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I study ABGs 💅🏻
👩🏽‍🏫 Asian American Studies
📖 children’s book @weareinspiringbook

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Join Helen Toribio Kapwa Fellows and Mesa Refuge at Lit Crawl – a massive, one-night literary pub crawl through San Francisco’s Mission District.
This reading includes Isa Borgeson, Rona Fernandez, Jassmin Poyaoan, Aileen Suzara, Aimee Suzara, and Angel Trazo, who were brought together through the Helen Toribio Kapwa Fellowship at Mesa Refuge. Kapwa is a Tagalog word that does not have an exact English translation, but describes “the universal truth of interconnectedness and solidarity with all living beings.” In the spirit of kapwa, these writers bring into conversation distinct explorations of intergenerational relationships and trauma, mothering, queerness, climate change and the role of colonialism, and mythology.

When: October 24th, 6:30pm
Where: Medicine for Nightmares, SF

#litcrawl2026

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We kicked 2026 off with the second cohort of the Helen Toribio Kapwa Fellowship. Mary Grace (M.G.) Bertulfo, Jassmin Poyaoan, and Angel Trazo explored themes of intergenerational diasporic experiences and ecology.

M.G. is a television and children’s education writer.Her work has appeared in Sierra and Chicago Wilderness magazines, Dear Human at the Edge of Time, Growing Up Filipino II, and more. M.G.’s pieces have been performed at the Goodman and Open Door theaters. She co-owns Calypso Moon Art Studio in Chicago and founded Banyan: Asian American Writers Collective. At Mesa, she worked on her ecological novel for preteens, Marshall & Mandy’s Great Escape, which draws on precolonial Filipino mythology and knowledge.

Jassmin is a graduate of UCLA School of Law and is a California-based civil rights lawyer. Examples of her work include negotiating to secure affordable office and theater space for BIPOC-led nonprofits and artists, and the formation of a worker-led entity that creates employment opportunities for BIPOC and refugee chefs in Oakland. At Mesa, Jassmin worked on a semi-fictional memoir highlighting the themes of love, grief, heartbreak, justice and migration across multiple generations in her family.

Angel received her PhD in Cultural Studies at UC Davis. She is the author and illustrator of the children's book, We Are Inspiring, and the illustrator of Vanessa Unmuted. Her work has been published in Alon: Journal for Filipinx American and Diasporic Studies and Amerasia Journal. Her comics have been published in Bank Street Occasional Papers Series, ASAP/Journal, and Modern Language Studies. At Mesa, Angel worked on Gaddang Maganda, a children’s book that explores a young Pinay’s journey toward accepting her beautiful (maganda) brown skin.

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A special thank you to @angeltrazo for visually documenting our boba therapy panel! ❤️🥰😍 #apahe2026 @apahenational

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Another beautiful panel experience: The State of Collective Resistance in Filipinx Studies. From the Community College to the R1 to the CSU, our communities are finding ways to continue healing, resisting, & building across solidarity.

As always, major salamat to sis Dr. @angeltrazo for the beautiful forever memory.

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Come join CAPAS and PASU at the Grove House on Friday, April 17, from 5-6pm for a virtual talk on the history and implications of the ABG subculture in shaping the community and politics of Asian American college students.

Since 2018, the Asian Baby Girl (ABG) has been stereotyped as a conventionally attractive Asian American college student who loves boba, raving, and partying within Asian American social circles. However, the ABG also has roots in 1990s Southeast Asian gang culture and the import car scene. The evolving conversation around ABGs reveals how Asian American young adults both internalize and critique aesthetics of an Asian American identity enmeshed in the logics of neoliberalism and the model minority.

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“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a woman in possession of a certain age must be in want of a birthday party.” -Jane Austen (maybe). Surrounded by love, laughter, and a dash of tea-fueled whimsy #30andflourishing

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5 years later and my time at Davis is coming to an end. Thank you all for a wonderful send-off 🌻🌻🌻 And of course, thank you so so much for changing my life. I couldn’t have become Dr Cavar without you 💖🎓

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A jam packed day of lightning talks at @uwmadison's Asian American Media Lab. Among the breadth of topics covered, it was great to hear from several of our @tayohelp research partners on their current work. Thank you to Drs. Rachel Kuo and Lori Kido Lopez of @aasp_uwmadison for letting @leezeltanglao and I sit in! 💡#aamlab #asianamericanmedialab #mediastudies #asianamericanstudies #asianamstudies
#uwmadison #universityofwisconsin #madison #wisconsin

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Our first event was a huge success! Thank you panelists, fellow grad students, and undergraduates who attended Demystifying Grad School from a Fil Am Perspective ❤️

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Had a great time meeting folks at Coffee bagel donut day 🍩! @ucdavisgsa

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Introducing Kasamas Co-President, Angel Trazo 🌟🧋 Angel started this org as part of her Professors for the Future Fellowship project. She hopes to bring Fil Am grad students and postdocs into community, similar to the communities she had been lucky to experience through the Pilipino Am Grad Student Association (PAGaSA) at UCLA and the former Bulosan Center for Filipinx American Studies, now @amadokhaya 🥰

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I performed the latest version of my multimedia presentation “Asian futures, without Asians” to a full theater at Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts a few weeks ago. I’m so proud of this project and how much it’s developed, and hope to have the opportunity to perform it again.

Since its debut as an online Zoom presentation during the height of the pandemic, I’ve updated and refined the script and imagery to respond to current events and my continued research into science fiction and cultural heritages across Asia, collaborated with musician Tammy Lakkis to develop a live soundtrack, and enlisted local stylists to create futuristic Asian styling — this time with a costume by Stephanie Gancayco and hair & makeup by Carla Grace Fajardo (/7; more about this soon!). I incorporated animation and, with the help of Lyds Cope-Arguello, lighting effects, and have learned soo much about performance and my own abilities with every iteration.

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The performance was followed by a conversation with Racial Worldmaking author Mark Jerng (/4 by @angeltrazo), and sponsored by @ucdasa, @mellonfoundation Affirming Multivocal Humanities Grant & @mondavicenter.

Huge thanks to Susette Min and Mark Jerng for inviting me; the entire Mondavi team, especially Jeremy Ganter, Rob Tocalino, Holly McNeill, Daniel Villegas, Ricky Wai Kit Tam, and Ezekiel; and everyone who waited to talk to me afterwards or sent a sweet message. 💝

📷: Ronald Davis @kewlroom (/1-3, 7); rest by me (/8 crew in the rafters adjusting lighting; /9 playing with lighting options).
Drawing by audience member Francine Guerrero during the discussion (/5)!

#asianfutureswithoutasians #astriasuparak #scifi
@tammylakkis @stephgancayco @camerareadycarla @glamorousglaneuse

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