People with darker skin can have phenomenal tattoos. Stop saying otherwise 🙅🏾‍♂️🙅🏽‍♀️🙅🏻⁣  ⁣ Join us for our next Resilience Series where we’ll hear from @cara_tattoos + @jonmap on their journeys as tattoo artists of color in Portland, and how it’s become a healing practice for themselves and others 🌿🪄🌵⁣  ⁣ Register bit.ly/tattoosare4bipoc

the part 2 we all needed🥁🎹 spend the last day of #FilipinoAmericanHistoryMonth listening to Filipino artists you recommended follow them on IG ⬇️ @chainsawgirl @rinidawg @indayhan @kimmortaltheartist #FAHM

A little bit louder for the people in the back: Black Birth Matters 🍼🤰🏿👨🏾‍🍼⁣ ⁣ Learn more about birth worker + local Orchards of 82nd resident @theafrocentricdoula 🖤🤍 She’s speaking with her collaborator, Roshani Thakore, on their zine Black Birth Matters next Friday 11/5 at 5 pm at EPALF’s online exhibition. This is a culmination of our first Artist Residency cohort. Register at http://bit.ly/queerpalf-air 🧩⁣ ⁣ And YES, snag a printed copy of Black Birth Matters! If you are Black, a guardian/caretaker or a birth worker, this zine is free! For everyone else, support @theafrocentricdoula ✨ venmo a sliding scale donation of $5-15 at @ Grahamyoh88+ email our Cultural Work coordinator Roshani at [email protected] for your copy 💌⁣ ⁣ ⁣ ⁣ #blackbirthmatters #epalf #queerpalf #apano #blacklivesmatter

no hate to Olivia Rodrigo, Saweetie, Bruno Mars or Ruby but there are other talented 🇵🇭 musicians that deserve hype too. ofc this list doesn’t touch all genres but anyone we missed?#FilipinoAmericanHistoryMonth #FAHM

#QUEERPALF starts this Friday ✨⁣ ⁣ Spend the next four Fridays sharing space with QTBIPOC artists and creatives in our online workshops 💻🪐🪴 ⁣ ⁣ Check out the full schedule in our earlier post or link in bio ↗️⁣ ⁣ 🧩⁣ 🧩⁣ 🧩⁣ ⁣ #epalf #apano #bipoc #bipocartists #qtbipoc

#StopAsianHate means setting up the Non-Emergency Bias Response Hotline. We advocated for this in 2019 and after this year’s Atlanta shooting. We’re glad to see it finally happening. This is how we as Asians and Pacific Islanders can seek alternatives to 911 alongside our Black communities.⁣ ⁣ When you call the hotline, trauma informed operators are standing by. Interpretation is available in 240+ languages. The hotline operates from 9am-5pm Monday to Friday, and returns over-the-weekend calls.⁣ ⁣ The Oregon Dept. Of Justice bias response hotline is also hiring for bilingual and multilingual advocates. Apply in our link in bio. This is one way to show up for our community. This is one way to help police-reliant APIs understand how community care can replace police in the long term. ⁣

What can communities of color learn from the pandemic about how we come together to build community?⁣ ⁣ How has our relationship to each other, and how we inhabit space together, changed because of COVID19?⁣ ⁣ How can communities of color intentionally cultivate space and ceremony that embrace joy, grief, and healing?⁣ ⁣ Please join APANO community members, in a BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) only space, for the next gathering: Resilience of Intentional Gathering & Other Lessons about Community from COVID19. We will be joined by Subashini Ganesan-Forbes and Bea Yeh Ogden to explore the importance of ritual, ceremony, and intentional gathering for communities of color. This gathering will reflect on what the pandemic can teach communities of color about how we gather and why we gather. We will consider how cultivated ceremonial space can hold space for joy, grief, and healing simultaneously.⁣ ⁣ ✨Community Speakers⁣✨ ⁣ ⭐️Subashini Ganesan-Forbes (she/her) Founder/ED, New Expressive Works⁣ ⁣ Subashini Ganesan is a curator, arts administrator, choreographer, and former Creative Laureate of Portland (2018 – June 2021). As a Bharathanatyam artist, Ganesan has been learning, teaching, performing, and presenting this art form for over four decades. ⁣ ⭐️Bea Yeh Ogden, MS. (she/her) APANO Event & Community Space Manager. ⁣Founder/Head Curator, Cloud.Break⁣ ⁣ Bea Yeh Ogden is a curator, arts administrator, event producer, consultant, artist, activist, and environmentalist. She graduated from Reed College with a BA in English after completing her thesis exploring poetry written by Chinese immigrants while detained at the Angel Island Immigration Station from 1910 – 1940. ⁣ Register link in bio ↗️

It’s that time of year again to announce this year’s East Portland Arts and Literary Festival or EPALF ⚡️ or should we say #QUEERPALF 🤓⁣ ⁣ Spend your Fridays in online writing workshops, storytelling sessions, and a lunchtime art series as we collectively shape a narrative for our community through a QTBIPOC lens 🖤🤎 Plus, we’ll have an ongoing QUEERPALF marketplace to uplift our artist and creative community. All funds go directly to the vendors 📚✏️🏓⁣ ⁣ Much love to the Queer/Trans Asian and Pacific Islander (QTAPI) Subcommittee of @amppdx for leading this year’s QUEERPALF S/o to @writearoundpdx @apirainbowparents and @rosecdcpdx for your partnership 🧡⁣ ⁣ Send your access questions or ask for digital accommodations to [email protected] 📨 We will do our best to provide requested accommodations to make our events as accessible as possible for attendees.⁣ ⁣ Register for workshops at link in bio 🍄

Turn your business into a pokestop on Pokemon GO! 🚶🌳🛍️ 🍙⁣ ⁣ We’re working with @nationalcapacd @nainticlabs @pokemongo to offer free sponsored locations to AAPI-owned small businesses in Oregon. Adding your business as a Pokestop or Gym in the game offers advertising via the app to millions of active players.⁣ ⁣ We are excited to be able to boost foot traffic to our AAPI businesses after months of severe impacts from the pandemic alongside the rise in hate incidents. This has made it tremendously challenging for AAPI businesses to recover. To join you simply need an email address and to be an AAPI owned business. You can also get updated statistics about increased foot traffic. This program is intended for small (<50 employees) AAPI businesses. ⁣ ⁣ Learn more + sign up in our link in bio or at apano.org. Happy playing! ⚡️🍄⁣ ⁣ #StopAsianHate #StopAAPIHate #SupportSmallBiz #portlandOR ⁣

Here’s to our favorite people 🎊🥳⁣ ⁣ ➡️ Oregonians who testified ⁣ ➡️ Oregonians who fought for district lines that reflect the increasing diversity based on the 2020 census⁣ ➡️ Oregon legislators for a transparent public process ⁣ ➡️ Oregon legislators who held 22 public hearings⁣ ➡️ Oregon legislators who conducted multiple rounds of map revisions based on public input ⁣ ➡️ Oregon legislators who refused to give into Republicans’ extreme tactics ⁣ ➡️ Oregon legislators who held these politicians accountable for walking off the job and violating their oath of office ⁣ ⁣ Racial analysis data of the maps coming soon. But we do know the Jade District is kept together 🧡🧡 Today we can be relieved that fair, legal, and representative district maps will be going into effect. ⁣ ⁣ #ORredistricting #ORpol #ORleg

Rep. Schrader, don’t be a traitor 😡 ⁣ ⁣ The lives of Asian and Pacific Islander working families are at stake. #BuildBackBetter needs to happen. ⁣ ⁣ Take 1 minute to tell Rep. Schrader to show up for us ➡️➡️ bit.ly/SupportFamiliesNowSchrader⁣ ⁣ #orpol #orleg

Our hearts are broken seeing the horrific images of the US government attacking Haitian asylum seekers. Sadly, this is not new.  ⁣ ⁣ We echo the calls of @instabaji Although the aggression and violence on Black migrants has passed through several US administrations, Biden as the current @POTUS must immediately ⁣ ✅ grant humanitarian parole to Haitian and other Black asylum seekers at the US/Mexico border⁣ ✅ revoke Title 42⁣ ✅ end the metering system used to process asylum seekers⁣ ✅ honor international law ⁣ ⁣ Call your Congressional offices ☎️ and ask them to demand that Biden stop the deportations. ⁣ ⁣ Find talking points, email scripts 📨 and social media captions at http://bit.ly/URGENTACTIONFORBLACKMIGRANTS ⁣ ⁣ Read @instabaji full statement ➡️ bit.ly/BidenMustGrantHumanitarianParoleHaitians⁣ ⁣ #Title42isRacist #BlackAtTheBorder #MeteringIsRacist #ProtectHaitianAsylumSeekers #AsiansforBlackLives ⁣ ⁣ @POTUS @VP @SecMayorkas