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Event: Introducing Asian American and Pacific Islander Identities

Join Julia Shizuyo Popham, PhD StudentÌýof CU Boulder's Department of Comparative Ethnic Studies, for a presentation on Asian American history and Asian American and Pacific Islander identities at the Lafayette Public Library onÌýThursday, May 25, 2023, at 6:30 pm.ÌýTote bags will be available (first come, first served, while supplies last).

Event Info:

• Date: Thursday, May 25, 2023
• Time: 6:30PM - 7:30PM
• Location: Meeting Room, Lafayette Public Library
• Address:Ìý775 Baseline Rd, Lafayette, CO 80026
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• Audience: Open and welcome to all.
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Tote Bags:

The toteÌýbags will include tools to help people learn about Asian American history and identity, with the purpose of creating more inclusive communities for AAPI Americans and stopping anti-Asian racism.Ìý

Each tote bag will contain:

• 2 textsÌýby prominent voices in the AAPI community
• access to a free, 3-week Ìý
• access to other creative projects highlighting AAPI voices
• notetaking tools (pen, notebook, sticky notes)

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Each tote bag includes two titles from the following selection of books:

• Asian American Histories of the United StatesÌýbyÌýCatherine Ceniza ChoyÌý(Beacon Press, 2022)
• Like Water: A Cultural History of Bruce LeeÌýbyÌýDaryl Joji MaedaÌý(NYU Press, 2022)
• Habitat Threshold byÌýCraig Santos Perez (Omnidawn, 2020)
• The Sense of Wonder: A NovelÌýbyÌýMatthew Salesses’s (Little, Brown and Company, 2023)
• This is One Way to Dance: EssaysÌýbyÌýSejal ShahÌý(University of Georgia Press, 2020)
• On Earth We’re Briefly GorgeousÌýby Ocean VuongÌý(Penguin Books, 2021)

Find moreÌýbooks celebrating AAPI (Asian American and Pacific Islander) Month in the .Ìý

Â鶹ÊÓƵ the Speaker

Julia Shizuyo Popham’s interests lie at the intersection of affect, material culture, and racialized state violence. Her current work surrounds an extensive collection of paintingsÌýÌýproduced while confined in the Santa Anita Detention Facility in Arcadia, California and the Amache Incarceration Camp in Southeastern Colorado from 1942-1945. Through this work, she investigates the ways in which Kusumi engaged artmaking to endure seemingly unendurable conditions (gaman) and even make joy in the crevices of everyday trauma. In addition to her research, Julia volunteers with the Amache Alliance, an alliance dedicated to preserving the Amache incarceration site and its history. She also works with theÌýCenter for Humanities & the Arts, where she helps coordinate projects dedicated toÌýeducating CU Boulder and Boulder County residents about anti-Asian racism and ways of becoming active bystanders against anti-Asian hate.