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Dumplings N’ Dates

piali — Wed, 09 May 2012 19:17:27 +0000

Love dumplings? How about fun dates this summer?

Join Q-WAVE and members of GAPIMNY for Dumplings N’ Dates to work your deft dumpling making skills or bid on some quality time with your favourite community member.

Regardless of whether you’re a dumpling master or a klutz in the kitchen, attached or single, come help us raise funds to build and strengthen the next generation of queer community leaders!

WHERE: Studio and courtyard of the New York New Church, 114 East 35th St (btw Park & Lexington Aves.)

WHEN: Saturday, 2nd June, 6 – 10pm

WHY: Because you know you want to! (support queer Asian leadership that is)

You already know the dumpling making stations, diverse dates across the gender spectrum, cash bar and fabulous MCs are going to keep you entertained, but we’ll be sending out juicy updates and surprises as the date approaches, so put us in your calendar!

FaceBook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/271250256304678/

Proceeds from this event will benefit Q-Wave and the community’s leadership building at the National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance’s Presence, Power and Progress conference in Washington, D.C. this summer.

This event is supported and co-sponsored by the Gay Asian Pacific Islander Men of New York (GAPIMNY)

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Q-Wave at the AAPI Heritage Festival

Q-Wave — Fri, 04 May 2012 17:57:15 +0000

May is Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month! And like the past years, Q-WAVE will be tabling (with GAPIMNY) at the AAPI Heritage Festival to promote awareness for the LGBTQ Asian American Pacific Islander community! It’s a great opportunity for us to show the AAPI community in New York that we are here, we’re queer, and to please buy some baked goods!

The festival itself is an open air market with a multitude of AAPI organizations and businesses with activities, performances, yummy food and drink stalls and a festive vibe. (http://www.capaonline.org/)

Time: Saturday, May 12th – 11:00AM to 6:00PM

Place: DUMBO (Brooklyn) – Under the bridge.

As fellow Q-Wavers, can you join us & volunteer to staff our table? Volunteers will be needed in 2-hour shifts from 10:00AM – 6:30PM.

We are also asking for volunteer bakers. While tabling & promoting awareness, we also do a BAKE SALE to help fundraise for Q-WAVE! Do you have knack for making delicious cookies or brownies? Or do you stink at both but are willing to donate a pre-made cake? If any of these apply to you, please help donate yummy delish baked goods that we can sell for Q-WAVE.

If you’re down to help in any capacity (volunteer/bake/buy), please fill out this VOLUNTEER FORM

And remember, the more volunteers – the more fun we’ll have! (Cough fillouttheform cough volunteerandhangoutwithpiali&aileen cough)

Cheers!
Piali & Aileen

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Asian American Parents who love their Queer Kids – Fri 3/30 @ 6pm

Q-Wave — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 02:18:13 +0000

Join NQAPIA, GAPIMNY, QWAVE, and Center Families in this program:

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ASIAN AMERICAN PARENTS WHO LOVE THEIR QUEER KIDS

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Friday, March 30, 2012

6:00 to 8:00 PM

The LGBT Center, Room 302

208 West 13th Street, between 7^th and 8^th Avenues, West Village

The Event

Marsha Aizumi , an Asian American mother describes how she and her transgender son moved from fear and uncertainty to love and acceptance. Sharing some of her innermost thoughts and feelings, Marsha will describe specific and concrete ways they were able to face adversity and keep their hearts open to each other.

The Speaker

Marsha, who resides in Los Angeles, is one the national Board of PFLAG. Marsha is an educational consultant, author of an upcoming memoir being released by Magnus Books called Two Spirits, One Heartand recently was elected to the Parents, Family and Friends for Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) National Board. She believes her journey with her transgender son transformed her into a more compassionate, courageous and loving mother. And this journey opened her eyes and her heart to the amazing LGBT community which taught her the real meaning of unconditional love.

The Co-Sponsors

National Queer Asian and Pacific Islander Alliance

Gay Asian and Pacific Islander Men of New York

QWAVE

Center Families

For more information

Contact Glenn D. Magpantay at NQAPIA at glenn_magpantay@nqapia.org or 917-439-3158.

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Asian Queer Identities and the Left

Q-Wave — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 20:12:21 +0000

Asian Queer Identities and the Left:

GAPIMNY, SALGA, and QWAVE will jointly present on a panel at the Left Forum on Sunday, March 18, 3pm (room E324). We will discuss how efforts at lifting visibility have or have not been able to align with the left progressive movement. Participate, support, and speak your mind at the session!

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The Left Forum will be held at Pace University in Manhattan.

Registration can be done on site: $15-20

Directions: http://www.leftforum.org/directions

Panel description: http://www.leftforum.org/panel/asian-queer-identities-and-left

More on the Left Forum: http://www.leftforum.org/

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Riti Sachdeva’s Parts of Parts & Stitches

Q-Wave — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 19:59:59 +0000

SALGA, SANGAM, & Q-Wave invite you to the world premiere of:

Riti Sachdeva’s Parts of Parts & Stitches

Saturday, March 17

8:00 pm @ the Theatre at 14th St. Y (334 East 14th St.)

with post-show Conversation with Cast and Creative Team

drinks & continuing dialogue afterwards at Nowhere Bar

Featuring Sarah Baskin, Purva Bedi, Jaspal Binning, Sergei Burbank, Mariam Habib, Ashok Kumar, Bushra Laskar, Deanna McGovern, Antonio Miniño, Eric Percival, Anil Ramani, Shetal Shah, Imran W. Sheikh, and Dathan B. Williams. With George Allison (Set Design), Karen Ann Ledger (Costume Design), Carl Faber (Lighting Design), Martha Goode (Sound Design), Arooj Aftab (Composer & Singer), Gisela Fullá-Silvestre (Composer); Navdeep Tucker (Choreography), and production stage manager Sarah E. Ford. Produced by Martha Goode with associate producer Jessica Thornhill for MTWorks.

On Saturday, March 17, SALGA, SANGAM, & Q-Wave invite you to the world premiere of Riti Sachdeva’s play, PARTS OF PARTS & STITCHES, which explores the 1947 partition of British India into the nations of India, Pakistan, and later Bangladesh. The partition resulted in extreme violence and one of the largest migrations in history. Over 100,000 Hindu, Muslim, and Sikh women were raped and abducted in the Partition riots; more than 2 million Hindus, Muslims, and Sikhs were killed; some ten to twelve million migrants were uprooted and dislocated as they moved across the new borders. PARTS OF PARTS & STITCHES uses overlapping truths, histories, and the fantastic to create a space for audiences to explore and reflect upon individual and collective resilience and resistance in the face of partition. Produced by MTWorks, the play will run from March 15-31, 2012 at The Theater at 14th Street Y (334 East 14th Street between First and Second Ave). Tickets are $18 and $12 for students, seniors, and IAAC members.

After the Saturday March 17 show, SALGA, SANGAM, & Q-Wave are hosting a post-show Conversation with Cast and Creative Team. This will be an opportunity for the audience to ask the cast and crew questions about the process of putting together the play. Dialogue will continue afterwards at Nowhere Bar, 322 East 14th Street.

Part of our mission of outreach and community building is to support the work of queer South Asian artists. Riti Sachdeva’s play is a great opportunity for the SALGA, SANGAM, & Q-Wave community to support her vision in this accounting of a terrible time in our shared history. The project has particular resonance for those of the South Asian diaspora but many communities have been partitioned and continue to be partitioned. In most instances, significant efforts have been made to erase the memories of partition traumas in the larger interests of nation-building. This play gives us an opportunity to challenge the forgetting while creating spaces for a deeper understanding of our historical and contemporary struggles. Additionally, the hope is that our co-sponsorship of this event will foster meaningful connections within and between our communities.

Other special events include:

• Tuesday, March 20: post-show Talk Back on the legacy of the partitions of former British colonies, cold-war era partitions, proposed contemporary partitions, and domestic partitions/displacement within the US; with Jasbir Puar (faculty, Women’s & Gender Studies, Rutgers University/2012-2013 Edward Said Chair in American Studies at the American University in Beirut), Andrea Ritchie (police misconduct attorney, co-coordinator of Streetwise and Safe (SAS), and co-author of Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States), and Grainne O’Hara (UNHCR/UN Refugee Agency).

• Tuesday, March 27: post-show Talk Back on using the arts to engage and build communities across different geo-political contexts with Remy Kharbanda (The Vilayati Tarti/Foreign Land Project, a documentary film and oral history project based on interviews with women in West London where thousands of people from the Punjab migrated following partition), and Brownstar poet-performer Pushkar “NORTH STAR” Sharma who, with Sathya “SOUTH STAR” Sridharan, premiered their stage show FASTER THAN THE SPEED OF WHITE at the 2010 NYC International Fringe Theatre Festival and annually produce UNIFICATION, a joint celebration of the Indian and Pakistani Independence Days).

• Thursday, March 29: post-show Conversations with Cast and Creative Team and reception in collaboration with the Indo-American Arts Council.

Please follow the link to MTWorks to see a list of the cast, learn more about the show, and buy tickets online: www.mtworks.org/up-next

Riti Sachdeva’s Parts of Parts & Stitches

March 15–31 at the Theater at 14th St. Y

1947: Punjab, Northwest Frontier. For one young couple, matrimonial

bliss is violently interrupted by the ”commotion of partition.”

PARTS OF PARTS uses overlapping truths, histories, and the fantastic to

create a space for audiences to explore and reflect upon individual and

collective resilience and resistance in the face of the 1947 partition of

the subcontinent into India and Pakistan. www.mtworks.org/up-next

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March General Meeting

Q-Wave — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 19:55:39 +0000

Please join our next General Meeting 3/16!

In this month’s meeting, we shall be observing the relationships between Asian American and Western culture on homosexuality.

*Why is homosexuality tabooed within the Asian narrative?

*Was homosexuality always viewed through a negative scope in Asian Culture?

*How has Western influences alter, or form permanent fixtures of identities within the Asian context?

*Have we heard any homophobic things we heard from family or friends?

*How are our identities formed and how are we viewed by those that are not within our community?

*What are some acceptable behaviors in both Asian and Western culture that are usually deemed homosexual but can pass as harmless play?

We shall be exploring the different narratives that form hegemonic views of homosexuality within the pan-Asian and Western context. Fun and engaging group activities are also included within our agenda to help us build a better understanding of the topics we are trying to convey.

Think you’ll be hungry? Snacks and light refreshments will be served~ After the meeting we can further congregate on what we would like to eat.

Hope ya’ll can make it!

Friday, March 16, 7-9 pm
CUNY Graduate Center, 34th St. and 5th Ave.
Room 9204

DIRECTIONS: (via subway): – B, D, F, V, N, R, Q, W to 34th Street/Broadway – 6 to 33rd Street/Park Avenue and walk 2 blocks west – 1, 2, 3, 9 to 34th Street/7th Avenue (Madison Square Garden) and walk 2-3 blocks east – A, C, E to 34th Street/8th Avenue and walk 3-4 blocks east.

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** Q-Wave is a safe space dedicated to lesbian and bi-sexual women, transfolk and gender-nonconformists of Asian and PacificIslander descent; our General Meetings and Coffee Hours are open to this particular community. Q-Wave welcomes all supporters, friends and families to join our other social events (ie BBQs, picnics, parades, film screenings, etc). Please respect our space and confidentiality. Thank you very much.*

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2/17/2012 GM: Q-Wave Kick-off

Q-Wave — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 23:00:25 +0000

Hello Qwave!

Join us for the Qwave 2012 Kick-Off General Meeting on Friday, February 17th, 7-9pm. Regardless of whether you’ve been involved with Qwave for a while, or whether you’ve just heard of us recently, let’s get acquainted and/or reacquainted!

A sneak peek at our (“gay”) agenda and topics:
* Who are we, and why does Qwave exist?
* How does Qwave relate to you?
* What are our core values?
* Who’s in the room, and who is missing?
* Where does Qwave stand in the larger LGBT movement?
* We’re damn proud of all the things we’ve done over the last year and we’re even more excited about the year ahead. Find out what we’re up to and how you can get involved.

We hope you can join us for this very special interactive kick-off meeting! Drinks and light snacks will be provided and, as always, we will go out for a fun group dinner afterwards.

Friday, February 17, 7-9 pm
CUNY Graduate Center, 34th St. and 5th Ave.
Room C197

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The after meeting dinner address is:

Heavenly Bamboo Pavilion

10 E 39th St
(between 5th Ave & Madison Ave)
New York, NY 10016

** Sliding scale dinner contribution per person: $5-10 or $ 3-8 depending on how many people are coming to dinner

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** Q-Wave is a safe space dedicated to lesbian and bi-sexual women, transfolk and gender-nonconformists of Asian and PacificIslander descent; our General Meetings and Coffee Hours are open to this particular community. Q-Wave welcomes all supporters, friends and families to join our other social events (ie BBQs, picnics, parades, film screenings, etc). Please respect our space and confidentiality. Thank you very much.*

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12/16 NYC’s 2nd Annual LGBT Asian Holiday Party!

Q-Wave — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 16:45:26 +0000

It’s time for our 2nd annual Holiday Party (last year’s was HOT HOT HOT)! Come celebrate another year of successes with the LGBT Asian community.

We have a lot to celebrate this year. Together, Q-WAVE, GAPIMNY, and SALGA have increased LGBT Asian visibility in NYC and beyond. In 2011, we marched in the Lunar New Year Parade for the 2nd time, launched the Asian Pride Project to help Asian families with LGBT members, called out mainstream gay clubs for racist door policies and party themes, protested against ex-gay conversion therapy at home and abroad, launched transgender and gender non-conforming programming for the South Asian community, and much MUCH more! Let’s show our appreciation for community and action in the LGBT Asian community.

Featuring Suzanne Persard as our resident DJ with a mix of hip hop, bollywood, and reggae. Light food will be available for you late night eaters. There will also be a raffle with some great prizes.

Where: Chom Chom
40 West 56th Street, New York, NY 10019

When: Friday, Dec 16, 2011
11 PM – 3 AM

Cover Charge: $10 before midnight, $15 after

All money goes to support LGBT Asian community organizations in NYC:

QWAVE – www.q-wave.org
GAPIMNY – www.gapimny.org
SALGA – www.salganyc.org

This party is 21+. Come as you are. Allies are welcome.

Oh, and get ready to dance.

RSVP: https://www.facebook.com/events/306487332704648/

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11/18 Join us for Donation Drive!!!

qwave — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 17:21:52 +0000

Hey Q-Wavers,

Rather than holding a normal GM, our meeting this month will be a DONATION DRIVE where we are asking for people to drop by the room with donations for Housing Works (please see below for a brief description of the work Housing Works does for the NY community) and then stay for some social time, conversation & snacks!

This event is open to ALL who wish to attend keeping in mind that safe space rules still apply!

This month it will take place on Friday, November 18, 2011 from 6:30pm-8:30pm at CUNY GRAD CENTER Room 9204

The list of donate-able items includes gently used:

· men’s & women’s clothing
· children’s clothing
· shoes
· handbags & accessories
· jewelry
· housewares

Hope to see you there!!!

Cheerio,

Quail & Aileen

And for some light bathroom reading…Here’s a tidbit Housing Works:

Housing Works* is a non-profit organization based in New York City that works to end “the dual crises of homelessness and AIDS through advocacy, the provision of lifesaving services, and entrepreneurial businesses that sustain [their] efforts.” As advocates, the organization fights for the inclusion and dignity of marginalized communities including active drug users, homeless people all people living with HIV/AIDS, homeless people, and sexual minorities. They have provided services (housing, healthcare, meals, mental health/substance use treatment, job training, legal assistance, etc.) to more than 20,000 homeless and low-income NYers living with HIV/AIDS since 1990. And they also began social enterprise-businesses that provide employment opportunities to the NY community and whose profits fund the mission of Housing Works.

Visit their website for more info: http://www.housingworks.org/

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11/15/2011 “We are family!”: LGBT Asian American/ South Asian Parents & Parenting

Q-Wave — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 19:45:46 +0000

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“We are family!” (literally)

LGBT Asian American/ South Asian Parents and Parenting
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Join SALGA, GAPIMY, and QWAVE for a discussion by LGBTs who have children and the different ways they became parents. One couple through same-sex adoption, another through a sperm donor, and a third through a prior heterosexual marriage.

The presenters will talk frankly about their personal experiences, joys and struggles of parenting, family acceptance, making mom and dad grandparents, negotiating who is “daddy” or “mommy,” issues of race, and broader community acceptance. At the end of the program, an attorney will briefly go over the nuts, bolts, and legal options for individuals and couples who want to start a family.

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Tuesday, November 15, 2011
6pm to 8pm
LGBT Center in Manhattan
208 West 13th Street, between 7th and 8th Avenues.

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The families:

Sunyoo Kim and Agnes Harley, and with their 2 year old daughter Kai Seong-Ah Kim

Glenn Magpantay and Christopher Goeken, and their 5 year old son Malcolm.

Karen Naimool and Jennifer Griffith, and their 8 year old son Jadon

Sponsored by South Asian Gay & Lesbian Association (SALGA), QWAVE, and the Gay Asian and Pacific Islander Men of New York (GAPIMNY), and the LGBT Center Families Program.

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