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What real allyship looks like 🚺♀️💃🏽

Which of these green flags have you seen in your own workplace?

On October 10, I spent the day listening to men talk about dismantling sexism. Not just theorizing it, but actively doing the work. Thank you @cheftudavidphu and @jspark3000 for being vulnerable and man enough to speak your minds, and thank you @aapiwomenlead and @seemz00 for creating the room where it could happen.

As I start a new chapter at Safeway on October 12, I've been reflecting on what real allyship looks like in practice. Here are the green flags I'm carrying with me:

1. 👑 Ownership from the top
Like Chef Tu David Phu said, "the fish stinks from the head." Real change starts when leaders take full responsibility for the culture they build.

2👂 Active listening
Seeing men sit in a room full of women just to learn, not to lead or take over the space, is a huge green flag.

3🪑 Making space, not just giving it
It's about ensuring the table is equitable once we get there, rather than just checking a box.

4. 🔍 Willingness to be audited
A healthy system isn't afraid of an external HR audit or community feedback to find the blind spots.

I've made some deep connections this weekend, and the future of AAPI women leadership is on the up and up. This is the kind of energy I want to help build in Port Angeles. We all want equitable spaces to thrive, period.

#aapiwomenlead #allyship #newchapter #portangeles #womeninleadership

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a beautiful gathering of ANHPI community with @aapiwomenlead @seewun @jennywun … more of these spaces, more of these conversations, more of all of this. and shoutout @jennyandcabbage for giving me a new craft obsession 🎲🖤🧸

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🎬🎬🎬and just like that we closed out AAPI Women Lead’s @aapiwomenlead 8th and final ImReady conference!!! Theme: RELENTLESS.

We are an organization created by two Vietnamese survivor sisters. Relentlessness is in our blood.

Thank you to EVERY powerfully unapologetic speaker, wellness practitioner, vendor, volunteer, guest, consultant, board member, artist, donor, safety, funder and attendee who made this event possible. Thank you to our beloved MC @iamsongha for being the Queen of Ceremonies. There is no way we could have done this without you all.

To our survivor community, I love and appreciate you so deeply + fiercely. Thank you for being with us. We are beautiful forces. 💕

To the powerhouse at dynamic duo at @aapiwomenlead, Jenny and Vanessa, you carried the work of tens of humans. Thank you. Thank you to our comms staff for holding it down. We are a tiny tiny team making miracles happen.

People flew in from Hawai’i, Washington state, Portland, DC, Georgia, Florida and all across California to join us. THANK YOU for your brilliance, trust, love and care.

Our speakers were phenomenal. Our practitioners exceptional. Our attendees amazing. The vibe unparalleled. It’s what we all do together.

What started as a small org funded by Jenny’s credit card that has extended to reach millions across the globe: we are relentless, unstoppable, a force to be reckoned with. And I am forever proud of the global community we have built and will continue to grow. MORE TO COME.

We rest now. So that we can be MF RELENTLESS where we need to be.

WE DID IT!!!!! 💜 stay tuned for the magic that is to come. xo

📸 @drtracienoriega @seemz00 @helladieubeaute @jspark3000 @_tinadao and more.
🌷arrangements: @bloomiesstudio
venue: @oaklandasiancc
art: @ph.amm 💕

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A huge thank you to our talented, long-time illustrator, friend and colleague, My Tien Pham (@ph.amm), for bringing ImReady 2026 to life with this year's official artwork for ImReady2026- RELENTLESS! 🙌

About My Tien Pham-
Pham's art depicts the lives of our communities whose stories often go untold.

As a Vietnamese artist, she blends themes of Vietnamese matriarchy and Southeast Asian representation, challenging Eurocentric beauty standards.

Pham's art intentionally speaks to the issues facing our generation now. With this piece, she did exactly that.

Please take a moment to celebrate and appreciate her art work.

🎟️ $5 tickets are STILL AVAILABLE and go away 10/1/2026. We want to see you there!

Get yours before they sell out at www.aapiwl.org/imready-2026

This event is centers ANHPI women and gender expansive communities. Allies are welcomed to come learn and be in community!

Thank you to our generous donor who has made this possible.

Event Details:
📅 Date: October 10, 2026
📍 Location: Oakland Asian Cultural Center
🕘 Time: 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Ready to Join Us?

Register today at www.aapiwl.org/imready
Or link in bio!! ⬆️⬆️

www.aapiwl.org/imready-2026
@aapiwomenlead
@thinktwice.media

#Relentless #ImReady2026 #AAPIWomenLead

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We're 2 days out!! On October 10, during Domestic Violence Awareness Month, at the historic Oakland Asian Cultural Center, we are bringing together our community for AAPI Women Lead's 8th and final ImReady Movement Conference.

Join us as come together to talk about Ending Patriarchy, Community Healing, and what it means to be Relentless at this Moment.

Be part of our survivors' Wellness Haven as our cultural & wellness practitioners hold workshops on East Asian Medicine, Kado, DIY Bag Charms, Self-Defense, Ancestral Intuitive Healing and more!

ImReady2026 is an ANHPI centered gathering. All are welcomed to join, learn and build survivor and community power together.

Ticket sales end tomorrow or until they sell out.

See you all on 10/10 in Oakland.

Event Details:
📅 Date: October 10, 2026
📍 Location: Oakland Asian Cultural Center
🕘 Time: 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Ready to Join Us?
Workshop sign-up are first come, first serve. Get to the conference early to sign up!
Details are subject to change.

www.aapiwl.org

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Our final ImReady Conference is just 3 days away! We have a few tickets left.

We are thrilled to be joined by our good friend, Tony Award winning poet, @beausia

Beau Sia is the son of Chinese immigrants from the Philippines. Raised in Oklahoma CIty, he received his BFA in dramatic writing from New York University’s Tisch School of The Arts.

While living in New York City, Sia became a member of the 1996 Nuyorican Poets Cafe National Poetry Slam team, which is featured in the award-winning documentary SlamNation (1998). Sia went on to be a part of two National Poetry Slam championship teams, before being featured on all six seasons of HBO’s Def Poetry Jam. In 2002, he became an original cast member of the Tony Award-winning Def Poetry Jam on Broadway. Sia would later tour both nationally and internationally with the show.

See you October 10th for ImReady2026: RELENTLESS, a day centered on community and connection built for ANHPI survivors and allies alike. Come ready to be in community, to learn and to connect.

Event Details:
📅 Date: October 10, 2026
📍 Location: Oakland Asian Cultural Center, Oakland, CA
🕘 Time: 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Ready to Join Us?

Tickets are $15 and are still available at www.AAPIWL.org/imready-2026

Join us! We want to see you there!

#AAPIWomenLead #ImReady2026

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#WaterIsLife | 09/08/2026 | Gaza City: Camp near the Passports Office Area | Our team continued our water distributions, delivering another 6,000 liters of drinking water to Palestinian families at a camp near the Passports Office area in Gaza City.

6,000 liters | Total Cost: $180

This delivery brings our running total to 1,563 water trucks delivered across Gaza through community-funded mutual aid—equivalent to more than 15.63 MILLION bottles of water.

Israel continues to destroy Gaza’s water infrastructure and enforce its illegal and inhumane blockade, restricting Palestinians’ access to water.

Our water comes from Palestinian-owned wells in Gaza, and Palestinian volunteers lead distributions on the ground. This is mutual aid rooted in Palestinian self-determination, sovereignty, and Indigenous solidarity—not charity.

We will continue challenging Israel’s illegal blockade and standing in solidarity with the Palestinian people in Gaza.

From Turtle Island to Palestine.
Water is life. Mní Wičhóni. الماء حياة.

How You Can Support:
💧 Become a recurring Chuffed donor to sustain daily water deliveries and community water access projects.
👕 Buy a solidarity t-shirt designed by Indigenous artists at our website—100% of proceeds support our work in Gaza.
📢 Share our work and help keep the water moving.

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We are dying a slow death

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I didn’t want to post this, because then it would mean it was really true. I found some words for you big brother. I hope they do you justice.

Tony Awards 2003

Tony Awards 2003

Tony Awards 2003

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ive lost enough people in recent years to know there’s no right way to approach sharing grief so publicly and yet so lonely on social media. it’s been so many folks that i don’t even share how deep the hurt is anymore. it lingers now and alters every experience.

i carry a melancholy and it colors every beautiful blessing. gratitude is a real embodied practice because every day you wake up you realize you haven’t died yet. not yet. but it’s a sure bet. and you carry on deeply aware others are not here. your relationship with them changes and there’s an initiation into the realm of the unseen. life, as we know it, is so fragile. our relationships with people is truly all that this life thing is worth.

and so ive learned, thank you, is an important prayer.

And so, thank you @thelegendaryblackice

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Yesterday, my old friend, Lamar, better known to the world as Black Ice/crossed over

I offer an old poem we co-wrote/and performed/when Jam Master Jay/passed away

we were children/then
unaware of the future we were predicting
with these rapid fire/internal rhymes
conjured for Bob and Jay

Today/other losses crowd my breast/testing my ability to believe good still remains
in the grief that is left

Bereft/is one of my favorite words
Onomatopoeic
Bereft/like the soft swish
of something taken away

Fate be betraying motherfuckers
all the time
and still/the furies be asking us to believe
there is reason for the ripping open of the solar plexus/the rest of us be flexing to hide the hurt

curt answers and short calls
it takes more than balls to be honest with those you love/easier to pull the wool
pretend to feel something you don’t

what kind of broken intent/snaps the bone of a thing they say they hold dear
tearing/skin and sinew alike
what kind of horror are we swimming in/when kismet claws back the breath of poets on darkening days

Everything is upside down today

News of a loved one’s death should not come
on days like this/after the ground you have just begun to trust/is pulled out from under you
when being in your community
is already asking too much of your thinning grace

Today/my face is a cracked scream
Philly be up in my craw/too many maladies situated in Philly

Too many heartaches/gnawing at my too-long sack of sorrows/

Lamar and I were very different creatures/in our youth/we argued over everything/we saw the world through different lenses/today only his words remain

Today I am gathering all my grief
binding them across my belly
in a hammock/in Kingston

I am crying for you
for me/for what was/what might have been

Sorrow begets sorrow
and I am a great believer in legacy

Rest in peace/brother
only a year older/you have been chosen to go on ahead
if anything is left of you
if you can still hear me

These are only some of the things I would say
if your body/were still here with us/today

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Does anyone in the Covid Cautious Community
Know how Charlie Doodle is doing? I miss reposting their comics so much 👀
It seems they are no longer on this platform. Does any one know the best way
to get in touch?

I made this fan art to honor them.

Slide 1 - comic version of Dimitrea says, “I may not have the same risk…”
Slide 2 - comic version of Dimitrea sees comic version of Charlie Doodle
approaching and they are mask twinsies, Dimitrea says, “…but I will wear
the same mask.”
Slide 3 - comic version of Dimitrea and comic version of Charlie Doodle
greet each other with raucous elbow bumps joyously.
Slide 4 - Dimitrea and Charlie Doodle say, “We Keep Each Other Safe”
Slide 5 - is all 4 previous slides in a cube formation
Slide 6 - Comic by Charlie Doodle published with permission
by The Sick Times and the inspiration for this fan art comic.

Wearing a mask may be inconvenient, uncomfortable, annoying…
but how’s being sick working out for ya?

#permissiontomaskagain

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