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From my lovely and extraordinarily talented friend Kate.

dear all,

i am working on a very very important art interventionist project about
birth family search in corea, a project that is extremely individual,
yet having the potential of impacting adoption practices and
challenging traditional methods of search. my budget is about $7,000+
and i’ve applied to 3 funding organizations already and am in the
process of applying to several more. i also need your help.

if you are willing and able to donate to my project, your donation is
tax deductible. please ask me how!
anything above $100 will receive a limited edition poster (used in the
project) signed by me. anything over $300 will receive a poster and
dvd of the project when it’s completed: projected 2007. all will be
listed on my website and video documentary as a donator/sponsor.
even 10 bucks makes a difference, truly.

title of project:
Artistic Intervention: Search for the Missing Family in Corea

summary of project:
I propose to travel to Seoul, Corea for the purposes of working on an
artistic interventionist project that focuses on raising an awareness
of the plight of overseas adopted Coreans who return to Corea to do a
birth family search. The format will focus on a very significant action
on the date that I was born and will be documented through video,
photography, and sound becoming components of a website and a video
that will encourage, inspire and incite change.

i am also speaking about this project in april 2005 at MSU: Asian
American Women’s Conference. i am available for speaking engagements,
workshops, and conferences.

please hear my request for help and email me if you have any
questions/want to read the entire proposal or if you would like to
contribute. Or if you might know someone else who is interested,
please forward.

thanks,

kate hers

kate hers, artist/activist/educator
upcoming new website: www.katehers.comnew email: katehers@gmail.com

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American Olympians may be strong, athletic, driven and competitive, but diversity also describes the 2004 U. S. Olympic Team. Some ethnic backgrounds represented include Japanese, South African, Israeli, Chinese, Hungarian and German, just to name a few. This August, be on the lookout for these promising U.S. Olympic athletes:

Kevin Han — Badminton
Chinese immigrant whose first job in the United States was delivering Chinese food for a restaurant
One of the top badminton players in the world; holds the highest rank for an American in the sport

Kimiko Soldati — Diving
Comes from Japanese ancestry; father was born in a U.S. internment camp
Tried out diving after suffering a serious injury from gymnastics in high school

Mohini Bhardwaj — Gymnastics
Father is from India and mother is from Russia, but they met in Canada
Favorite event is vault; won the 2001 national vault title

My new roommate Jane is running for SF School Board.

Statement Jane offers a progressive vision and a commitment to engaging ideas and a fresh perspective. Jane’s background in community work will ensure the school board becomes more accessible to youth, to parents, and to the community at large.

About JaneJane Kim is the youth program director at the Chinatown Community Development Center, a 27-year-old affordable housing nonprofit that also engages in community organizing, education and planning. For the past four years, she has worked with San Francisco high school students in creating youth-initiated leadership training and community service projects. Previously, Jane was a fellow at Greenlining Institute, a Bay Area nonprofit that improves economic access for disadvantaged communities.

She is also a co-director and co-founder of Locus Arts, a volunteer-run venue in San Francisco that showcases emerging musicians, writers, filmmakers and actors. Jane is on the board of directors for the Asian American Theater Company and the Stanford Asian Pacific American Alumni Club. In addition, she served on the Women’s Foundation’s Community Action Grant Committee and presently is a member of the Full Circle Fund, a group of young leaders engaged in innovative philanthropy.

Outside of work, Jane has a black belt in Tae Kwon Do and plays bass guitar. She completed her undergraduate degree at Stanford University in Political Science and Asian American Studies.

…

There are reasons why I call her Hot Jane.

But that’s besides the point.

If you are passionate about youth advocacy, please register and vote.

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PS.

Happy Birthday Hot Jane!

July 5 – August 23
Registration now open for new 8-week writing workshop:
Sexual and Erotic Writing with Mary Anne Mohanraj
Mondays, 7 – 9PM
SomArts Cultural Center, 934 Brannan Street (between 8th and 9th streets),
San Francisco

Class size: minimum of 8, maximum of 12.
Cost: $160 non-members, $140 for KSW members.
**Note: This writing workshop is priced slightly higher than our other
8-week writing workshops to partially cover some of the travel costs of the
instructor, who will be flying in from Chicago to teach the workshop. Thanks
for your understanding.

To register, please send a check for the full amount to: Kearny Street
Workshop, 934 Brannan Street, San Francisco, CA 94103. Please include your
name, contact information (phone number and email address if possible), and
which class you are registering for. For questions, please contact program
manager Samantha Chanse at 415.503.0520 or info@kearnystreet.org.

Class Description:
In this course, we will explore various aspects of sexual, sensual and
erotic writing. We will experiment with poetry, fiction and non-fiction,
exploring the powerful and often difficult elements of sex-related
literature. We will examine such aspects as:

- the language of sexuality (clinical vs. crude vs. what?)
- the technical differences between erotic fiction and soft/hard porn
- the power of reclaiming one’s own sexual experience through memoir
- the ethics of sexual writing (especially within an Asian and/or female
experience)

Students will be encouraged to push their own boundaries, to take risks with
their writing, in a safe and nurturing workshop environment.

This will be a writing-intensive class, with an emphasis on group
participation and critique. Each student will finish the workshop with at
least one complete piece in the genre of their choice, suitable for
submission; we will also review markets for erotica and sexual writing.
There will be brief assigned readings, primarily excerpts from such authors
as Anais Nin, Nicholson Baker, Ginu Kamani, Chitra Divakaruni, Maxine Hong
Kingston, etc.

About the Instructor:
Mary Anne Mohanraj is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Utah,
specializing in post-colonial literature and creative writing. She is the
author of several books, including TORN SHAPES OF DESIRE (a collection),
AQUA EROTICA and WET (two erotica anthologies she edited for Random House),
KATHRYN IN THE CITY and THE CLASSICS PROFESSOR (two erotic
choose-your-own-adventure novels she wrote for Penguin), and A TASTE OF
SERENDIB (a Sri Lankan cookbook). Her most recent publications include “A
Gentle Man” (HARPUR PALATE), “Wild Roses” (THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF BEST NEW
EROTICA, VOL. 3) and “How It Started” (BEST LESBIAN EROTICA 2003). Mohanraj
founded and served as editor-in-chief from 1998-2000 for CLEAN SHEETS, one
of the foremost online erotica magazines. She has recently received a Neff
fellowship in English, a Steffenson-Canon fellowship in the Humanities, and
the Scowcroft Prize for Fiction. She lives in Chicago and is currently
finishing her dissertation, BODIES IN MOTION, an exploration of sexuality,
marriage, and Sri Lankan/American immigrant concerns.
www.mamohanraj.com

Pretty straightforward.

Donate some bones to support Bloodlines.
Get an Gmail invite in return.

Don’t read this msg and still comment spam a request with a) no Father’s day story or b) a donation to support my cause, then don’t be surprised when I don’t respond.

Doy.

My friend Jim has worked on an extraordinary film titled Bloodlines that is aching for submission ot the FREDDIE Awards. The short story: they need to raise about $225 for the submission film.

To Donate for the Bloodlines Freddie Film Submission: paypal to bloodlines@minjungkim.com

About the film below:

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The filmmakers would like an opportunity to submit Bloodlines to be
considered for a FREDDIE award. Independently produced, Bloodlines tells a
real story of giving back to a neglected community. Exposure from the
FREDDIEs could gain additional attention to health disparities in developing
nations while bringing the film to wider audiences. Submission fee for the
award competition is $225. Thank you for your support. www.canopyhill.com

About the movie:Bloodlines: A Medical Mission to Iloilo, Philippines

“Bloodlines” chronicles the 2003 medical mission of a Philippine Medical
Society where volunteers struggle to meet the needs of thousands of patients.

About the award:
The FREDDIE Awards, MediMedia’s International Health & Medical Media Awards, stands at the helm of health & medical media competitions. Its goal has always been to encourage and celebrate excellence and every year it attracts documentaries, series, shorts, videos, Web sites, DVDs and CD-ROMs from around the world.

http://www.haroldandkumar.com/

I am *so* fucking close to having been Cindy Kim (Perfect Asian Girlfriend from the Downloads area) that it’s a little terrifying.

Except for that honda civic hello kitty thing.

I got power puff girl stickers on my cell phone.

… On second thought…I’m more like Cindy Kim’s older, crazier, drunken, slutty big sister. Or the cousin that no one mentions.

Ishle Yi Park’s book release : The Temperature of This Water:
Tuesday, May 18, 2004
7:00 PM Reception

Galleria De La Raza
2857 24th Street @ Bryant
San Francisco, California 94110 Edit Event

The Temperature of This Water: Ishle Yi Park’s book release

Kearny Street Workshop and Locus Arts present a book release for poet Ishle Yi Park’s “The Temperature of This Water” from Kaya Press (NYC).

With the clairvoyant double vision that arises from being caught between
two cultures, Park illustrates what it is like to be a young Korean
immigrant in New York City who daily sees the lives of her family cracked
open as much by love as by overwork, violence, and racism. Throughout the
collection the native language and culture she fights to keep sacred and
visible is intertwined with her own ambition and sadness about the corner
store fate of many of her relatives. The book is as much about learning
how to struggle as it is learning what struggles are truly ours.

Park’s vision encompasses the lovers, criminals, mothers, and gangbangers
who live behind the closed doors of New York City immigrant life. Whether
tracing the paths of prisoners meeting girlfriends, Korean comfort women,
or .44s shot from rooftops in Brooklyn, Park’s passion and uncompromising
honesty lays bare the ruined heart of a city still pulsing with light.

“Ishle Yi Park is a brilliant young poet: fiery, intelligent, raw, funny,
brave. She brings a new and powerful energy to American poetry, smashing
to pieces the mask of Korean-American stereotype. Listen to this soaring
voice, this beautiful and terrible song of the city. An extraordinary
debut.” – Martin Espada

About the Artist
Ishle Park is a Korean American woman born and raised in New York. A
recipient of a fiction grant from the New York Foundation for the Arts
and a Gregory Millard Fellow, her work has been published in over 20
anthologies, including The Beacon Best of 2001 and The Best American
Poetry of 2003, edited by Pulitzer-prize winning Yosuf Komunyakaa.

Park has performed at over one hundred venues across the United States,
Cuba and Korea. She is the first Korean American woman ever to compete
and feature on the finals stage at the National Poetry Slam. She was
featured on HBO’s Russell Simmons Presents: Def Poetry Jam, and recently
appeared on the NAACP Image Awards reading a tribute poem to Venus and
Serena Williams. She has been written about in The Economist, Asianweek,
The Black Scholar Review, and The San Francisco Guardian, Snd has aired
nationally on FOX, Gotham TV and HBO.
The Temperature of This Water is her first book.
May 18, 2004, 8pm
Galeria de la Raza 2857 24th Street (@ Bryant)

Moulann is performing at an Open Mic tonight.

~8PMish.

Bazaar Cafe
5927 California St.
(California @ 21st)
San Francisco, CA 94121
phone: 415.831.5620

She’ll have some CD’s for sale too!