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"Trans Women Need Asylym"
by Micah Bizant |
Presenters
Asian American Theater Project
The Stanford Asian American Theater Project (AATP) was founded in 1978 by Tony Award winning playwright David Henry Hwang '79 and Nancy Takahashi Hatami '81. AATP combines art and activism to explore minority representation in the arts and strive to create opportunities for artists of all backgrounds. stanfordaatp.weebly.com |
Casa Zapata
Casa Zapata is a four-class house focusing on the Chican@ and Latin@ experience through educational and cultural programs. Zapata residents are engaged in a wide range of activities — staging plays for Zoot Suit week, planning film series, and sharing poetry and music at regular dorm gatherings. Zapata has been a source of inspiration, creativity and community for over three decades. Decorated with vibrant murals by renowned Latino artists throughout the common areas, Casa Zapata is also a hub for community events such as Floricanto, Posadas, and Chican@/Latin@ Reunion Homecoming, as well as host to performing groups such as El Mariachi Cardenal, Ballet Folklorico, a cappella groups, and service organizations. Zapata provides students with the opportunity to share a distinct cultural experience, form strong friendships across all undergraduate classes, and still experience the enthusiasm and spirit that is usually reserved for freshman dorms. casazapata.weebly.com |
JUST ART: Stanford Artist/Activist Collective
JUST ART is a collective of artists, activists, artist-activists, and/or artivists. The collective's goal is to end oppression and to enact social justice by creating art and engaging in political action. We approach our work from an intersectional lens and center the stories of those who experience multiple vectors of oppression — racism, misogyny, hetero/cis-sexism, ableism, classism, xenophobia, religious oppression, etc. In April 2017, JUST ART produced 20 Minutes of Action, a show created by Stanford artists of color in response to Brock Turner's "20 minutes of action," Donald Trump's "locker room talk," and the misappropriation of the term "rape culture." In November 2017, JUST ART co-produced Marigold & Lavender, a multimedia art project that brought together Transgender Day of Remembrance and Día de Muertos through visual art and live performance. 20minutesofaction.weebly.com | marigoldandlavender.wixsite.com/home |
Community Partners
Stanford Refugee Research Project
The Stanford Refugee Research Project (SRRP) is Stanford University’s response to the ongoing global displacement crisis. Funded by President Marc Tessier-Lavigne and Dean Lloyd Minor of the School of Medicine, SRRP examines the role that Stanford has in alleviating conditions for and empowering Syrian refugees both locally and in the Middle East. Get involved. We each have an important role to play in this crisis. Check out SRRP’s website to learn more about specific opportunities in which to get involved. Together, we can make a difference. Together, we can empower refugees. www.refugeeresearchproject.stanford.edu |
Emma Abdullah, author of The Blue Box
The Blue Box (2015) is a collection of short stories about children in Syria during the civil war, written by Emma Abdullah (Stanford class of 2020). Emma, currently a Stanford sophomore studying Political Science, published The Blue Box when she was in high school and living in Kuwait. All of the proceeds from the book go directly to NGOs that support Syrian refugees, specifically UNICEF and the Syrian American Medical Society (SAMS). So far, Emma’s efforts have raised over $80,000 USD to support children in refugee camps. The book has been adapted into a bilingual musical theater production (in Arabic and English), which was awarded Five Stars at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2016. You can purchase copies online at Amazon.com. |
Community Sponsors
Center for Comparative Studies in Race & Ethnicity
The Center for Comparative Studies in Race & Ethnicity (CCSRE) is Stanford’s interdisciplinary hub for teaching and research on race and ethnicity. Across its courses, programs, and events, CCSRE supports students and faculty dedicated to studying race and ethnicity. CCSRE students and scholars approach questions of difference, inequality, and inclusion from dynamic interdisciplinary, comparative, and multiracial/multiethnic perspectives from art to medicine, to law, history, technology, economics, literature and more. ccsre.stanford.edu |
El Centro Chicano y Latino
As a vibrant student center, El Centro Chicano y Latino works to support students academically, personally, socially and culturally. We focus on creating mature, aware and socially responsible individuals who advocate and dialogue for equity and social justice. Within the Chicanx and Latinx community there is great diversity of backgrounds, aspirations and sociopolitical views that adds to the richness of our collective experience. El Centro’s programs provide Stanford students the opportunity to explore Chicanx and Latinx culture, history and traditions, and to use that understanding to work with other ethnic communities in the United States and around the world. El Centro Chicano y Latino is part of the Centers for Equity, Community, and Leadership. elcentro.stanford.edu |
Institute for Diversity in the Arts
The Institute for Diversity in the Arts (IDA) is a program in the arts that involves students and communities in the study of culture, identity, and diversity in and through artistic expression. We believe in the power of arts to transform. Our mission is to create, support, and advance powerful, collaborative, and transformative arts practice and arts leadership in service of equity and justice. diversityarts.stanford.edu |
Nitery Experimental Theater
Nitery Experimental Theater (NExT), a project of the Stanford Theater and Performance Studies Department, aims to present bold and relevant performance meant to challenge, transform, and cultivate meaningful artistic expression. NExT is also committed to diverse communities, aesthetics, and politics that exist within the Stanford community. By building connections between student-artists and the Department of Theater and Performance Studies (TAPS), NExT intends to foster performance as an integral forum for community conversation. Performance at NExT may be raw, political, provocative, or even playful. NExT is not a new home for performance; NExT uses performance to make Stanford a new kind of home. taps.stanford.edu/niterystudio |
Stanford Arts Institute
The Stanford Arts Institute offers interdisciplinary arts curricula and research programs including Honors in the Arts, Arts Immersions and Creative Cities. arts.stanford.edu/arts-institute |
The Office of the Vice Provost for Graduate Education
The Office of the Vice Provost for Graduate Education (VPGE) is proud to sponsor this production with Diversity and Inclusion Innovation Funds (DIF), a pilot program meant to support Stanford graduate students and postdoctoral scholars in the development of a project that will advance graduate student diversity. Stanford’s commitment to diversity is broadly conceived and includes, but is not limited to, culture, socioeconomic background, race, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disabilities, religion, and life experience. A diverse community of scholars asks unexpected questions and contributes divergent insights, pushing the forefront of knowledge further and faster. As a result, the Stanford community reaps the educational benefits of diversity, while preparing future generations of leaders for a global society. vpge.stanford.edu |