API Transmasculine Stories in Motion - Sat, 10/24, 6:30pm - Asian and Pacific Islander transmasculine artists take the stage with original work spanning poetry, memoir, storytelling, and embodied performance. Lambda Literary Award–winning author Willy Wilkinson performs “The Poetry of Scars” through Body as Truth, an emerging art form in which the body presents truth as evidence. Voices from the API diaspora explore alignment, inheritance, and connection across cultures and generations.
🗓️ Saturday, October 24, 2026 - 6:30pm - 7:30pm PDT
📍 Blondie's Bar (540 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110)
More info: https://litcrawlsf2026.sched.com/event/2WIkP/37-api-transmasculine-stories-in-motion
🗓️ Saturday, October 24, 2026 - 6:30pm - 7:30pm PDT
📍 Blondie's Bar (540 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110)
More info: https://litcrawlsf2026.sched.com/event/2WIkP/37-api-transmasculine-stories-in-motion
🌈 APIQWTC Doggie Play Date on August 29th, 2026 at Point Isabel Regional Shoreline in Richmond, CA. It was so much fun having about 20 of us met up for the stroll and for the impromptu lunch afterwards. It was truly intergenerational among humans and dogs. We all had a wonderful dose of community, doggie fun 🐾, sunshine ☀️, and the beautiful panoramic view of the Bay, on top of getting our steps in. 😁
The QWOCMAP Film & Freedom Academy is back: This year we will welcome a Youth cohort of LBTQIA+ BIPOC creatives aged 18-24 for an intensive filmmaking workshop designed to make filmmaking doable & fun!
During the workshop young storytellers will create, write, direct, and edit a 5-minute film. The program offers professional training including an online meet & greet, phone/video check-in, hands-on exercises and interactive technical lectures, coaching, equipment, and resources, free of charge.
QWOCMAP - Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project was built to change who gets to make films and what those films look like. We’re excited to offer the Youth Film & Freedom Academy as a way to hear and share stories by, for, and about LBTQIA+ BIPOC Youth.
Applications open tomorrow September 9 at https://qwocmap.org/workshops/ffa-youth-filmmaking/
During the workshop young storytellers will create, write, direct, and edit a 5-minute film. The program offers professional training including an online meet & greet, phone/video check-in, hands-on exercises and interactive technical lectures, coaching, equipment, and resources, free of charge.
QWOCMAP - Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project was built to change who gets to make films and what those films look like. We’re excited to offer the Youth Film & Freedom Academy as a way to hear and share stories by, for, and about LBTQIA+ BIPOC Youth.
Applications open tomorrow September 9 at https://qwocmap.org/workshops/ffa-youth-filmmaking/
🌈 APIQWTC Doggie Play Date
You’re invited to join us on August 29th, 11AM-1PM, at Point Isabel Regional Shoreline in Richmond, CA, for a nice stroll by the water and some off-leash fun. We welcome all members and friends & family of APIQWTC who are dog owners or dog lovers. Even if you don’t own a dog, please come and hang out! More info:
https://apiqwtc.org/apiqwtc-doggie-play-date-august-29th-2026/
You’re invited to join us on August 29th, 11AM-1PM, at Point Isabel Regional Shoreline in Richmond, CA, for a nice stroll by the water and some off-leash fun. We welcome all members and friends & family of APIQWTC who are dog owners or dog lovers. Even if you don’t own a dog, please come and hang out! More info:
https://apiqwtc.org/apiqwtc-doggie-play-date-august-29th-2026/
The APIQWTC Scholarship Committee is proud to announce 2026 Terri Higa Memorial Scholarship Recipient Gracyn Kent!
Gracyn (they/them) is an Asian American nonbinary educator transitioning from special education to aviation. They will begin the Aviation Technology program at the University of Cincinnati Clermont College, where they will work toward their degree and the pilot certifications needed to become a Certified Flight Instructor and pursue a professional career in aviation. They are active members of the National Gay Pilots Association and the Professional Asian Pilots Association and are involved with a local NGPA chapter that fosters connection and support for LGBTQ+ aviators and allies. Through their aviation journey, they hope to fulfill their potential and embrace their authentic self while helping create space for others to do the same.
Gracyn (they/them) is an Asian American nonbinary educator transitioning from special education to aviation. They will begin the Aviation Technology program at the University of Cincinnati Clermont College, where they will work toward their degree and the pilot certifications needed to become a Certified Flight Instructor and pursue a professional career in aviation. They are active members of the National Gay Pilots Association and the Professional Asian Pilots Association and are involved with a local NGPA chapter that fosters connection and support for LGBTQ+ aviators and allies. Through their aviation journey, they hope to fulfill their potential and embrace their authentic self while helping create space for others to do the same.
The APIQWTC Scholarship Committee is proud to announce 2026 Scholarship Recipient Tiffany Tran!
Tiffany Tran (she/her) self-identifies as a Queer 2nd generation Vietnamese and is a 2nd year Master’s of Social Welfare (MSW) graduate student at UC Berkeley. Ever since she was a child, she knew she wanted to help vulnerable and marginalized communities. This core purpose has led to her pursuit of an Associate’s of Arts (AA) and Bachelor’s of Arts (BA) in Psychology, and is now currently aspiring towards an MSW. This pursuit in helping various communities is evident in her previous nearly 10 years of work experience in various non-profits in mental health and social services, serving populations throughout all age demographics and working in partnership with organizations across the Bay Area. One of her most meaningful projects involved developing and implementing the distribution of NeuroQueer Kits at Silicon Valley Pride in 2024 in order to support intersectional neurodivergent and Queer individuals. Additionally, she is proud to continue doing organizing work with Lavender Phoenix to build Queer, Asian, and working class power across intersectional movements. Having previously been in the Abundance Committee and currently in SKATE Committee, Tiffany has acquired fundraising and leadership development skills that are necessary to deepen community efforts and acquire resources in order to propel movements forward. She hopes to become a mezzo and macro level social worker, where she can develop healing groups and contribute to the programmatic efforts to fill in current service gaps. Overall, she hopes to utilize her organizing efforts and social work profession as avenues to liberate and uplift not only the Queer, Asian, and Vietnamese communities that raised her, but standing in allyship to better the present and shape a collective future that all oppressed communities can benefit from.
Tiffany Tran (she/her) self-identifies as a Queer 2nd generation Vietnamese and is a 2nd year Master’s of Social Welfare (MSW) graduate student at UC Berkeley. Ever since she was a child, she knew she wanted to help vulnerable and marginalized communities. This core purpose has led to her pursuit of an Associate’s of Arts (AA) and Bachelor’s of Arts (BA) in Psychology, and is now currently aspiring towards an MSW. This pursuit in helping various communities is evident in her previous nearly 10 years of work experience in various non-profits in mental health and social services, serving populations throughout all age demographics and working in partnership with organizations across the Bay Area. One of her most meaningful projects involved developing and implementing the distribution of NeuroQueer Kits at Silicon Valley Pride in 2024 in order to support intersectional neurodivergent and Queer individuals. Additionally, she is proud to continue doing organizing work with Lavender Phoenix to build Queer, Asian, and working class power across intersectional movements. Having previously been in the Abundance Committee and currently in SKATE Committee, Tiffany has acquired fundraising and leadership development skills that are necessary to deepen community efforts and acquire resources in order to propel movements forward. She hopes to become a mezzo and macro level social worker, where she can develop healing groups and contribute to the programmatic efforts to fill in current service gaps. Overall, she hopes to utilize her organizing efforts and social work profession as avenues to liberate and uplift not only the Queer, Asian, and Vietnamese communities that raised her, but standing in allyship to better the present and shape a collective future that all oppressed communities can benefit from.
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