PAN-ASIAN PACIFIC ISLANDER PERSPECTIVES
WHO IS A.P.A.S.A.?
We welcome anyone to join us in our activities!
• Come to our meetings on Thursdays, 5-6 pm, HSU Nelson Hall East 120.
• Visit us on facebook: www.facebook.com/AsianPacificAmericanStudentAlliance.
• Email us at apasa@humboldt.edu.
The Humboldt State University (HSU) Asian Pacific Islander American Student Alliance’s (A.P.A.S.A) goal is to create a space for people who identify within pan-Asian Pacific Islander ethnicity at HSU to gather and find camaraderie.
We also seek to form alliances with other groups and the local community in an effort to increase awareness and appreciation of the diversity that exists within our group and how we identify as Asian, Asian American, South Asian, and Pacific Islanders, & to work in solidarity to engage our differences.
We hope this will contribute to the ongoing work to create a community in which there is cultural awareness, appreciation & respect.
Our goals are to:
- Create spaces for participants to tell their stories about what it means to be Asian, Asian American, South Asian, and Pacific Islanders in their own voices, and engage in dialogue with those who do not identify as such about their perspectives too of what “Asian” means.
- Increase awareness and appreciation of the diversity that exists within our group and work in solidarity to engage our differences.
- Form alliances with other groups and in the local community.
“Far from homogenous, we are a multicultural, multilingual people who hold different worldviews & divergent modes of interpretation….It is not about obscuring our internal differences, but rather about taking seriously the heterogeneities among our ranks. Only in doing so can we build a meaningful solidarity as a pan-Asian group – one that allows us to combat systems of chauvinism & inequality both within & beyond our community.”
- Yen Espiritu, Asian American Panethnicity, Bridging Institutions & Identities.