RAID

02/07/2019

A letter to the RISD community following the closing reception for "In the Mood for Love"

CW: mentions of sexual harassment/assault

01/15/2019

Have a recipe to share?

RAID (RISD Asian Intersections + Diaspora) is publishing a zine this spring that includes student submissions of home recipes to share with the RISD community.

Google Forms link way below:

The Diaspora Cookbook is a collection of memories of those who identify with or around the term "diaspora," (to scatter about) or those who have settled far from their ancestral homelands. Passed down through anecdote and experience, these recipes excavate cultural history in a land that highlights difference as otherness. To cook these recipes are to reconnect and relive past generations; to eat them is to share safety. We ask you to donate a story through your recipe, one with personal memories tied to your understanding of home.

https://goo.gl/forms/HhsE9jwPPg4MUYA12

01/09/2019

https://theoutline.com/post/1351/black-asian-conflict-beauty-supply?zd=2&zi=shwj2ffh

RAID, HAPPY 2019! ;3~~*
Hope that we all grow, thrive, and prosper in this New Year.

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This article is not current, was written in 2017, but still nonetheless relevant.

Call out anti-blackness within yourself and your communities. Remember that can not expect other POC to stand for Pan-Asian solidarity without recognizing and being accountable for the problematic actions within our own community. To work towards de-centering whiteness we must recognize the privilege and systemic proximity to whiteness that exists within the Pan-Asian community.

Small businesses owned by Korean-Americans are the epicenter of a tense decades-long relationship.

10/10/2018

Don't forget to submit to the exhibition (email [email protected] with image of the piece and title) if you are interested !!!

DEADLINE IS THIS SATURDAY OCT 13TH.

10/10/2018

Don't forget to submit to the show if you are interested !! DEADLINE IS THIS SUNDAY OCTOBER 13TH

02/23/2018

>>>> UPDATES + UPCOMING MEETING

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02/19/2018

Brown/RISD's CUPSI (College Union Poetry Slam Invitational) Team is traveling to compete and showcase their work in the upcoming national poetry slam conference in April. Please consider supporting these artists reach their goal in funding.

https://www.gofundme.com/brownrisdcupsi

Hi! We are the Brown/RISD College Union Poetry Slam Invitational team– David Guy, Nadia Wolff, Bamidele Oke, Ute Petit, Julian McBride, and Maya Greenhill. We are poets who write to engage in sociopolitical change, facilitate healing, and to tell the stories of the places and peoples we come...

09/18/2017

For those who can't make it to tonight's event, Community Dialogues: Are We Gon' Be Alright? with Jeff Chang at 7:00PM at the RISD Auditorium, comment questions you would like Jeff to answer below! They'll be asked through RAID members in attendance.

09/16/2017

We're starting our first open meeting in ten minutes — come to the Tap Room to meet the group!

09/15/2017

Join RAID and meet the committee behind our budding collective this Saturday, 5:30PM in the Tap Room!

https://www.facebook.com/events/194619111079296/?acontext=%7B%22ref%22%3A%2229%22%2C%22ref_notif_type%22%3A%22plan_user_associated%22%2C%22action_history%22%3A%22null%22%7D&ref=notif¬if_t=plan_user_associated¬if_id=1505513716510521

We are so happy to be back and looking forward to all that we have planned for this year. Still reeling in the excitement and support from our launch last Spring, it was great to meet the many faces, fresh and familiar, that stopped by our booth at Block Party last weekend. Lets start this year off…

09/09/2017

The RAID booth is live ! Come on thru the RISD Block Party and say hi !

04/25/2017

Hello everyone! Our friends at Brown, Brown Southeast Asian Studies Initiative (SEASI) are organizing some exciting events this coming week starting with a film screening tomorrow night as well as a kick-off event Thursday night -- I've attached some flyers as well as a link to the Event for anyone interested!

https://www.facebook.com/events/1304430366300454/

Southeast Asia is one of the most underrepresented areas in academia at Brown and RISD. Yet, there is a vibrant community of students striving to make the region, its diasporas and their identities a core part of their research, activities and life on campus. The Southeast Asian Studies Initiative invites you to discover more about this region and its diasporas through the lens of work by Brown and RISD students on Thursday, April 27, 7pm at the Petteruti Lounge, Campus Center. Student and faculty presenters will be sharing their insights in the form of research projects, opinion editorials, photographic installations, theses, and visual art. Dinner will be provided.

Speakers and topics:

Prof. Evelyn Hu-DeHart – “America and Southeast Asia in the 16th Century: Towards a Global History”
Barry Thrasher – “Post-Post-Colonial Indonesian Development”
Hisyam Takiudin – “Miracle of ASEAN”
Gabriella Gil – a photo series
Pia Ceres – “Family Horror Story," “Diaspora and Language”
Nancy Truong – “Vietnamese-American Nail Salon Workers in the Bay Area”
Fiona Graham – “Casting Shadows: Indonesian Wayang Kulit Performance as a Process of Impression”
Christine Lim – “Destigmatizing Sexuality in the Burma/Myanmar-China Border to Reduce HIV/AIDS”