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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…

Did You Eat Yet? April 2024 – Khmer New Year with Tevy Khou

Communities • April 18, 2024 • By 18MR Staff

Hi, I’m Tevy, a multimedia artist originally from Long Beach, CA. I also enjoy weight lifting and collecting the best pieces of clothing. Long Beach is full of creative people making music, art, and dance. Not to mention the massive amounts of skaters. It’s the most diverse place I know…

ID: Pink monochrome header with images of Palestinian protesters. Maisa, founding member of the Palestinian Feminist Collective, is pictured in more color on the left side. She's wearing glasses and her hand is up, one finger pointed up. Text reads: Did you eat yet? With Maisa Morrar from Palestinian Feminist Collective.

Did You Eat Yet? March 2023 – PFC with Maisa Morrar

Campaigns • March 25, 2024 • By 18MR Staff

Feminism Upholds Radical Love as Liberation Maisa Morrar: I’m a founding member of the Palestinian Feminist Collective, a body of Palestinian and Arab feminists committed to Palestinian social and political liberation by confronting systemic gendered, sexual, and colonial violence, oppression, and dispossession. I’m a long-time organizer and activist in the…

Image of a digital illustration of a rectangular mandala. Four tigers surround a pestle and mortar with star anise, mint, saffron, thai chilis, ginger, and green onions in the center. Around the tigers are lotus flowers and chrysanthemum flowers. Text at the top reads: Our Community. Text at the bottom reads: Is Our Remedy. Subtext reads: We hold sacred collective power. 18MR's logo in purple is under the mandala.

Our Community Is Our Remedy

Communities • February 27, 2024 • By 18MR Staff

You can support 18MR with our new merch, "Our Community Is Our Remedy". We believe deeply in the magic and power of ancestral healing, liberatory traditions, and our people to transform and end systems of oppression. We know that the best cures for these harms in society come from our…

Photo montage of floral print, red envelopes with cats on them, a table full of dim sum steamers, and a cut out image of Brenda Chi with fading teal hair, red lipstick, and a yellow dress. Main text reads: Did You Eat Yet? There is a cat peeking out of the D in Did. Subtext reads: With 18MR’s Communications Designer, Brenda Chi! She/Her.

Did You Eat Yet? Feb – CNY with Brenda Chi

Communities • February 26, 2024 • By 18MR Staff

Featuring 18MR's Communication Designer, Brenda Chi!🎨 Hey y'all, I’m Brenda Chi (she/her, Queer Chinese-Vietnamese), based in sunny Los Angeles, CA! I’m the Communications Designer for 18 Million Rising – so if you’ve seen any graphics or illustrations, I made it! Outside of 18MR, I am an illustrator, I run a…

Graphic shows a photo montage of Ke in various events, with different people, all smiling. He’s wearing a cap in most of the photos. The main one, an image of him wearing the black APSC t-shirt and black cap. Another photo of him with APSC4 members Maria, Peejay, and Bun, each holding up a fist. A selfie-style photo of Ke and Bun, laughing broadly. Another photo of Ke decked out in protective gear while on a motorcycle. A group photo of APSC members, staff, volunteers, holding a sign that reads Stop Southeast Asian deportations. A smaller photo of him next to a pile of diapers that would be donated to those in need. Text read: Nghiep “Ke” Lam, Program and Facilities Coordinator. Asian Prisoner Support Committee (APSC). APSC’s logo is in the top right corner. 18MR’s logo is in the bottom right corner. Graphic shows bright green, deep purple indigo, black, and white colors.

How I broke the chains of generational trauma

Action • 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…

Greyscale comic cover of Ke, wearing a cap. He has his arms around his dad, who is also wearing a cap, and his daughter on his right. There are drawings of dragons in the background, lightly shaded. Title text reads: Breaking the chains of generational trauma. Copy reads: Hey, my name is Ke (like Key) and this is a story about how I overcame my family’s generational trauma and how I could lose them again because I could be deported at any time. Credit: Drawn and written by Brenda Chi. @18millionrising.

Breaking the Chains of Generational Trauma

Campaigns • February 2, 2024 • By 18MR Staff

Nghiep “Ke” Lam might have just celebrated his last Lunar New Year with his family – along with three other staff members of @asianprisonersc, Peejay, Bun, and Maria – the #APSC4 members. In a collaboration between 18 Million Rising’s @brendachiart and APSC’s Ke, we highlight Ke’s story about learning how to show affection to his…

Illustration of Alice Wong, a Chinese American woman with a soft smile, red lipstick and short hair. She has a ventilator tube attached to a tracheostomy. She has She has two tigers on each side of her shoulder eating orange five spice Mochi muffins. Pink background with a faint collage of her book “Year of the Tiger” Text at the bottom “Alice Wong”

“Year of the Tiger” by Alice Wong

Communities • May 20, 2023 • By 18MR Staff

"We contain multitudes as Asian Americans and our lives are not linear, neat, or monolithic. There is so much diversity, brilliance, and nuance within the umbrella of Asian Americans that most people still do not know or understand." - Alice Wong @disability_visibility The 18MR team just got our copies of "Year…

Fertile Ground

Communities • July 2, 2021 • By 18MR Staff

18MR has produced Fertile Ground, a beautiful illustrated botanical poster and accompanying essay that introduces the concept of abolition, provides analysis on our current moment in Asian America, the limits of #StopAsianHate, and examples of community resistance to police violence. When you purchase your Fertile Ground print today a portion…