Sorry, this post is almost two weeks overdue. As some of you may know, based on my rave about NQAPIA weeks during the months leading up to it, you'd know I wouldn't miss it for the world. Now, I'm going to try to recollect what happened.
The Southeast Asian Queer Caucus was the first convening of queer identified Southeast Asians in recent history. The caucus was led by SeaQuel, a subgroup of Prysm based in Providence. A significant number of attendees were also from SOY (Shades of Yellow) based in Minneasota. There, SeaQuel released their findings from their Queer Southeast Asian Census, which had 150 respondents from around the nation. This led to a discussion which formed the foundation for a possible future Southeast Asian Queer Network.
Other prominent figures I ran into at the Conference were Shirley Tan - advocate for UAFA, Grace - Boss of Khmer in Action, Good Asian Drivers and the Founder of LoveGAM.com. Though, I wished more political figures would have attended the conference (Evan Low).
Other than that, Seattle was beautiful and the nightlife was better than I expected. After the Conference I made it to the Wing Luke Asian American Museum. They had on display "Across the Spectrum: Stories from Queer Asian Pacific America." To my surprise, a fellow schoolmate and friend of mine was on display. Chinatown could use a little help. Food was mediocre, though they had a very cute "Cha Chaan Tangs," but not so good milk tea.
Oh well that's all, peace!
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Glad you enjoyed the conference! We tried to get more political folks to attend, but as you know, it was hard to get up to Seattle for many. I think (hope!) the success we had will provide additional incentive for folks who were interested in coming but wanted to see how it would pan out to come to future events.
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