Organizing Asian America

How I broke the chains of generational trauma

February 19, 2024 • By 18MR Staff

Nghiep “Ke” Lam is a formerly incarcerated refugee from Vietnam and currently works as a staff member at Asian Prisoner Support Committee. In a collaboration between 18 Million Rising’s Brenda Chi and APSC’s Ke for Lunar New Year, Ke’s story about learning how to show affection to his dad and breaking cycles of intergenerational trauma is in this comic. 

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But for Ke, who is at risk of deportation, each Lunar New Year could be his last. 

APSC4 members transformed their lives while inside. They earned their release. But their lives are in limbo. At any day, any moment, ICE and California Department of Correction and Rehabilitation (CDCR) can choose to deport them – separating them from their families, loved ones, and their communities. It could even mean death.


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