Posted on 09-11-2017 in Dragon Fruit ProjectSource: Lavender Phoenix
Daily Acts of Resistance – A NEW Dragon Fruit Project Zine!
Image description: A preview of the center page of the 3rd Dragon Fruit Project Zine. Background graphic is orange with overlayed text and graphics such as “What keeps us alive?”
This summer saw the release of the 3rd Dragon Fruit Project (DFP) Zine! For those unfamiliar, a zine, shortened from fanzine or magazine, is a self-published work often featuring original texts and images
Posted on 07-06-2017 in Dragon Fruit ProjectSource: Lavender Phoenix
[Image Description: A flyer advertising the DFP Zine. The background is white, with accents of a Dragon Fruit pattern on the corners.]
Do you fancy art? Are you an artist? We need your help to make our 3rd Dragon Fruit Project Zine happen!
Hello APIENC Community! My name is Ralph and I am an APIENC summer intern. I will be helping with the Dragon Fruit Project, ensuring that the hxstories of our community are accessible. One way I’m doing
Posted on 11-09-2016 in Dragon Fruit ProjectSource: Lavender Phoenix
Image Description: Two APIENC community members browsing the Dragon Fruit Project Digital Portal on a Google Chromebook; a historical timeline of LGBTQ API movements is in the background; taken at the 10/23 Digital Portal Launch Party (photo credits: Mary Luong)
The Dragon Fruit Project is an intergenerational oral hxstory project that explores queer Asians and Pacific Islanders and their experiences with love and activism in the 1960s, 70s,
Posted on 03-08-2016 in Dragon Fruit ProjectSource: Lavender Phoenix
Dear Community,
This is Nancy and Christine. We were ~winterns~ from Brown University and we worked on the Dragon Fruit Project for two weeks this past winter break, specifically writing short-form narratives for some of the people who were interviewed in preparation for the Dragon Fruit Digital Portal launch. Even though we worked with APIENC for only two weeks, we received valuable mini trainings on many things, from conflict resolution
Posted on 03-06-2016 in Dragon Fruit ProjectSource: Lavender Phoenix
Our second Dragon Fruit Project Digital Portal Working day was held on March 6th! 16 volunteers joined us to transcribe, edit, code, and write narratives, all in preparation for the launch of our Dragon Fruit Project website! Throughout the day, we took photos to document the process. Meta. Check out our live photo-blog below!
9:50am — Getting set-up and ready for everyone to join us on this beautiful morning!
Image Description: A view
Posted on 11-09-2015 in Dragon Fruit ProjectSource: Lavender Phoenix
Through our partnership with StoryCorps, Dragon Fruit Project interviewers and storytellers have come together to share stories of love, struggle, identity, and activism. Check out some of our interviewer’s reflections on the experience, and hear about why they think storytelling …
Source: API Equality Northern
Posted on 07-27-2015 in Dragon Fruit ProjectSource: Lavender Phoenix
What does it mean to listen to each other? What does it mean to communicate across generations? To explore these questions, the Dragon Fruit Project is putting on a collaborative series on Intergenerational Conversations. From August 12 to August 15 …
Source: API Equality Northern California
Posted on 09-04-2014 in Dragon Fruit ProjectSource: Lavender Phoenix
Wikipedia is one of the most visible and widely used resources for information. However, there is a sparsity of queer API histories on Wikipedia, limited both in detail and in the number of entries. Thus, we are thrilled to invite …
Source: API Equality Northern California
Posted on 08-03-2014 in Dragon Fruit ProjectSource: Lavender Phoenix
Last month, I went to the Old Lesbians Organizing for Change conference and spoke on the intergenerational panel. While I was very aware of being the youngest person, I was proud to impart some of my wisdom on the topic of …
Source: API Equality Northern California
Posted on 07-21-2014 in Dragon Fruit ProjectSource: Lavender Phoenix
As I was walking to API Equality – Northern California’s Dragon Fruit Transcribing Day (Special Edition), I was thinking in my head “Why am I doing this on my birthday?” I could have gone shopping, met up with some friends, …
Source: API
Dragon Fruit represents our efforts around cultural preservation, knowledge production, and dissemination. By uplifting our queer API community histories, we’re breaking through the silence that is a byproduct of systematic and institutionalized oppression. When community members engage with this work as interviewers, transcribers, cataloguers and archivists, we are actively resisting the systems that have isolated us from each other and keep us out of mainstream present-day and historical narratives. Not only are we active agents archiving our individual histories, we are also piecing together organizational, community, and movement histories that will contextualize our collective narrative. When we document our history we’re also laying the groundwork for future work.
