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    • introducing the group behind apia futures
      • pair intros [pt.i]
      • pair intros [pt.ii]
      • pair intros [pt.iii]
    • week 5: show & tell (anna) – reframing the american history course
    • week 6: current issues, institutionalization of asam studies & identity formation
    • week 8: when ashley made dinner
    • week 8 & 9: apia materials assessment & action worksheet
    • week 10: pedagogies for social justice
      • what do we do with the university?
      • Ashley’s Flashpoints Notes
      • Elisa’s Teaching to Transgress Notes
      • pearl’s cultivating genius notes
      • a freedom schooling padlet
    • week 11 recap: field trip to AAI + other fun times
    • week 12: the wrc
      • week 12: zine-making!
      • week 12: mapping activity
    • week 13: reflections
      • reflections pt.i
      • reflections pt.ii
      • reflections pt.iii
      • reflections pt. iv
      • Reflections pt. v
    • workshop flyer & email to ORAA
      • ORAA x APIA Futures Workshop Playlist
      • workshop slides
    • ORAA Collab Workshop Recap
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Post-its of drawings members of the course did of each other are placed together like a mini collage. From left to right, top to bottom, the images are of: someone with long hair smiling, a diamond, an ocean accompanied by fluffy clouds and seagulls, a ghost that is saying, "Huh? Nooooo," someone with hoop earrings, a buzzcut, and glasses smiling, someone with a hair bun looking to the left, someone's long hair, someone with a ponytail and glasses, a cup with liquid and a straw inside, someone with a mustache, and someone with a high top bun looking downwards.
Screenshot of google doc image says: "to our friends and accomplices, Hello there! We are a group of students creating and learning together in a student-led course, APIA Studies and Education, birthed with the support of Edwin Mayorga, Jenn Phuong, and all the other teachers, mentors, and friends who’ve inspired us to create this space. This course serves as an exploration beyond ahistoricized institutional structures of learning. We ask questions like: What is the significance of a student-led course and what kinds of implications does this have on the history and future of ethnic studies and social justice? What is the point of Asian American studies? What does it mean to decenter the university as APIA students and educators? What kinds of spaces and pedagogies foster critical consciousness and radical community? What is APIA joy? At the intersection of APIA identity, activism, dreams for educational and social justice and change, we engage and challenge one another to imagine something more. Why did we start this blog? We started this blog as an exercise in communal memory––as opposed to institutional memory. We share our process, experiences, and discoveries with the larger community in hopes of fostering conversations that continue beyond the classroom, the semester, the degree, and other arbitrary markers of our lifelong schooling. We record our stumbles and our successes so that those who come after us may critique, borrow from, and build on what we’ve done. We reject institutional gatekeeping of knowledge and challenge the traditional power hierarchies of the classroom and university. Above all, this blog is an informal space for us to reflect on our messy attempts at figuring out what it means to learn from, care for, and respond to each other."
Screenshot of google doc says, "What does “APIA futures” mean to us? We’re still thinking about what “APIA futures” mean to us, and we hope that you’ll join us in asking these questions: What does joy look like, in and out of the classroom? What does a liberatory pedagogy look like? How do we imagine and create APIA futures that expand far beyond the oppressive systems that confine our education and our lives? What does it mean to dream of something better? in community, everyone <3"
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