Dear Friends,
As some of you know, this past year I’ve started organizing with the local National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum (NAPAWF) chapter here in New York City. For those in the city, that either means I’ve missed hangouts for national conference calls, invited you to events, or posted about issues that impact the Asian/Asian American/Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander communities here and nationally. For others, this is the first time I’m reaching out in a long time.
This past year has been wild. We’ve done work fighting against the “public charge” rule change, which would punish immigrants for accessing public benefits, pushing the New York City Council to stand up against racist sex-selective abortion bans that use stereotypes about the A/AA/NH/PI communities as an excuse, growing tenfold in our membership base and having regular events with 30 attendees on average, and fighting to expand healthcare access to all immigrants regardless of their status.
I’m reaching out because if you support me, our work locally, our work across the US, then please donate for our annual fundraiser here! If you believe healthcare is a human right, reproductive healthcare is basic healthcare, and/or racism, sexism, classism, xenophobia are terrible, then please donate.
I’ll be following up to explain more about the work we’ve been doing. If you’re in the NYC area, consider coming to celebrate at our annual fundraiser/party on Oct 24th at Mood Ring in Bushwick! It’s open to the public and we’re raffling off some rad prizes. If you’re not (or temporarily not, like me), then consider sharing the link with your NYC friends!
