reflect upon possibilities for translating their core faith/religious values into political struggle, facets of their faith tradition that might impede solidarity, and examples of religious tension/conflict versus cooperation in their personal experience or in the world. They will be invited to share their reflections with one another and collectively grapple with the possibilities and challenges of doing interfaith work and of mobilizing different faith communities into anti-capitalist, decolonial, anti-racist, and internationalist political struggle. During the discussion, I will briefly share some research-based insight on the root causes of religious conflict and what attempts towards reconciliation or interfaith collaboration has looked like around the world.
Zoom Link: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/93361424974?pwd=cnlnanFaN3hIT1BiTTRIcnlHRzJqQT09
Zoom Link: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/93361424974?pwd=cnlnanFaN3hIT1BiTTRIcnlHRzJqQT09
UCI Southeast Asian Archive
Tell me more: Strategies for Bridging Inter- Generational Silence in Refugee Communities
This workshop introduces strategies to elicit storytelling between “youth” and elders, particularly with a focus on refugee communities that have experienced traumatic displacements and loss. The workshop will center the basic principles of oral history, with a strong focus on the ethics of recording life stories for long-term preservation and public access. From introducing participants to a brief overview of how oral histories have been collected, the workshop will offer recommendations and best practices for digital audio or video recording in both in-person and remote capacities. Additionally, participants will be introduced to related documentation strategies that help build up community-centered archives for marginalized groups, such as photovoice, storytelling through recipes, and zine-making.
Workshop participants will work in groups to look at some examples of open-source digital oral history and storytelling efforts from around the United States and review the pros and cons of dissemination strategies such as exhibits, publications, and social media campaigns.
Dr. Thuy Vo Dang has over 20 years of experience conducting oral histories and designing documentation projects, including teaching methods for capturing the “bottom-up” perspectives often left out of history books. She has given numerous workshops and presentations on oral histories and community archives around the country and consults on regional and transnational community-based and scholarly projects. Her approach is grounded in community-centered archives practice, which seeks to build equitable partnerships with communities whose histories are absent from mainstream archives.
Zoom Link: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/96717098721?pwd=aGlDRk9HWkpMUTVaYjIyczE4M0hJZz09
Workshop participants will work in groups to look at some examples of open-source digital oral history and storytelling efforts from around the United States and review the pros and cons of dissemination strategies such as exhibits, publications, and social media campaigns.
Dr. Thuy Vo Dang has over 20 years of experience conducting oral histories and designing documentation projects, including teaching methods for capturing the “bottom-up” perspectives often left out of history books. She has given numerous workshops and presentations on oral histories and community archives around the country and consults on regional and transnational community-based and scholarly projects. Her approach is grounded in community-centered archives practice, which seeks to build equitable partnerships with communities whose histories are absent from mainstream archives.
Zoom Link: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/96717098721?pwd=aGlDRk9HWkpMUTVaYjIyczE4M0hJZz09
Equality Labs
The Global Struggle for Caste Abolition
Caste is India’s dirtiest secret. At birth, every child inherits his or her ancestor’s caste, which determines their social status and assigns “spiritual purity”. Those at the bottom of this system are Dalits, formerly known as the “Untouchables”. Numbering 200 million – nearly a quarter of India’s population - they are sentenced to a life of apartheid: forced into segregated schools, villages, places of worship, and subjected to violent oppression. With less than 0.1% of all Indian journalists, elected officials, and civic leaders being Dalits, their stories are rarely told and their needs rarely addressed. Casteism is not restricted to communities across South Asia, but it is transplanted into the diaspora. Very often caste discrimination manifests among South Asian Americans in the United States in work places, educational institutions and places of worship. These cases are not one-time events but an ongoing history of caste violence perpetrated by dominant caste South Asian Americans whose caste privilege goes unchecked in the US.
The Global Struggle for Caste Abolition workshop will serve as an abridged introduction to Equality Labs’ landmark Unlearning Caste Supremacy workshop series that covers the origins of caste apartheid, resistance movements against Brahminical supremacy, and caste in South Asian diasporas. Through this workshop, we will open the door to understanding caste-based discrimination and provide an introduction to the process of adding caste as a protected category. In addition, participants will learn the history of caste in the diaspora, train in identifying structures of caste privilege, and create collaborative co-learning spaces where communities can talk across caste and faith divides to start addressing caste oppression.
Zoom Link: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/92560816867?pwd=bVYyT2NXRTkwOHFWeWhibXRwNVRNZz09
The Global Struggle for Caste Abolition workshop will serve as an abridged introduction to Equality Labs’ landmark Unlearning Caste Supremacy workshop series that covers the origins of caste apartheid, resistance movements against Brahminical supremacy, and caste in South Asian diasporas. Through this workshop, we will open the door to understanding caste-based discrimination and provide an introduction to the process of adding caste as a protected category. In addition, participants will learn the history of caste in the diaspora, train in identifying structures of caste privilege, and create collaborative co-learning spaces where communities can talk across caste and faith divides to start addressing caste oppression.
Zoom Link: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/92560816867?pwd=bVYyT2NXRTkwOHFWeWhibXRwNVRNZz09
Red Canary Song
Sex Workers' Right and Anti-Trafficking
Massage businesses and massage workers are at the intersection of just about every systemic complexity in the United States. In this workshop, we will be discussing the intersection between sex workers' rights, the anti-trafficking industrial complex, and how the two interact on the ground.Throughout this workshop, we will uncover some common misconceptions around massage businesses and massage workers, how anti-Asian racism manifests on the margins, and hear from a massage worker herself about her own experiences.
Zoom Link: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/92560323214?pwd=MndnMHYyY1g0Rk9ybm1TRWZLWWxyUT09
Zoom Link: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/92560323214?pwd=MndnMHYyY1g0Rk9ybm1TRWZLWWxyUT09
New Breath Foundation
Addressing the Inequity of Philanthrophic Resources: Theory vs. Practice
Oftentimes, leaders and organizations make decisions based on theory, available data, and frameworks. However, how many of these decision makers reach out to directly impacted individuals for their input? How many of them partner closely with them?
During this workshop, we'll explore how the following areas impact our AAPI community:
- Social movements and politics contributing to the scarcity mentality
- Traditional philanthropy's role in the inequitable distribution of resources
- The model minority myth and calling in people who participate in the model minority stereotype
We'll also share New Breath Foundation's work towards transforming traditional philanthropy.
Zoom Link: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/99475370870?pwd=MlhhT3hPaS96Zm9Kd1JYVEM3WVlUZz09
During this workshop, we'll explore how the following areas impact our AAPI community:
- Social movements and politics contributing to the scarcity mentality
- Traditional philanthropy's role in the inequitable distribution of resources
- The model minority myth and calling in people who participate in the model minority stereotype
We'll also share New Breath Foundation's work towards transforming traditional philanthropy.
Zoom Link: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/99475370870?pwd=MlhhT3hPaS96Zm9Kd1JYVEM3WVlUZz09
SLOT 2: 2:45PM - 4:00PM
Coloring Cambodia
Unity through Differences: Discussing Colorism in Southeast Asia for Empowerment
Through seminar styled lecture and discussion, our workshop will be about using colorism as a means to increase visibility and acknowledge the different needs of Southeast Asians of varying race, ethnicity, and descent even within Southeast Asian nation-states. It’ll be a means to go beyond the Southeast Asian label, the various nation labels (Cambodian, Thai, Vietnamese, Filipino, etc.) to greater illustrate how positively acknowledging our differences can make communities stronger. The workshop will consist of lectures that will provide an in-depth look of colorism and its implications, and discussions that will bring the colorism framework into individual perspective. It will end by bringing all of these individual experiences together and showing how each story is indicative of inherent differences between all of us, and how our inherent differences inform different experiences, thus varying needs.
Zoom Link: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/95897848197?pwd=NnNIODNjVEVoMDZmYXZVekhSMnQwZz09
Zoom Link: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/95897848197?pwd=NnNIODNjVEVoMDZmYXZVekhSMnQwZz09
CamSA (Cambodian Student Association)
Cambodia 101
In this CamSA workshop, we seek to educate a little about the culture and history of Cambodia as well as the lives of Cambodian refugees in America and how this has translated into our current era. We hope to have individuals come away with a better understanding of the experience for all generations of Cambodia and maybe learn a couple Khmer phrases in the process!
Zoom Link: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/92142345472?pwd=aktxLzAvSGZvRkloaVVVZXBrWndlUT09
Zoom Link: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/92142345472?pwd=aktxLzAvSGZvRkloaVVVZXBrWndlUT09
API Legal Outreach Youth Advisory Council (APILO YAC)
That’s Not Love: Teen Dating Violence Workshop
Our workshop, That’s Not Love, emphasizes the power and control dynamic within domestic relationships. We define consent and dating violence, analyze toxic relationship examples in conventional media, combat myths surrounding domestic violence, examine how gender based violence affects survivors globally, and review our rights and resources in a relationship. We examine the different aspects of abuse while learning how to break the cycle of violence that has been institutionalized and normalized in our society, as well as the impact of American imperialism and capitalism on oppressive gender structures worldwide. Through collaboration, we acknowledge intersectionality within communities globally and demand large-scale awareness to help prevent domestic violence.
Zoom Link: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/97415194507?pwd=VkJWcjlVamlUZ1R6WnBhRUFHRmlmUT09
Zoom Link: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/97415194507?pwd=VkJWcjlVamlUZ1R6WnBhRUFHRmlmUT09
SLOT 3: 4:15PM - 5:30PM
SJP
Palestine 101
This workshop will work to describe the current political climate in Palestine, the history behind the genocidal state, and hopeful solutions and ways individuals can support the cause.
Zoom Link: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/94687853825?pwd=bG5SSnpxWUdvdHk1KzdFSTJXd2FNZz09
Zoom Link: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/94687853825?pwd=bG5SSnpxWUdvdHk1KzdFSTJXd2FNZz09
APIENC (API Equality - Northern California)
Trans Justice NOW! Organizing for Gender Justice in API Movements
Trans and gender-expansive Asian and Pacific Islanders have always fought for safety and liberation. While our trans ancestors have resisted colonization, combatted racism, and grown deep networks of care for generations, our needs and experiences are often overlooked in broader movements. Through this workshop, we'll uplift narratives and stories of trans and gender-expansive APIs and broader communities of color. We'll look into current organizing led by trans APIs and BIPOC communities, and explore how all of us can contribute to trans liberation and true community safety.
Zoom Link: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/99767125690?pwd=cFVoTmVIbFhYWFNOcng2QjNFazB3Zz09
Zoom Link: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/99767125690?pwd=cFVoTmVIbFhYWFNOcng2QjNFazB3Zz09
Tibetan Student Union
Tibet’s Borders: History, Geopolitics, and Diaspora Activism
In this workshop, TSU will cover the issues surrounding where Tibet’s borders lie, the history and geopolitics of Tibet’s borders, and modern Tibetan diasporic activism for Tibetan liberation. We will do a comprehensive overview of the different perspectives on Tibet’s borders, from the Chinese Government’s view to Tibetan Diaspora’s view to Western views to Indian views, etc. We will preface the workshop with a small sticky note activity asking participants what they think of when they hear Tibet and address initial questions before moving onto our slideshow presentation on the issue of Tibet’s borders. At the end of the workshop, we are planning to do a traditional Tibetan circle dance performance with live music.
Zoom Link: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/98357711910?pwd=NlF6ZXR6TC9DU09TcHNITXBDWlVZdz09
Zoom Link: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/98357711910?pwd=NlF6ZXR6TC9DU09TcHNITXBDWlVZdz09
Anakbayan Santa Cruz
Students Organizing for Liberation (SOL)
Anakbayan Santa Cruz presents "United, We Move Forward" to highlight the importance of solidarity work for people's liberation movements. The workshop names principles of international solidarity and provides how ABSC has been able to localize and practice it with UCSC student organizations. Learn about how to identify organizations to work with, build unities with them, and take action together. "United, We Move Forward" explains how our solidarity organizations have supported the National Democratic Movement in the Philippines, such as when our organization was red-tagged in March 2021.
Zoom Link: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/95015020390?pwd=akVBMWpVRVNXaEJ6VU1qRDErTHZEdz09
Zoom Link: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/95015020390?pwd=akVBMWpVRVNXaEJ6VU1qRDErTHZEdz09
Biak Tha Hlawn (Chin Leaders Tomorrow)
Burma Can't Wait
If patience is a virtue, the morally innocent people of Myanmar have persevered enough through decades-long persecution and atrocities with turned backs from international communities. The leaders of one’s country should protect its people for the country’s greater good. Instead, in Myanmar, the military junta recklessly and heartlessly threatens and kills the lives of its innocent people, who are screaming in peaceful protest for their fundamental human rights. Ever since the Tatmadaw staged a coup in Myanmar on February 1, 2021, they have deprived the freedom of the people of Myanmar through press censorship, internet shutdowns, unlawful arrests, prison torture, village massacres, militant violence to peaceful protests, ruthless killings, and so much more. How many more generations must witness and encounter the bloody crimes of the military junta. How can we, as international communities, participate in this revolution and fight for federal democracy for the people of Myanmar? Because Myanmar Can’t Wait. Not anymore.
Chin Leaders of Tomorrow (CLT) is a Chin youth-led organization that aims to cultivate and empower emerging leaders by providing opportunities, educational resources, and training to best serve underrepresented communities.
Zoom Link: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/96690583790?pwd=dEQxTVk1WThuTzgxalNoeDNCSUQxdz09
Chin Leaders of Tomorrow (CLT) is a Chin youth-led organization that aims to cultivate and empower emerging leaders by providing opportunities, educational resources, and training to best serve underrepresented communities.
Zoom Link: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/96690583790?pwd=dEQxTVk1WThuTzgxalNoeDNCSUQxdz09
Paul Tran
Form, Race, and Gender (A Moderated Reading + Q&A with Paul Tran)
This reading and Q&A will explore themes of survival, displacement, and gender & racial identity — all of which are themes that are central to Paul Tran’s debut collection, All the Flowers Kneeling, which will be released on Feb. 8, 2022. Pushcart nominee Sun Paik will moderate the event.
Zoom Link: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/96310640173?pwd=N3d3SFNLWXU1dTM4MWdGUUwxSUxEQT09
Zoom Link: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/96310640173?pwd=N3d3SFNLWXU1dTM4MWdGUUwxSUxEQT09