As part of my role at APIAVote, I have guest written some blog posts at AAPI Data’s blog, Data Bits.
- #GiveInMay Spotlight: Alliance of Rhode Island Southeast Asians for Education (ARISE)
- #GiveInMay Spotlight: Filipino Advocates for Justice
Everyday Second Languages is a collaborative project happened when a few friends got together, started complaining about the awkward, messy, sometimes politicized interactions in our daily lives, and then wrote about it.
As co-editor, I run and edit all work & contribute regular essays on aspects of Asian American identity. Some of my highlights are:
The Art of Dance and Displacement in the Bay Area
“Given all of this, this event borders on mockery of the historic landscape of the roots of urban dance, displacement, and persecution of black and brown communities in the Bay.”
When a company hosts a dance showcase as virtually a networking session for techies, it’s so dishonest to the spirit of the Bay Area dance community that at first, I didn’t know where to start.
This was a difficult piece to write because it captures a lot of the last four years of being in the Bay Area as a dancer & as a technologist. With everything else that’s happening right now, why spend my time talking about the exclusion of the dance community?
But it matters because urban dance introduced me to so much more of the Bay Area, and was the first to push me outside my comfort zone of a Silicon Valley/Stanford bubble — and you first notice community exclusion on the smallest scales.
“Threads repeated in different places, different names, different years — these are the stories in which I’m finding home.”
A piece reflecting on how my time working as a national policy intern at SEARAC helped shape my identity as a Vietnamese American.
Christine Phan 