2024 APIQWTC Scholarship Awardees!
The APIQWTC Scholarship Committee is proud to announce the 2024 Scholarship Recipients: Brittany Ladion-Lucero, Michelle Vong, Veronica Takenaka, & Zibanur Turfan (read more about the awardees below!) ✨🎊 APIQWTC & Terri Higa Memorial Scholarship Celebration 2024 🎊✨ Please join us for an in-person celebration & fundraising party ➡️ RSVP HERE! ⬅️ When: Saturday, August 3, 2024 from 4:00-6:00 PM Where: Oakland Bloom, 528 8th St, Oakland, 94607 (7 min walk from 12th St Bart) Light appetizers and drinks will be served (GF, VG options...
read more🍉Summer Gathering 2023🌴
SATURDAY, AUGUST 5TH NOON TO 4PM PST Location: Strawberry Creek Park 1260 Allston Way., Berkeley, CA 94702 ACCESS: The overall park, picnic tables, and bathrooms are wheelchair accessible. We will do our best to meet access needs shared with us on this RSVP form before Saturday, July 28. PUBLIC TRANSIT: The park is near the North Berkeley BART Station and AC Transit Lines. We will be offering carpool rides as well. From Summer Gathering 2023. Posted by APIQWTC – Asian Pacific Islander Queer Women & Transgender Community on...
read more2023 APIQWTC Scholarship Awardees!
The APIQWTC Scholarship Committee is proud to announce the 2023 Scholarship Recipients: Carolyn Lau and Jacqueline Pham Please join us at the first in-person banquet since 2019 to celebrate our awardees on April 15, 2023 @ 5PM in Oakland! (tickets here) Donate: To continue our efforts to sustain the APIQWTC scholarship, please consider donating! Carolyn Lau (they/she) is a queer, fourth-generation Chinese American born and raised in Queens, New York. They will graduate in May from Columbia University with an MA in American Studies. Carolyn...
read moreAPIQWTC Banquet 2023
APIQWTC’s annual Lunar New Year Banquet is back! We only have 150 seats, so buy your tickets NOW! Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/apiqwtc-banquet-2023-tickets-572017518797 Date and time: Sat, Apr 15, 2023, 5:00 PM PDT Location: Peony Seafood Restaurant – 388 9th Street #STE 288, Oakland, CA 94607 Parking: Street parking is available; $3/hour Pacific Renaissance Plaza Parking Garage About this event Come mingle with API queer and trans folks, make new friends, reconnect with old ones, and perhaps meet the love(s) of your...
read moreCALL FOR APPLICATIONS APIQWTC SCHOLARSHIP 2023
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS APIQWTC SCHOLARSHIP DEADLINE: February 14, 2023 AWARD OVERVIEW APIQWTC (Asian and Pacific Islander Queer Women and Transgender Community) is a fun, welcoming, multi-generational group of Asian & Pacific Islander queer women and transgender people in the Bay Area who are building community together. We are the legacy of API queer activism, stemming from earlier-founded organizations going back to 1987. APIQWTC is a wholly volunteer-based organization that provides opportunities for API queer women and transgender...
read more2022 APIQWTC Scholarship Awardees!
The APIQWTC Scholarship Committee is proud to announce the 2022 Scholarship Recipients: Mai Tran and Nuriel Cahigas! Please join us virtually to celebrate and congratulate our awardees! Tuesday, June 21, 2022 from 6:30-7:00pm PDT
read moreAPIQWTC Scholarship 2022 – Call for Applications
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS DEADLINE: February 14, 2022 AWARD OVERVIEW APIQWTC (Asian and Pacific Islander Queer Women and Transgender Community) is a fun, welcoming, multi-generational group of Asian & Pacific Islander queer women and transgender people in the Bay Area who are building community together. We are the legacy of API queer activism, stemming from earlier-founded organizations going back to 1987. APIQWTC is a wholly volunteer-based organization that provides opportunities for API queer women and transgender people to socialize,...
read more2021 APIQWTC Scholarship Awardees!
The APIQWTC Scholarship Committee is proud to announce the 2021 Scholarship Recipients:
Thao Nguyen and Anna Schneider
Thanks to those who joined us virtually to celebrate on 6/30/21 [Watch Video]
read moreWeekend 1 – UCLA Asian American Studies Center 2021 Film Festival
APIQWTC is a Community Partner for this 2-weekend film festival. UCLA Asian American Studies Center 2021 Film Festival (Presented by UCLA Asian American Studies Center and UCLA Film & Television Archive). Films Festival Schedule WEEKEND 1: February 19-21, 2021 WEEKEND 2: February 26-28, 2021 More info, please visit: UCLA AASC 2021 Film Festival | AASC All programs are free, but require RSVP. All programs are free, but require RSVP. All of the RSVP links are on this website. Weekend 1 Complexities of Race Friday, February 19, 2021 4 PM...
read more🏳️🌈 VISIONS OF FIRE: LGBTQ+ VOICES 🏳️🌈 – Weekend 2
Exciting news!!! As a Community Partner, APIQWTC invites you to partake and watch this LGBTQ+ program online: VISIONS OF FIRE: LGBTQ+ VOICES, UCLA Asian American Studies Center 2021 Film Festival Saturday, 2/27 at 3pm PST Let’s show our support for queer filmmakers. Thanks to those who have joined us to watch screenings. All programs in this festival are free, and RSVP is required. More info about other films in the film festival: http://www.aasc.ucla.edu/filmfest/2021 For more information: For more information:...
read moreAPIQWTC Mug Design Contest 2021
Mug Art Commission! 2021 – Calling all illustrators, designers, artists! APIQWTC is looking for artwork for the Year of the Ox & Water Buffalo Lunar New Year mug. Please submit your design by March 5th.
read moreAPIQWTC Scholarship 2021
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS – Current students in certificate or degree-granting program, as well as high school seniors, and other future students about to matriculate into a certificate or degree-granting program in Summer 2021 or Fall 2021 are eligible to apply.
read more2020 APIQWTC Scholarship Awardees!
The APIQWTC Scholarship Committee is proud to announce the 2020 Scholarship Recipients:
Madhvi Trivedi-Pathak and Hana Kadoyama
Many of us have gathered on 7/1/2020 virtually to celebrate and congratulate our awardees!
Click Here and watch the recording of our 🏳️🌈 celebration!
2020 Annual Lunar New Year Banquet Statement
For over 30 years, we’ve celebrated our community together at our annual lunar new year banquet. This year, the APIQWTC leadership committee (known as the “Big Circle Committee”) has chosen to pause, and make 2020 a gap year for the banquet.
read moreAPI Transmasculine Anthology QACON Workshop – Sat., 5/4/19
Come to the 12th Annual QACON (Queer and Asian Conference) May 3-5, 2019 @ UC Berkeley
Join This Workshop: API Transmasculine Anthology | Join the Rice Bowl: Telling our Stories & Creating Our Art
1:50pm – 3:05pm at 109 Dwinelle Hall (Saturday, 5/4/19)
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2019 APIQWTC Scholarship Awardees!
Congratulations to our 2019 APIQWTC scholarship awardees, Paige Chung and Bo Hwang! Paige Ho Thuy My Chung is pursuing her B.A. in Critical Ethnic Studies and English at Kalamazoo College, MI. As a recent summer organizer at API Equality – Northern California 2018, Paige worked on the Dragon Fruit Network, an intergenerational support system for Queer and Trans Asian and Pacific Islander (QTAPI) elders and youth to bond and receive a network of assistance. At APIENC, they researched qualitative data, performed literature reviews, and...
read more2019 Year of the Pig Lunar New Year Banquet
Celebrate with us at the APIQWTC 32nd Annual Banquet
Evening of Saturday
Date: April 20, 2019
Location: Ed Roberts Campus
(BART & Parking-Friendly)
3/15/19 – When Pigs Fly Over the Moon – A QTAPI gathering
A community resource fair with QTAPI organizations tabling in the lobby, performances and showcases of community talent and stories in the theatre, a conference room for breakout sessions and meetups, and a history exhibit featuring some of earliest QTAPI organizers.
read moreSAVE THE DATE! APIQWTC’s 32nd Year of the Pig Lunar New Year Banquet
Evening of Saturday
Date: April 20, 2019
Location: Ed Roberts Campus
(BART & Parking-Friendly)
Seeking Performers for APIQWTC’s 32nd Lunar New Year Banquet
The Asian and Pacific Islander Queer Women and Transgender Community is looking for talent of all types to perform at our annual Lunar New Year Banquet to be held on April 20, 2019.
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