API Underground - Kansas City

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Hi Family! It brings me so much joy to resume IG Lives with folks who are doing the important work of breaking stigmas and transforming frameworks within mental health in the Asian community. Next week, we dig deep and talk about religious trauma in Asian communities. It sometimes feels like a taboo topic that no one wants to discuss. So let’s break it wide open and talk about what it is, how it affects our mental and spiritual health and explore how we might begin the work to heal from our religious trauma. I will be joined by psychologist, Dr. Sarah Hye Lim Moon, @thequeerkoreanpsychologist as we talk openly and honestly about how our spiritual communities can do harm and how they can do better. Join us Monday, August 30th at 11:30CST, 9:30PDT, and 12:30EST (hopefully I got the time zones right this time 😂). All IG Live conversations will be saved and recorded on the videos tab! Take care of yourselves out there friends. ❤️

Seating will be finalized by noon on Thursday, so claim your spot and join API Underground and Tradewind Arts in supporting artistic representation on stage for the youngest AAPIs!

UMKC student Hieu Bui takes the stage in Coterie Theatre's outdoor production of Dragons Love Tacos and we'll be there to cheer along! Limited discounted seating available through Thursday with additional subsidy through Tradewind Arts!

Did you know that Japanese Americans weren’t the only people who were imprisoned by the US government during World War II?

Because of Japan’s show of force in the then-territory of Alaska, nearly 900 Aleuts were rounded up from the Pribilof Islands and Aleutian Chain, transported 2000 miles near Juneau (some even farther), and dumped into abandoned canneries and fisheries that lacked heat, water, and sewage systems. These interned indigenous peoples were held for three years, but it took over forty years before this country even acknowledged what had been done to Aleuts. By then, over half of those who were interned had already died.

As we enter the final week of AAPI Heritage Month, let’s remember that AAPI history is complicated and always intertwined with other BIPOC communities. Let’s demand rigor and high standards for learning—for ourselves and others. If we remain self-centered and unaware of the fullness of our histories, or believe that our personal experiences alone are enough to make us racial justice “experts”, we end up harming everyone in the Movement.

Haunted by World War II internment Joaqlin EstusIndian Country Today The Alaska Legislature unanimously voted on Monday to help protect an Unangax, or Aleut, cemetery in Southeast Alaska. The

Happy birthday to Yuri Kochiyama. What a legacy she left for us!

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SONG FOR AN ASIAN AMERICAN RADICAL: YURI KOCHIYAMA
By David Mura

I open the door

and there she stands hectoring me

about Malcolm X.
Says impatiently there’s no time

for sumiye or sake,
exigencies of meter, rhyme.

She’s so tiny, I’m so
unknowing, the fractions enormous,

all those years of fires
in Philly, Detroit, Oakland, Harlem, Watts.

Behind her the night
stalks its stars beyond history

and I know if I shut
this door each time she vanishes farther

till nothing remains
but silence and sleep.

Reader you may think
in the end I’ll let her in. Don’t

count on it. That’s
why she keeps knocking

night after night.

Check out the mention we got in The Kansas City Star!

Great things are happening, folks—thanks for being here to support all of it!

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“In April, community activist PaKou Her co-founded API Underground, the mission being to build kinship among the Asian American community in Kansas City and provide opportunities to get involved in grassroots initiatives.. The organization is still assessing the community’s needs, but is considering ways to expand bias reporting as well as education about the Asian American culture that goes beyond food, delving deeper into issues around race and identity.. ‘We’re not here to have some kind of liberatory experience just for Asian Americans,’ Her said. ‘We know that if we’re going to have a radical, revolutionary anti-racist experience, then we need to be fighting for that for everybody else as well, and that is a core value for us.’”

Stop Asian Hate leans into legacy of civil rights to spark movement, dismantle racism “Until we get justice for everybody, an injustice to anybody is a threat to justice for all.”

Come hang out with us tomorrow at Cafe Cà Phê!

Members of API Underground will be tabling and talking to folks about our new group and some of the things we want to do to support and strengthen KC’s API community. We’ll be there from 10:00-2:00 with stickers and information about how to join us.

*AND* you can grab great Vietnamese coffee and support a bunch of awesome foodies and local makers at the same time. It’s a win-win!

Get to know the diverse, dynamic, and talented AAPI community, including up-and-coming talent that's been nominated by some of the most influential AAPIs across the country.

Who is Making Asian American Pacific Islander History in 2021: The GMA Inspiration List Who is Making Asian American Pacific Islander History in 2021: The GMA Inspiration ListMalala Yousafzai and more nominate those who are making history in our world.ByGood Morning AmericaviaMay 10, 2021, 9:02 AM• 296 min readShare to FacebookShare to TwitterEmail this articleABC News Photo Illustra...