Sign the Petition Asking the CDC to Remove its HPV Vaccination Mandate on Immigrants!
Dear Friends: Please sign the petition to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) asking it to reverse the newly imposed Human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination mandate for immigrant women and girls. To view and sign the petition, go to http://www.petitiononline.com/napawf/petition.html. As you may know, the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) in 2007 [...]
Family Immigration Law: It’s Broke So Let’s Fix It
By Tuyet G. Duong Our life’s work is more fulfilling when it connects deeply into our own personal lives. As an immigration advocate, I find that these days, I connect everything to my recent and emerging motherhood and my deepest emotions as a wife and a daughter-in-law. In keeping with the Asian American tradition, my [...]
Interview with Mallika Dutt
By Dinah Chung, Grace Lee, and Dawn Philip Mallika Dutt is the Founder and Executive Director of Breakthrough, an international human rights organization using innovative high impact education, media and popular culture to transform communities and bring about social change. Mallika has authored several articles and essays and is the recipient of numerous awards including [...]
Interview with Lora Jo Foo
By Grace Lee and Dawn Philip Lora Jo Foo is the author of Asian American Women: Issues, Concerns, and Responsive Human and Civil Rights Advocacy and most recently, Earth Passages. She is a native of San Francisco, born and raised in the city’s Chinatown. From the age of 11, Lora worked as a garment worker. [...]
Interview with Cindy Domingo
By Callista Bevans Cindy Domingo began working for social justice as a college student. She helped lead solidarity movements on the University of Washington campus against the dictatorship of the Marcos family in the Philippines. Cindy is a NAPAWF founding sister and has been active in many social justice organizations in and around Seattle. In [...]
Interview with Helen Zia
By Bonnie Chan Helen Zia is an activist, journalist, writer, and NAPAWF founding sister. She was born in New Jersey in 1952 and graduated with Princeton University’s first female graduating class before becoming a community organizer and award-winning journalist, as well as executive editor of Ms. Magazine. She is the author of Asian American Dreams: [...]
Interview with Grace Lee Boggs
By Dinah Chung, Grace Lee, and Dawn Philip Grace Lee Boggs is an activist, writer, and speaker whose sixty years of political involvement include working in the Labor, Civil Rights, Black Power, Asian American, Women’s and Environmental Justice movements. Grace is deeply connected to Detroit, Michigan, where she has lived for the past fifty years [...]
Bodilyharm
By Consistent Transition So I’m talking to this pseudo-suitor today and he tells me about people who interdate (AKA “Internet Date”). Apparently, some guys freak out about “angle shots” where women (“fat” women) post photos of themselves that make them look “thin” so when they go on their actual date the guy is devastated because [...]
Looking at the World Through the Eyes of a Robot
By Dinah Chung, NAPAWF Law Intern Pixar has done it again and captivated the hearts of a mass audience. Wall-E is a strikingly poignant movie that not only entertains but educates, as well. With an environmental consciousness as the movie’s backdrop, this little hero embodies a loud and simple message: one person can make a [...]
Vegetarians of Color!
By Grace Lee, NAPAWF law intern Deciding to become a vegetarian was not a difficult choice for me, after learning about the cruelty of slaughterhouses, farms, and animal testing. I found it fairly easy to alter my favorite recipes to be vegetarian. I receive negative reactions sometimes, but most people respect my decision. Something that [...]
