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  Asian American Lit Fest

  September 14th to 22nd, 2024 — Join us for the 2024 Asian American Literature Festival (AALF), a historic multi-city gathering designed to support and nurture Asian American literature and the literary community. For more information about the festival, check out our post andthe Asian American Literature Festival website.

  

  

  

  

  

Unghosted Reading

Uncanceled, unghosted, and still here. Join us for a virtual reading in celebration of Asian diasporic trans, non-binary, and gender-expansive as we gather to fundraise for ReorientingReads.com, a new campaign and community resource for lovers and learners of our stories. 

This event, organized in the wake of the cancellation of the 2023 Asian American Literary Festival, will be held virtually on Zoom. Saturday, November 11th, 2023 at 3 pm PT / 6 pm ET. As Trans Day of Remembrance approaches, as grief and violence persist, we gather collectively to defy all attempts to censor our livelihoods.

Featuring Andrea Abi-Karam, George Abraham, Ashna Ali, H Felix Chau Bradley, Celeste Chan, 최 Lindsay, Chae(lee) Dalton, River 瑩瑩 Dandelion, Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch, Zeyn Joukhadar, Koomah, e.jin, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Trish Salah, Willy Wilkinson. Curated by Ching-In Chen, Noah Arhm Choi, Chrysanthemum, and Yanyi.

This event is in collaboration with Asian American Writers’ Workshop, Asian/Pacific/American Institute at New York University, Brew & Forge, Kaya Press, Kundiman, Lambda Literary, Loyalty Bookstores, Palah Light Lab at The New School

This event will have live captioning and ASL interpretation, provided by Pro Bono ASL and Sign Nexus. Registration is required.

Community Dreaming Sessions

This month, we’re hosting dreaming sessions (via Zoom) on Tuesday, May 14th and Thursday, May 30th from 7-9 pm ET / 4-6 pm PT.

We’re inviting trans, intersex, nonbinary, and gender-expansive community members across Asian and Pacific Islander diasporas to offer feedback that will shape the Reorienting Reads collective. 

Reorienting Reads is a new collective that emerged from recent organizing efforts in response to the cancellation of the 2023 Asian American Literature Festival and the Asian American Trans and Nonbinary Reading Room. 

We are committed to amplifying Asian and Pacific Islander diasporic trans, intersex, nonbinary, and gender-expansive voices through community events, educational resources, and publishing projects. We’re eager for your feedback on what you want this collective to do and what it could look like!

In this session, we hope to:

• 1) Learn about your hopes and dreams for our collective 
• 2) Imagine possibilities for present and future projects
• 3) Share avenues for engagement and collaboration 

Please join us for one of the sessions:

• Session #1: Tuesday, May 14th, 7-9 p.m. ET / 4-6 p.m. PT 
• Session #2: Thursday, May 30th, 7-9 p.m. ET / 4-6 p.m. PT

This invitation is open to trans, intersex, nonbinary, and gender-expansive people across Asian and Pacific Islander diasporas.

RSVP at lu.ma/reorientingreads