Virtual Network Gathering at AMC 2020!

Update - 7/10/20: We are offering two open and public events! See below.

Update - 4/15/20: Our call for participation is now closed.

Update - 4/1/20: AMC 2020 will be going virtual. We’re still receiving more information and updates on how we’ll adapt our network gathering for a virtual convening. We’re still committed to building a community together and will share more details soon on how we’ll be adapting the structure of our event.

We see Asian American feminism as both a political and identity home. Like a home, it requires care for both the space and also the people who live within. By bringing together our lived experiences, memories, and collective histories, we aim to confront the multi-dimensional ways we encounter systems of power and structures of harm in order to create pathways towards liberation and justice. Come dream, create, and build with us towards moving and acting in solidarity within and across our communities. 

Our network gathering welcomes all who identify as Asian American, including people whose backgrounds encompass East, Southeast, West Asian and South Asian, multi-ethnic, and diasporic Asian identities. Participants with perspectives often marginalized in Asian American communities are especially encouraged to apply: youth, queer and trans people, formerly incarcerated people, people from rural communities, undocumented people, refugees, multiracial people, and people with disabilities.

We use Asian American feminism as a mode of knowledge and practice. The work of white supremacy and settler colonialism over centuries has attempted to make it harder for our communities to come together and fight back.  As we re-envision our place in and contributions to social justice movements, we must be open to rejecting the settler state as our site of liberation, while centering Black liberation and Indigenous futurity. In organizing for the survival of Black and Indigenous lives, we also organize for our own survival. 

Together, we will share strategies and practices around building meaningful and critical solidarities between Asian American diasporas as well as with other communities of color and Indigenous communities that speak to different intersections of histories & experiences. Participants will build community with one another, discuss models for future collaboration, and learn ways to materialize our political visions through skill-shares with community organizers and artists, facilitated storytelling workshops, and hands-on activities. 

We aim to create an intentional space committed to equity and justice. This means we’re working to keep participants safe during potentially challenging conversations, as well as fundraising to help participants with travel costs.

This network gathering is coordinated by 18 Million Rising and the Asian American Feminist Collective.