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  <pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 05:57:43 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Hi fellow Hapas!</title>
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  <description>I just created a community for discussions and activities.  I wanted somewhere to talk about race and gender and sexuality and all the different ways that parts of identity interact... as well as anything else that&apos;s fun or interesting.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It&apos;s got &quot;stamping&quot; but just for fun.  This is not a rating community.  It&apos;s a way to get to know other people and have more stuff to do on livejournal.  I hope it&apos;s ok that I&apos;m posting this here.  I just really want to get it off the ground!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.livejournal.com/users/thedinnercrowd&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b321/OedipusUMF/The%20Dinner%20Crowd/eatalonegirl.gif&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span  class=&quot;ljuser  i-ljuser     &quot;  lj:user=&quot;thedinnercrowd&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://thedinnercrowd.livejournal.com/profile&quot; &gt;&lt;img width=&quot;16&quot; height=&quot;16&quot;  class=&quot;i-ljuser-userhead&quot;  src=&quot;http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif?v=104.2&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://thedinnercrowd.livejournal.com/&quot; class=&quot;i-ljuser-username&quot;   &gt;&lt;b&gt;thedinnercrowd&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;...A discussion &amp; activities community.</description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2005 13:44:44 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>hi everyone, i just joined the community so thought i&apos;d do a quick intro...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;my name is sabrina, i&apos;m 21, half japanese and half scottish, born &amp; raised in vancouver currently living in toronto canada. to be honest, i&apos;m kind of confused about my sexuality right now. i&apos;ve dated both women and men, although currently i feel myself being more attracted to women.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;anyway, i&apos;m looking forward to contributing to the community and all that jazz!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;xo</description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 27 Feb 2005 02:10:23 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>SO... any mixed-race or multiracial people out there?  or people who are transnationally or transracially abducted?  who also happen to fall into the realm of genderqueer or trans?  and are queer/bisexual/pansexual?  yeah?  yeah?  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;im presenting a paper at the Lewis and Clark College Gender Studies Symposium and MY piece is roughly about the fluidity of race, gender, sexuality, etc.  part of my thinking and deduction of my own experiences is that mixed race people have to recognize the fluidity of race from the very beginning of their introduction to society and this causes for refusal to fall into polar identities whether it be sexual or gender orientation.  some people have already written about queer mixed race people, the stuff i&apos;ve seen being hapa-oriented.  i want to delve into gender and genderqueer-ness and not only consider hapas but mestizos, mulattos, mixes of all sorts.  i also want to look at transnationally and transracially abducted issues as an extension of this paper, as well as issues with (dis)ability.  i would really like to send a few questions over to people who fall into these areas and would be willing to talk about their own personal experiences with the intersections of their identities.  if you are interested in being a part of this, please email me (Sumi) at soulinmyfist@yahoo.com with &quot;LEWIS AND CLARK PAPER&quot; in the subject line.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;thanks so much!  &amp;lt;3 &amp;lt;3 &amp;lt;3</description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 16 Feb 2005 11:25:47 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>SAT FEB 19 * Trans/Giving * Special Benefit Show for Sri Lankan Tsunami Victims</title>
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  <description>if any of my queer hapas are out and about in the la area this weekend, you should come to trans/giving and say hi to me!  ill probably be mcing or running around like a supposed important organizer is supposed to do :D&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name=&quot;cutid1&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v289/soulinmyfist/transgiving/flyer.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name=&apos;cutid1-end&apos;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Trans/Giving &lt;br /&gt;Special Benefit Show—Helping the Tsunami Victims of Sri Lanka &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;West Hollywood, CA: Trans/Giving, a showcase and display of art, music, performance, and literature from trans/genderqueer/intersex artists, holds a special benefit show on Saturday February 19, at 7pm at Great Hall in Plummer Park, located at 7377 Santa Monica Blvd. near Santa Monica and Martel. All proceeds will go to Aide To Sri Lankan Tsunami Victims (ATSLTV). &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our lineup features music from Jake Tatton and Heather Huff, photography from s.g. reichen, poetry from Beth Pietrzak and ryka aoki de la cruz, a film from Chris Vargas, and a performance by seeley quest. ATSLTV representative Karla Zombro will be there with photos and updates on the recent developments in Sri Lanka. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For this benefit, Trans/Giving thanks the artists, the West Hollywood Transgender Task Force, and especially the TGIF (Trans/Genderqueer/Intersex/Friends) community for their generosity, time, and love.  Doors open at 6:30pm. Suggested donation is $5-20 but please give what you can to help those who have nothing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;FMI: www.transgiving.org</description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 23 Jan 2005 19:40:25 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>so, this has been on my mind and i would like to hear some responses from other queer mixed race folk...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;how as queer mixed race people do we navigate through politics and the world of activism?  or even academia?  are there any queer mixed race activist groups that are organizing?  i haven&apos;t seen any and i&apos;m just wondering what people think about that.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;i used to work for a queer Asian/Pacific Islander non-profit organization and was told once by the ED, my supervisor, that the issues hapas face are secondary and separate to the issues APIs face... that shit really bothered me because I thought I was part of the &quot;queer API community&quot; and I thought that issues I face would be similar to other queer hapas and that it would be important to address and to work with other mixed race groups.  a queer poc group would more likely to address issues multiracials face (or so you would think) rather than a general lgbt organization.  and there are queer people of color non-profits/community orgs/groups out there, but i was interested in mobilizing a queer mixed race group but i was questioning how effective that would be and even wondering what the point was.  what are the most striking issues a queer multiracial faces?  there are so many different experiences... what are our commonalities with such fluid identities falling between the binaries of race, sexuality, and gender?  do we even have specific issues or do we always separate our experiences even though our identities are so fluid and really cannot be kept from intersecting?  how is this different from &quot;full-blooded&quot; poc queers (well, we know NO ONE is truly full-blooded)?  do people know of any anthologies or books specifically on queer multiracial experiences?  anyone interested in working on related projects?  where do we fit in all this?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;looking forward to hearing what people have to say :)</description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 23 Jan 2005 11:21:36 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>where are the other freakin queer hapas?  EH?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;my name is Sumi.  i&apos;m a trans/gender/queer multiracial Japanese-Hawai&apos;ian-German-Irish-English-French-Russian-etc American... blah blah.  i live in the Los Angeles area... im a student/wannabe academic...musician...artist...activist...etc... just seein where everyone&apos;s at?  whas crackin?</description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2004 00:02:52 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Hey, everybody!</title>
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  <description>I&apos;m Chel. I&apos;m 15 different nationalities, mostly European, but some Native American. And I&apos;m queer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway,...&lt;br /&gt;Please check out: &lt;span  class=&quot;ljuser  i-ljuser     &quot;  lj:user=&quot;_queer_teens_&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://community.livejournal.com/_queer_teens_/profile&quot; &gt;&lt;img width=&quot;16&quot; height=&quot;16&quot;  class=&quot;i-ljuser-userhead&quot;  src=&quot;http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif?v=104.2&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://community.livejournal.com/_queer_teens_/&quot; class=&quot;i-ljuser-username&quot;   &gt;&lt;b&gt;_queer_teens_&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It&apos;s for &lt;b&gt;queer&lt;/b&gt; &lt;font size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;(every [nonheterosexual] sexual and gender orientation)&lt;/font&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;u&gt;AND&lt;/u&gt; &lt;b&gt;allied&lt;/b&gt; &lt;font size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;(that means &quot;straight, but not narrow&quot; [-minded, that is])&lt;/font&gt; &lt;br /&gt;teens (under 21... for now, at least). &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;4&quot;&gt;Please at least read the userinfo before you pass it over - this is a chance to get all the queer and allied teens on lj together... and who knows what we could do!&lt;/font&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Feel free to spread the word! &lt;br /&gt;&amp;hearts; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Note: This is in the process of being x-posted where ever I can... If the maintainer(s) think it inappropriate, feel free to delete the entry. I&apos;ll understand. :)</description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2004 17:56:36 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>CA Bay Area People -- Check it out!</title>
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  <description>&lt;font face=&quot;Courier New&quot;&gt;BE PART OF HISTORY!&lt;br&gt;COME OUT AND SUPPORT THE FIRST EVER &lt;br&gt;ASIANS &amp;amp; ALLIES FOR MARRIAGE EQUALITY RALLY!&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Speakers include MABEL TENG (City Assessor-General), TOM AMMIANO (Board of&lt;br&gt;Supervisors), PROF. JEFFREY KUAN (Pacific School of Religion), REV. PENNY&lt;br&gt;NIXON (MCC), REV. MYO DENIS LEAHY (Hartford Street Zen Center), and more.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;***Marriage Equality Now!***&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Rally in Support of Same-Sex Marriage&lt;br&gt;Join us on Sunday, August 8 &lt;br&gt;for &quot;Summer of Love 2004&quot;&lt;br&gt;11:30 am to 1:30 pm&lt;br&gt;Larsen Park (19th Avenue &amp;amp; Wawona) &lt;br&gt;in San Francisco&apos;s Sunset district&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;****************&lt;br&gt;The conservatives are organizing AGAINST marriage equality. This year in&lt;br&gt;California alone, the conservatives have staged anti-marriage equality&lt;br&gt;demonstrations of 7,000 people in San Francisco and 5,000 in Alhambra. We must&lt;br&gt;do our part to organize FOR marriage equality. Help us get 1,000 supporters to&lt;br&gt;attend the August 8 rally to support marriage equality.&lt;br&gt;****************&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Times New Roman&quot;&gt;&lt;a name=&quot;cutid1&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;ASIANS &amp;amp; ALLIES FOR MARRIAGE EQUALITY&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;LEAD MEMBERS&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Gay Asian Pacific Alliance&lt;br&gt;Asian &amp;amp; Pacific Islander Wellness Center,&lt;br&gt;Equality California/Marriage Equality California&lt;br&gt;Asian Pacific American Coalition for Equality&lt;br&gt;National Center for Lesbian Rights&lt;br&gt;Asian Pacific Islander Queer Women &amp;amp; Transgender Coalition &lt;br&gt;Human Rights Campaign &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;MEMBERS&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;ACLU of Northern California&lt;br&gt;American Friends Service Committee (Quakers)&lt;br&gt;API Action&lt;br&gt;API Family Pride&lt;br&gt;Asian &amp;amp; Friends (Washington)&lt;br&gt;Asian &amp;amp; Pacific Islander Lesbian, Bisexual Women&apos;s and Transgender Network&lt;br&gt;(APLBTN)&lt;br&gt;Asian American Bar Association &lt;br&gt;Asian Law Caucus&lt;br&gt;Asian Lesbian Bisexual Alliance of Seattle (ALBA)&lt;br&gt;Asian Pacific AIDS Intervention Team (APAIT)&lt;br&gt;Asian Pacific American Legal Center (APALC)&lt;br&gt;

Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center (APICC)&lt;br&gt;Asian Pacific Islander Pride Council&lt;br&gt;Asian Pacific Islander Queer Sisters (APIQS)&lt;br&gt;Asian/Pacific Islander Queers United for Action (AQUA - Washington DC)&lt;br&gt;Asian/Pacific Islander Unitarian Universalists&lt;br&gt;Association of Gay and Lesbian Psychiatrists (AGLP)&lt;br&gt;Barangay - Los Angeles Filipino LGBT group&lt;br&gt;Bay Area Community of Women&lt;br&gt;Bay Area Immigrant Rights Coalition &lt;br&gt;Buddhist Peace Fellowship&lt;br&gt;Cal Queer &amp;amp; Asian&lt;br&gt;Children of Lesbians &amp;amp; Gays Everywhere (COLAGE)&lt;br&gt;Chinese Rainbow Association&lt;br&gt;Chinese for Affirmative Action&lt;br&gt;Community United Against Violence (CUAV)&lt;br&gt;Congregation Sha&apos;ar Zahav &lt;br&gt;California Freedom to Marry Coalition&lt;br&gt;Dignity San Francisco&lt;br&gt;Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD)&lt;br&gt;Gay and Lesbian Medical Association&lt;br&gt;Gay Asian Pacific Islander Men of New York (GAPIMNY)&lt;br&gt;Gay Asian Pacific Support Network (GAPSN-LA)&lt;br&gt;Gay Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN)&lt;br&gt;Gay Vietnamese Alliance&lt;br&gt;Honor Thy Children&lt;br&gt;Immigration Equality San Francisco&lt;br&gt;International Socialist Organization&lt;br&gt;Kearny Street Workshop &lt;br&gt;Khush DC&lt;br&gt;L.A. Gay and Lesbian Center&lt;br&gt;Lambda Legal&lt;br&gt;Massachusetts APIs (MAP) for Health&lt;br&gt;MOTHRA (Ann Arbor, Michigan)&lt;br&gt;National Asian Pacific American Women&apos;s Forum (NAPAWF - Washington DC)&lt;br&gt;National Asian Pacific Legal Consortium (NAPALC)&lt;br&gt;National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF)&lt;br&gt;National Korean American Service &amp;amp; Education Consortium (NAKASEC)&lt;br&gt;New Leaf Services for the Community&lt;br&gt;OASIS&lt;br&gt;Our Family Coalition&lt;br&gt;PACTS - GRACE&lt;br&gt;PFLAG - Los Angeles API chapter&lt;br&gt;PFLAG - Northern California Chinese chapter&lt;br&gt;Queer Asian Pacific Alliance (QAPA - Boston &amp;amp; New England)&lt;br&gt;Queer Asian Spirit&lt;br&gt;San Francisco LGBT Center &lt;br&gt;Satrang - South Asian group of Los Angeles&lt;br&gt;South Bay Queer &amp;amp; Asian (SBQA)&lt;br&gt;St. Francis Lutheran Church&lt;br&gt;Trikone&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Media sponsor: Bay Area Reporter &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;For more information, go to www.gapa.org&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2004 17:29:28 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>Please forward widely.  Thanks!&lt;br /&gt;Are you...&lt;br /&gt;        * In need of money to help pay for your education?&lt;br /&gt;        * Asian or Pacific Islander (A&amp;PI)?&lt;br /&gt;        * Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or questioning&lt;br /&gt;(LGBTQQ)?&lt;br /&gt;        * 22 years old or younger?&lt;br /&gt;        * Living in the San Francisco Bay Area (Alameda, Contra Costa,&lt;br /&gt;Marin, Napa, Santa Clara, Solano, Sonoma, San Francisco or San Mateo&lt;br /&gt;county)?&lt;br /&gt;        * A high school senior, high school graduate, have your GED or&lt;br /&gt;attending college? If you answered &quot;yes&quot; to all of the above, the Queer&lt;br /&gt;Asian &amp; Pacific Islander PRIDE Scholarship is for YOU! Edward Cheng &lt;br /&gt;Ming Tang, a generous and conscientious Chinese gay man, wishes to help you &lt;br /&gt;to achieve educational pursuits and dreams, proudly and without shame. In&lt;br /&gt;partnership with Peninsula Community Foundation, this education fund &lt;br /&gt;awards scholarships totaling $16,000 to deserving applicants, with the goal of&lt;br /&gt;eradicating the isolation, invisibility, homophobia and heterosexism &lt;br /&gt;faced by thousands of A&amp;PI queer and questioning youth in the Bay Area and &lt;br /&gt;beyond.&lt;br /&gt;To apply, please download an application:&lt;br /&gt;www.apiwellness.org/v20/youth/application.html&lt;br /&gt;Application Process:&lt;br /&gt;The application process consists of two parts. The first part&lt;br /&gt;included questions for you to answer. The second part included a &lt;br /&gt;creative project.&lt;br /&gt;Send in or drop off the application with your creative artwork &lt;br /&gt;by May 31, 2004 at 5 p.m. via mail or in person.&lt;br /&gt;        Attn: Sabrina Wu&lt;br /&gt;        Queer A&amp;PI Pride Scholarship&lt;br /&gt;        Asian &amp; Pacific Islander Wellness Center&lt;br /&gt;        730 Polk Street, 4th Floor&lt;br /&gt;        San Francisco, CA 94109&lt;br /&gt;                The application form and artwork becomes the property &lt;br /&gt;of Asian &amp; Pacific Islander Wellness Center and will not be returned. Your&lt;br /&gt;artwork may be used for publicity purposes.&lt;br /&gt;        If you are feeling stuck or have questions on how to fill out &lt;br /&gt;the application form, just contact Sabrina at&lt;br /&gt;        sabrina@apiwellness.org or call 415.292.3420 x315. Selection&lt;br /&gt;Process: A selection committee including A&amp;PI LGBTQQ youth and adults &lt;br /&gt;review the applications and select scholarship recipients. We establish a new&lt;br /&gt;selection committee for each year. Selection factors included the&lt;br /&gt;following: financial need, personal and societal challenges, creativity &lt;br /&gt;and originality, community involvement or the imagining of a queer A&amp;PI&lt;br /&gt;community. Each year, the selection committee comes up with the range &lt;br /&gt;of award amounts. For the year 2003, the committee decided to give awards&lt;br /&gt;ranging from $1,000 to $5,000. If you have any questions or want to get &lt;br /&gt;a head start, please contact Sabrina Wu at sabrina@apiwellness.org. &lt;br /&gt;Sabrina Wu&lt;br /&gt;AQU25A Program Coordinator Asian &amp; Pacific Islander Wellness Center 730 &lt;br /&gt;Polk&lt;br /&gt;Street, 4th Floor San Francisco, CA 94109-7813 www.apiwellness.org Tel.&lt;br /&gt;292-3420, x315 TTY 292-3410 Fax 292-3404</description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2004 23:03:15 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Ok</title>
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  <description>HI people. Creator/Moderator here. I have selected none other than the finest source for GLBT news/activism &lt;span  class=&quot;ljuser  i-ljuser     &quot;  lj:user=&quot;angryasiangrrl&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://angryasiangrrl.livejournal.com/profile&quot; &gt;&lt;img width=&quot;16&quot; height=&quot;16&quot;  class=&quot;i-ljuser-userhead&quot;  src=&quot;http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=104.2&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://angryasiangrrl.livejournal.com/&quot; class=&quot;i-ljuser-username&quot;   &gt;&lt;b&gt;angryasiangrrl&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; as co=mod/maintainer. Regarding all the recent issues that have been coming up lately, (( i.e. same sex marriages, laws prohibiting them, election 2004, pride month etc)) I am curious to see everyone&apos; stand/viewpoint on these issues. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And I realzed that the hapa mafia does have some standing in the livejournal world. hmmm...let&apos;s get this place rocking people. june is pride month and it&apos;s only three weeks away.</description>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 01 May 2004 19:43:27 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>INTRO - I am new.</title>
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  <description>Hello!  My name is Kristy.  I&apos;ll be 25 in a month.  I am half Chinese, half white, queer, and femme.  I&apos;m single, and really comfortable being so.  I am a grad student in Women&apos;s Studies, and I&apos;m doing my M.A. project on As-Ams.</description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2004 23:19:03 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>howdy!</title>
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  <description>Came across this community by accident, but hey, I&apos;m half Chinese, half White and gay as hell, so why not join... right?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rock on.</description>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2004 16:27:57 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Everyone here&apos;s queer and mixed, right? :)</title>
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  <description>Note: This is cross-posted on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.livejournal.com/community/queerpoc/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Queer People of Color&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.livejournal.com/community/arabs/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Arabs&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.livejournal.com/community/queerdesis/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;South Asian Queers&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.livejournal.com/community/gayasian/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Gay Asians&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.livejournal.com/community/halfasians/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Half Asians&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.livejournal.com/community/asian_american/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;About Asian Americans&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.livejournal.com/community/metisian/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Of Mixed Asian Persuasian&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.livejournal.com/community/pardesi/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Islamic Sexuality&lt;/a&gt;.  Even if you&apos;re not interested, please pass this on to anyone who might be.  Thanks.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My name is Justin Leroy, and I’m a film student at Wesleyan University.  I’ll be doing research for my thesis documentary this summer, and I’m writing because you or members of your organization might be interested in participating in my project.&lt;br /&gt;   &lt;br /&gt;The research is built around my interest in the relationship between multiracial identity and queer identity.  Because LGBTQ communities, which are often primarily white, can be very isolating even for monoracial people of color, a queer multiracial Asian-descent individual may face unique problems and complexities in terms of racial identity formation.  I believe that multiracial people can and do actively influence the way they are perceived, which sometimes gives them more ‘racial mobility’ than monoracial Asians.  While having such an option can be a significant privilege, the ethnic ambiguity of mixed race Asians might also draw them into unwanted racial identifications determined by their sexual identity or practices.  In my project, I plan to identify and examine some of these potential issues and hypothesize their greater implications for the way we think about multiracial Asian identity.&lt;br /&gt;   &lt;br /&gt;For example, is a Chinese-white lesbian more likely to be seen as merely white than her straight counterpart because of the presumed whiteness of lesbian identity?  Is a Black-Filipino gay man more likely to call himself mixed or Asian because of the desirability of such an “exotic” identity to white men?  Would he be more likely to identify as just Black if he were heterosexual?  After coming out, if an Indian-Mexican woman is disowned by her father, who is her only connection to Indian culture, does it affect her Asian identity?&lt;br /&gt;	&lt;br /&gt;My research will consist of individual and group interviews, both filmed.  You may participate in either or both, and participation does not mean you must consent to having your interview included in the finished film.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To participate, you must meet three criteria:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1) Not be strictly heterosexual, either in identity or practice.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2) Be multiracial, meaning you have parents of two different races, two parents who are multiracial, or have parents who are of very different ethnicities within the same racial group (such as Japanese and Indian or Iranian and Thai).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3) Be Asian-identified.  This includes not only East and Southeast Asian, but also South Asian, Central Asian, and West Asian (Middle Eastern).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I’m looking for underrepresented groups, such as non-East Asians, those who do not have a white parent, and people who live or grew up outside of the US, in particular.  However everyone who meets the above requirements is more than welcome to participate.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you are interested in participating, please e-mail me at jleroy@wesleyan.edu.  I’d also be happy to hear any questions, comments, or suggestions.</description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2004 18:04:01 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>*preforms CRP on community*</description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2004 17:57:21 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>queer asian conference</title>
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  <description>i dont know if this has already been mentioned here.  but this is a conference in march in nyc about queer asian stuff.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;www.queerasianpacificlegacy.org&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;i think i&apos;m gonna be there.  even tho i normally dont like conferences, it might be worth checking out.  plus, its free, and the keynote performer, reggie cabico, is a pretty cool poet.</description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2004 22:07:29 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>hello my people :) i am reading this book called &quot;restoried selves: autobiographies of queer asian/pacific american activists&quot;. it made me think of this community (awwwww). anyway, this one author, wei ming dariotis, is hapa and bisexual and a professor at sfsu. she has a website with a &lt;a href=&quot;http://online.sfsu.edu/~dariotis/resources.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;resource page&lt;/a&gt;, which has &lt;a href=&quot;http://online.sfsu.edu/~dariotis/resources/hapasandmixedheritage/websites.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;a great list of websites on hapas and mixed hertiage&lt;/a&gt;, among other things. check it out. there is some cool shit there.&amp;nbsp;and when you are done&amp;nbsp;being all intellectual, you can play the&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://mavin.net/conference/game.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;what are you?&quot; game&lt;/a&gt;. good times. &amp;nbsp;</description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2004 00:48:13 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Wow...</title>
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  <description>Hello people! This community is so dead.....sorry about that, I guess as mod I should welcome everyone who has joined so far. &lt;br /&gt;And special thanks to &lt;span  class=&quot;ljuser  i-ljuser     &quot;  lj:user=&quot;angryasiangrrl&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://angryasiangrrl.livejournal.com/profile&quot; &gt;&lt;img width=&quot;16&quot; height=&quot;16&quot;  class=&quot;i-ljuser-userhead&quot;  src=&quot;http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=104.2&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://angryasiangrrl.livejournal.com/&quot; class=&quot;i-ljuser-username&quot;   &gt;&lt;b&gt;angryasiangrrl&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; for her bold efforts to make conversation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway, I do fully intend to move foward with this community, because after all, I started it in the first place. And secondly, more people are becoming aware of it, and we should say something to be more....active...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Again welcome new members! Thanks for your interest and joining, and here&apos;s a topic to discuss:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;If you are of Chinese background, does Chiense new year have a significant meaning for you?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*smattering of applause*</description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2004 04:27:31 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>community...</title>
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  <description>Yo&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I wanted to try and get the juices flowing in this community since there doesn&apos;t seem to be so much activity, at least since I joined...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So I was wondering, how do y&apos;all define &apos;community&apos; or even &apos;in-group&apos; or &apos;one of your own.&apos;  I mean, its not like queer hapas grow on trees.  We can&apos;t just decide to join some sort of social or support group (i dont think...if one exists in real life i&apos;d be interested, hehe).  So what does that mean?  Does community mean any group of hapas?  Any Asians?  Any queer asians?  Does the fact that its hard to find people like us discourage you?  Make you feel unique?  Flawed? Happy?  Sad?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I guess I&apos;ll ask a second question in the same post, even though its only somewhat related.  Do you think there&apos;s special significance is queer multiracial people being able to disrupt _both_ racial and sexual societal expectations in a single body?  Does this fact take on special significance in your life, or the way you see yourself?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&apos;m interested in hearing everyone&apos;s answers...or really anything about either community or the intersection of race and sexuality (but i&apos;ll say now i&apos;m not one of those people that believes like all multiracial people are queer just because they&apos;re multiracial). I&apos;ll post my own thoughts tomorrow or later in the week when i don&apos;t have like...lots of classes :(</description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2004 17:27:47 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>introduction</title>
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  <description>Hi everyone!  I&apos;m a new member.  I found this site when I was doing research for my thesis, and I was really surprised to find out that there were like online communities for queer multiracial people.  I&apos;m happy to be here.</description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2003 06:29:13 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Bi Poly Identity Development Study up for a few more weeks</title>
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  <description>Hi folks,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The survey on the identity development of people who are both bisexual and polyamorous will be up on the web for a few more weeks (official end date is Dec 21, 2003). If you haven&apos;t yet participated in the study and would like to, it&apos;s here:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://www.thesane.com/bipolysurvey/&apos;&gt;http://www.thesane.com/bipolysurvey/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Feel free to pass word about the study to other people and forums. Anyone who is bisexual, polyamorous, and 18 or over is welcome to participate.</description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2003 16:15:28 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>hey y&apos;all. i posted this on my personal journal, too.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;i&apos;m doing a survey to satisfy my own curiosity, and making a chart to go along with the results. if you could answer in my personal journal that would be *awesome* - easier for me because then all the answers would be in one place.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;also, if one or both of your parents is asian, could you let me know which one it is? and did you have a mongolian birthmark when you born? (i did but it was faded, not like a full asian would normally have.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. how tall are you&lt;br /&gt;2. how tall is/was your biological mother&lt;br /&gt;3. how tall is/was your biological father&lt;br /&gt;4. how much did you weigh when you were born&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;me:&lt;br /&gt;1. 5&apos;3&lt;br /&gt;2. 5&apos;1&lt;br /&gt;3. 6&apos;3&lt;br /&gt;4. 9.5 lbs</description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2003 11:19:43 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Hello</title>
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  <description>I just joined this group.  Looking forward to reading postings from you all...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hey, wait, the last posting was in July?!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hmm, maybe I shouldn&apos;t get too invested, then...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Halon</description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2003 05:07:12 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>Hi everyone, &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is a cool community! Thanks to poptizzy for telling me about it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;lets see to introduce myself.. &lt;br /&gt;My mom is Scottish/English, and my dad is Japanese. &lt;br /&gt;I grew up in Japan, and moved to the states when I was 7. &lt;br /&gt;I&apos;m bi, but married. My husband is half cherokee and half white.. I think we are going to have a lot to share with our children about cultural identity :) &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Languages.. I&apos;m fluent in English and Japanese. I&apos;m also a singer/songwriter, and sing in both languages.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I guess white people think I look asian and asian people think I look white.. I&apos;ve always been kinda at odds with my appearance and identity.. but the older I get the more comfortable I become with both worlds..&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As far as coming out to my parents.. there was a time when I was involved with a woman for several years.. and I wanted to, but just couldn&apos;t.&lt;br /&gt;My Japanese dad will probably never know. I think it would break his heart. It is hard enough for him to deal with the fact that I am not married to a Japanese man..kinda hypocritical of him I guess..considering.. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Do you guys ever have problems with expectation from your asian families?</description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2003 23:46:53 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>well my identity formation has been hectic and interesting...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;i was born in berkeley, raised in east oakland for my early childhood... being mexican and chinese... well all that in a nutshell you&apos;ve got: traditional catholic mexican grandma, family thanksgivings where we all made tamales together, grew up with mexican blankets and murals on the walls, chinese dad did the cooking and we had a lot of traditional chinese food, chinese banquets for distant family members, working class black neighborhood, my dad was an activist and had ties to the black panthers, i went to sunday black panther brunches at a local church, and i was going to a private school that was mostly white but pretty diverse (main thing there was class boundaries rather than race)...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and it was all normal to me... for a while...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;my parents divorced, and i ended up with my mom and we moved around a lot (me, my mom, my brother, and sometimes her boyfriend)... leaving the bay area, i spent a summer living in a middle eastern ghetto in detroit, then a rural white as white can get town in the woods in connecticut, a white suburb there, then back to cali living in a primarily armenian part of glendale, then filipino and mexican neighborhoods in LA, then back to oakland (same place, moved in with dad for a while), then back to LA but a predominantly white hood but a stone&apos;s throw from the old hoods, and finally to san francisco...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;but i did over the years end up having to find some sort of identity... in LA, i could identify with the chinese in school, but they were mostly middle upper class... also identified with the mexicans... but on the same note, neither really totally accepted me... i wasn&apos;t mexican enough for the chicanos, and i wasn&apos;t chinese enough for the chinese... i ended up hanging out mostly with the flips, cuz for the most part they didn&apos;t give a shit and i looked more like them than anyone else there... although i was never fully accepted by them either... so in the end i was just this racial misfit, like shrtkid5 said, a chameleon... i ran with different groups at different times depending on what i felt like doing... and i spent a lot of time alone too.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;san francisco was a whole new bag for me... the racial groups here were even more exclusive... the asians were kinda broken up into three groups: the bookworms, the fobs/gangsters, and the popular kids... while i had friends who were any and all of those, i didn&apos;t really fit in... there weren&apos;t many chicanos at my school, and those who were stuck to eachother, i didn&apos;t really fit in with them at all, though i got along with some of them pretty well... then you had the black kids who mainly stuck together... and the white kids who just seemed to blend in with everything lol... oh yeah, and then there were the jocks and the rotc kids...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;out in limbo, and just dealing with all the years of moving and stuff, i ended up spending most of my time with the stoner/rocker kids who were mostly white working class, a couple others...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;so, well identity has been a strange thing indeed for me... and bringing sexuality into it, and class, and gender, spirituality, etc... playing in and out of all these areas over the years i delved into identity as much as i could...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;even tried to create an individual major while i was in college that focused on &quot;identity as the root of all conflict&quot;... i didn&apos;t get the go ahead tho cuz they&apos;d shelved the individual major program a few years before i entered school... but i built my coursework around identity and conflict and conflict resolution kinda stuff... not really gearing towards any career, but jut cuz that&apos;s what i had really gotten into at the time... and that&apos;s pretty much how i see things...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;identity of any kind... it&apos;s all just a socio-historical construct... and being socio-historical beings, we impose identity upon ourselves and others in almost every aspect of our lives...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;people like us have a much easier time seeing that and seeing how things work in this world simply because we&apos;re socially fractured people... and i mean that in a good way :)... and more than just with being hapa, but being queer as well... we have inherit knowledge of the true fluidity in things... very much a zen thing haha... in that before identity there is only self, and that is all that matters...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ok... think i&apos;m done for the time being lol... should stop now anyway before i start babbling incoherently or travelling off on some crazy tangents... cheers!</description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2003 20:10:36 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Since our newest member seconded it....</title>
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  <description>I&apos;ll ask our other (2) members and anyone else who happens to join....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Being that all of us aren&apos;t heterosexual (( 100% in some cases)) who else favors the reconstructing of this community into a gay/lesbian/bisexual/tranny/queer hapa community?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You know what, I&apos;ll take that as a yes. ^_^&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And in the celebration of pride month, week and weekend, I&apos;ll post a picture of my alter-ego posing as the late, great, talented, Lisa *Left Eye* Lopes*&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name=&quot;cutid1&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.paperwater.net/emma/lefteye2.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;yes, this is actually me...and I love Left Eye.</description>
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