Proud to make the cover of @PGHCityPaper and to be part of the beautiful legacy of sex worker organizing in Pittsburgh ❤️ Thank you to @PghSWOP @sapiotextual@adrierising@pjrey and all those who’ve been doing the work long before me!
Psyched to virtually present my documentary “The Last Mayor of Chinatown” today at my alma mater for @English_CMU Bridges & Borders conference on the theme of the archive. My subject Shirley Yee is retiring from CMU this year so it feels very full circle! https://t.co/kFmRulwFYO
Speaking on this roundtable at @AmerStudiesAssn#ASA2024 on artistic programming in the academy aka how to support artists I love with institutional funds while avoiding tokenization (and often failing)
I have a co-authored chapter with @kass_sparks_on sex worker gift economies and mutual aid in this edited volume on sex work ✨ Get a free copy when it comes out next month with NYU Press. Edited by @barbbrents Bernadette Barton & @drjonessoc.
Presenting in-progress research next week for this virtual series at University of Toronto! I’ll discuss representations of Asian sex workers, the artistic activism of @RedCanarySong, and the founding of JADED Pittsburgh after the 2021 Atlanta shootings https://t.co/8DTOqCPWQm
Lena Chen, AARC graduate student affiliate, has won three awards for her film, "The Last Mayor of Chinatown," which tells the story of the rise, decline, & rediscovery of Pittsburgh’s Chinatown. @lenachen https://t.co/hrQQOHMLyE
My documentary on Yuen Yee, the last honorary mayor of Pittsburgh’s Chinatown, is screening across the Midwest this fall ❤️ Catch the film in-person in Ohio and Minneapolis or online during @VAFFvancouver 🎥 We hope to complete a Chinese translation by the end of the year!
Congratulations to "The Last Mayor of Chinatown" for earning the First Place award in this year's Fifteen Minute Film Festival!
Directed by Lena Chen, the film tells the story of the rise, decline, and rediscovery of Pittsburgh’s Chinatown.
@raquelita You’ve been such a trailblazer and dedicated to platforming others’ work for so long! Yes, through publishing but also through hosting events and being a general cheerleader for folks ❤️
When you draft a paper, does it look like a Mad Libs no one wants to do? A bunch of [X], [another word for cultivate], [example], [citation here], [transition].
Filmed on a day when the museum was closed to the public, the project was originally commissioned by We Have Always Been Here, an exhibition at the Schwules Museum.
We’ll be showing at 9am on Saturday June 29 in the Weird Sexy Shorts block of Feminist Border Arts Film Festival.
Thrilled to announce that Mother of Whores - a video performance at the Ishtar Gate in the Pergamon Museum - is debuting at the Feminist Border Arts Film Festival this Saturday, June 29th at New Mexico State University!
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as a powerful feminine figure and the marginalization of her queer and sex worker consorts. The ritual features a procession through the museum halls, offerings of music and dance to the goddess, and the planting of a succulent known as the “Mother of Thousands.”