TAPAS Events for the Year 2020


Let Them Work Action Hour!
Dec
13

Let Them Work Action Hour!

This was an action hour in support of Harvard workers and contractors that were threatened to be fired during the height of the pandemic, as well as immigrants whose work permits were threatened with confiscation by the Trump administration.

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#ShutDownAFRICOM: Resist US Colonization of Africa
Nov
19

#ShutDownAFRICOM: Resist US Colonization of Africa

The purpose of AFRICOM is to use U.S. military power to impose U.S. control of African land, resources and labor to service the needs of U.S. multi-national corporations and the wealthy in the United States. This is a teach-in in solidarity with the Black Alliance for Peace, hosted by the Eritrean and Ethiopian Students Association (EESA) and the Nigerian Students Association (NSA), with support from The Task Force for Asian American Progressive Advocacy and Studies.

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Imperialism and Jennifer Laude
Oct
1

Imperialism and Jennifer Laude

An open-forum panel discussion featuring Queer theorist and Fulbright scholar Zachary Frial, UC Riverside Sociology Professor Victoria Reyes, and PJ Raval, the director of Call Her Ganda for a discussion of both the Laude case itself and its historical, cultural, and political resonances.

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Call Her Ganda Screening: How One Life Galvanized a Nation
Sep
26

Call Her Ganda Screening: How One Life Galvanized a Nation

In this event, we watched Call Her Ganda, a documentary following an activist attorney (Virgie Suarez), a transgender journalist (Meredith Talusan) and Jennifer’s mother (Julita “Nanay” Laude) in their quest to galvanize a political uprising, pursue justice and take on hardened histories of US imperialism.

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A Conversation with Jeff Yang
Aug
30

A Conversation with Jeff Yang

Join TAPAS for a conversation with noted Asian American journalist Jeff Yang. Jeff Yang is a featured contributor for CNN, a columnist for the South China Morning Post's Inkstone magazine, and can be regularly heard both on NPR and on his podcast, They Call Us Bruce.

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AAPI Activism & Int'l Solidarity
Jul
17

AAPI Activism & Int'l Solidarity

TAPAS and Ruodi Duan presented on how, from waging the Vietnam anti-war movement to standing in solidarity with BLM, AAPI political identity is and has been shaped by a solidarity with a diversity of struggles from around the world.

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8 To Abolition Action Hour
Jul
8

8 To Abolition Action Hour

This was an hour of direct action, along with a brief presentation and discussion, on Black Lives Matter solidarity and prison and police abolition.

Read our action hour guide at https://tiny.cc/TAPAS8GUIDE

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The Half of It Watch Party
May
1

The Half of It Watch Party

A casual netflix watch party for the release of The Half of It, followed by a zoom discussion / hangout!!!

movie synopsis: "A shy, introverted, Chinese-American, straight-A student finds herself helping the school jock woo the girl they both secretly love. In the process, each teaches the other about the nature of love as they find connection in the most unlikely of places."
(by the director of saving face, another great queer as am movie :,) )

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Asian American Resistance & Creative Clapbacks
Apr
27

Asian American Resistance & Creative Clapbacks

Our panelists Frances Kai-Hwa Wang & Wen-Hao Tien discussed how the history of Asian Americans is one of resistance and art. We will look at moments of racial violence — like the Chinese Exclusion Act, post-9/11 discrimination, and the time of COVID-19 — and the ways Asian Americans have responded creatively to clap back. We also discussed what you can do to help the community during this time.

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AAA presents: APIDA Decade Roundup
Feb
22

AAA presents: APIDA Decade Roundup

At the decade’s end, the Harvard-Radcliffe Asian American Association, Harvard TAPAS, Harvard Asian American Womxn's Association, and Harvard-Radcliffe Chinese Students Association met to look back toward the paved historic milestones in APIDA politics, culture, and social influence, as well as celebrate and collaborate over ways to build upon this momentum in 2020.

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