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Purple textured graphic with montage of photos. Photos include Khokhoi, a femme Filipina person with short dark hair. She's smiling, next to an older Filipina woman wearing a white dress. Another photo of Rafi, a queer Filipino person with a slight stubble, smiling. They're next to two older Filipina women wearing glasses, and Khokhoi. There is a cut out photo Rafi, crouching low, and cutting up something a tropical vegetable? Text reads: Did you eat yet? With Khokhoi and Rafi of Baba Bisaya.

DID YOU EAT YET? NOV 2025 WITH Khokhoi & Rafi, Baba Bisaya

Communities • November 27, 2025 • By 18MR Staff

Hello! We are Khokhoi and Rafi, co-founders of Bàbà Bisaya - a Visayan language learning school. Our vision is to connect diasporic and urbanized Filipino communities to local island roots through language. We dream of worlds where diaspora deepen relationships of care. From the motherlands to planetary histories of displacement,…

“Food Is Resistance: For The Love of Bread with Reem Assil” Zine

Campaigns • April 15, 2025 • By 18MR

Our new zine “Food is Resistance: For The Love of Bread with Reem Assil” is FREE and available to download!🍉 “There are millions of Palestinian refugees all over – so when we think about our food sovereignty it’s about cultural preservation in the places that we’re in, and that’s inevitably…

Collage of folks in Ireland in front of mural that says "Free Derry" with the Palestinian and Irish Flag facing each other. then a green sweatshirt with an illustration with 4 tigers and flowers that says "Our Community is Our Remedy", and in front of that is a purple-hue group picture of 18MR smiling to the camera. 18MR logo and "WRAPPED 2024" is the header over their group picture. Under that are group protest images in Oakland and an 8-bit computer with chat bubbles.

18MR EOY 2024

Culture • December 10, 2024 • By 18MR

Hey there! As we close out 2024, we’re thankful to you for sticking around and organizing alongside us.  And we’re thankful to you for continuing to mobilize and take action. From our efforts to keep our beloved community together to the struggle for Palestinian Liberation, we know you’re with us. …

Island Women Rise Art

Communities • October 31, 2024 • By 18MR

Happy Halloween and the last day of this year’s Filipino American History Month! 🎃 🇵🇭 A few weeks back, I went to see ISLAND WOMEN RISE with @kariokubo . This was a concert with @rubyibarra @rockyrivera @kimmortaltheartist @faithsantilla and Klassy. You could feel community in the concert. The power of music, spoken word, poetry…

Asians for a Liberated Palestine Resource Guide

Campaigns • October 9, 2024 • By 18MR

Short link to guide: bit.ly/A4LP_GUIDE  Curious about how Asian Americans are part of Palestinian Resistance? Refer to our guide above to read, watch, listen to some free education and discussions! Please share this guide to others as this will be updated periodically. Feel free to contribute to our guide by…

mostly purple toned header graphic with a collage of photos. Text reads: Did you eat yet? With our summer organizer, Cid Muang. There is a photo of a flag that reads Stanford Asian Action Committee on the left. On the right is a photo of Cid - they have short curly, purple hair. They're wearing eyeliner and a black long sleeve shirt. They're smiling.

Did You Eat Yet? July 2024 with Cid Muang

Communities • July 17, 2024 • By 18MR Staff

Hello everyone! My name is Cid and I’m currently in the Summer Organizer Program with Lavender Phoenix working to create digital and video content for 18MR. I am an undergraduate student at Stanford and have been heavily involved in campus organizing specifically with the local Asian American committee at my…

🌈NO PRIDE IN GENOCIDE🌈

Campaigns • June 13, 2024 • By 18MR Staff

Illustration by Brenda Chi This month, we remember our queer lineages. We remember that pride began with a riot. We remember how our queer ancestors and elders fought to protect the spaces we’ve cultivated for ourselves. We bring that history of resistance to say No Pride in Genocide. From the…

Orange background with a hand drawn tiger with white belly, over a circle of South Asian lotus flower motifs, in orange and white. Under that, a bowl full of green leaves, red, and orange herbs. At the top, a purple box that says "Our Community is our Remedy" in white. Below, a dark green box that says in white, "DID YOU EAT YET?" Bottom right is a portrait of Jen Soriano, her left arm folded to hold her face, black short hair, with medium-fair skin, in a white blouse. Below that in dark green, says in white, "Jen Soriano".

Did You Eat Yet? May 2024 – APAHM with Jen Soriano

Communities • May 20, 2024 • By 18MR Staff

Hello fellow freedom lovers! My name is Jen Soriano – some people call me JenSo – and I’m an author, musician, and former board member of 18MR. I’m excited to be guest editing this month’s newsletter for Asian Pacific American Heritage Month and Mental Health Awareness Month! I’ve dedicated most of…

Mostly green textured graphic with an illustration of a dark-skinned hand holding a red 1940s style house key. There are three of them staggered down. In the background is an overexposed photo of a crowd. Text reads: Al-Nakba: Resistance Until Return! Liberated Palestine Within Our Lifetime!

Nakba Day

Communities • May 14, 2024 • By 18MR Staff

On May 15, 1948, over 700,000 Palestinians were displaced in the Nakba - Arabic for “catastrophe.” This May 15, we’re remembering the 76 years of the ongoing ethnic cleansing and genocide, demanding all of us to #Escalate4Gaza. In the same year as the first Nakba, the U.N. released a Universal…

orange background with leaves, in white says, "OUR COMMUNITY IS OUR REMEDY". Below, an aqua ractangle with black text, "RSVP: BIT.LY/18MR_COMMUNITY". Then an orange tiger (hand drawn) rotate facing the Aqua rectangle, over drawings of South Asian Lotus, in orange and green. In purple on the center says, "May 30, 1pm pt/ 4pm et, "Learn how Asian Americans and Palestinians are building power through community care and cultural resistance." Below, in a green bow, white text says, "Featuring Speakers, Jen Soriano, Mawal Rashid, Spenta Kandawalla."

Our Community Is Our Remedy Event

Communities • May 9, 2024 • By 18MR Staff

Learn how Asian Americans and Palestinians are building power through solidarity, community care, and cultural resistance❤️🍉Co-sponsored by @aroc_bayarea Our Community Is Our RemedyMay 30, 20241 pm PTRSVP: bit.ly/18MR_COMMUNITY(case sensitive) Hear from guest speakers:✦ Jen Soriano @jensorianowrites✦ Nawal Rashid @nawal340✦ Spenta Kandawalla @spentawalla It is only through building community power that we can dismantle systems…