Organizing Asian America
We’re teaming up with Persuasians, the first Asian drag house from the South, along with drag performers in Texas to celebrate trans liberation. Join us for a virtual drag night of celebration and FUN-raising for The Knights & Orchids Society: Dragging Transphobia!
"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…
Mehlam and Kiran of HEART To Grow join us to talk Ramadan, reproductive justice, and gender-affirming, non-judgemental, and faith-inspired approach to sex education.
18 Million Rising partnered with Liquor Store Dreams to host a discussion panel and created a resource guide.
C’mon Barbie let’s Stop Cop City!bit.ly/18MRSTOPCOPCITY to send a letter to tell cop city contractors Brassfield & Gorrie, LS3P Architects, Atlas Technical Consultants, Specialty Finishes Incorporated, Brent Scarborough & Company, and Trammell Crow Company to cut ties with police violence and #StopCopCity
Yin Q & LOVE Queen Layla, core members & organizers of Red Canary Song join 18MR this month as guest editors to talk about massage and sex worker mutual aid, art activism, the Massage License Decriminalization Act, and remembering the loss of our sisters two years after the Atlanta-area shooting.
“Drag is sacred.” - GQMujra Drag performers are the pinnacle of creativity and resilience. 18MR recently hosted a Happy Hour & Drag Nite with @understoryoakland and had the honor of having GQMujra, Kristi Yummykochi, and Xtina Agitera who reminded us about the power we collectively hold when we remain unapologetically authentic to…
Zen Sekizawa from J-Town Action とSolidarity, and Theo Henderson from We The Unhoused, join 18MR this month as guest editors to talk about cross community collaboration, Black History Month, Year of the Rabbit, and much more.
Join us for We Keep Us Safe, a community safety training on February 15th at 1PM PT/ 4PM ET. You’ll learn from Kalaya’an Mendoza (he/they) of Nonviolent Peaceforce, an award-winning facilitator of holistic safety and security. He has inspired, trained, and mobilized thousands of activists in the US and abroad.…
As we process our collective grief, we find ourselves struggling with the responsibility of condemning the shootings while navigating anti-Asian violence and respectability politics. We find ourselves forced to speak for all Asians everywhere, an impossible and unhelpful task. We’ve even been denied the space to grieve without others using this tragedy as an opportunity to push dangerous narratives.
