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🍰‼️ AAMP's First Small Group Outing of the Semester!

A couple of weeks ago, the AAMP small groups went on their first outing. These outings are arranged entirely by the mentors and are meant to help grow friendly relationships between mentors and mentees.

A popular choice for these outings is to gather for food! We love seeing everyone hanging out with each other and wonder where people will go for their next outing~

Image description: This poster highlights some photos that AAMP small groups have taken during their outings. All photos feature people smiling and posing for the camera. Each photo was taken at a different location, but they are all in a cafe or restaurant. One photo shows people holding ice cream, while others show people enjoying drinks or food. The poster itself is light pink and is decorated with blue and darker pink motifs.

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UIC’s Asian American Resource and Cultural Center (AARCC) will host “Unheard Voices of Care: Filipino Nurses in America,” a traveling exhibit that explores the experiences, contributions and legacy of Filipino nurses who migrated to the United States.

“Unheard Voices of Care: Filipino Nurses in America,” will be on display from Oct. 14 through Dec. 4 at the center, at 723 W. Maxwell St., Chicago. The exhibit and all related events are free and open to the public. AARCC is open Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

📣 Calling UIC Students interested in script reading!
We are seeking FIVE UIC STUDENTS interested in participating as narrators/actors to read written passages about the lives of Filipino nurses for our Community Reading event on Oct. 28, 2026.
If interested: reach out to Mr. Angel Abcede, co-coordinator of the exhibit at angelchgo@gmail.com by FRIDAY, OCT 16, 2026.

📆 Join our two free events inspired by the exhibit’s themes of migration, caregiving and community, offering opportunities for dialogue and reflection:

Opening Panel and Reception
Wednesday, Oct. 14
Panel: 3:30-4:30 p.m.
Reception: 4:30-6 p.m.
Asian American Resource and Cultural Center
723 W. Maxwell St., Chicago

Community Reading
Wednesday, Oct. 28
3:30-5 p.m.
Asian American Resource and Cultural Center
723 W. Maxwell St., Chicago
Participants will share readings about the experiences of immigrants arriving in the United States from the 1940s to today.

https://aarcc.uic.edu/filipino-nurses-exhibit/

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Mark your calendars!
📢 From UT Austin to UIC:
A Convening for Critical Gender, Race, and Ethnic Studies 📢

🗓️ Date: Monday, October 26, 2026
⏰ Time: 12:00pm-2:00pm
📍 Location: Institute for the Humanities,
Behavioral Sciences Building (BSB) 153,
🧭 Address: 1007 W Harrison Street, Chicago, IL 60607
🎟️ Registration is required at go.uic.edu/UTAustintoUIC

Come hear from and engage with UT Austin colleagues, Professors Karma Chávez and Iván Chaar López, faculty in what was until recently, the Department of Mexican-American and Latina/o Studies, as we talk about how to sustain and expand Critical Gender, Race and Ethnic Studies and interdisciplinarity at UIC. This is for faculty, students and staff working in any/all interdisciplinary units on campus.

🍴A light lunch will be provided. 🍴

Karma R. Chávez is Bobby and Sherri Patton Professor of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies at the University of Texas - Austin. She is author of Queer Migration Politics: Activist Rhetoric and Coalitional Possibilities (University of Illinois Press, 2013); Palestine on the Air (University of Illinois Press, 2019); and The Borders of AIDS: Race, Quarantine, and Resistance (University of Washington Press, 2021). She is a co-founder of Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine at UT Austin and president of the AAUP Chapter.

Iván Chaar López is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, and the Principal Investigator of the Border Tech Lab (BTL) at the University of Texas at Austin. His research and teaching examine the history and politics of computing and information infrastructures.

CART will be transcribing the conversation, and the Institute for the Humanities is wheelchair accessible and has gender neutral bathrooms.

Co-Sponsors: Black Studies; Criminology; Law, and Justice; Global Asian Studies; Latin American and Latino Studies; the Centers for Cultural Understanding and Social Change; the Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy; Institute for the Humanities

✨ SEE YOU THERE! ✨

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✨️💪 AAMP Large Group Outing Highlight!

In the beginning of the semester, we held a Bowling Party to welcome our mentors and new mentees! People from different small groups and class sessions were able to meet for the first time, and everyone had a great time bonding over pizza, icebreaker bingo, and some friendly competition.

Who will be our top bowling athlete next time? 🤔

Image description: A purple poster with neon light motifs showcases photos of a group of people sitting together in a bowling alley. They are all facing the camera and are smiling. Bowling lanes extend behind them. One picture is of a TV showing people's scores.

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The Asian American Resource and Cultural Center at UIC will host two free events inspired by the exhibit’s themes of migration, caregiving and community, offering opportunities for dialogue and reflection:

Opening Panel and Reception
Wednesday, Oct. 14
Panel: 3:30-4:30 p.m.
Reception: 4:30-6 p.m.
Asian American Resource and Cultural Center
723 W. Maxwell St., Chicago

Community Reading
Wednesday, Oct. 28
3:30-5 p.m.
Asian American Resource and Cultural Center
723 W. Maxwell St., Chicago

#UIC #AARCC #FilipinoAmerican #FilipinoNurses #UnheardVoicesOfCare

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Planning to come to our Philippines History Study tomorrow? Fill out this quick form 📝 (if you see this later and didn’t fill it out, all good! Still come :])
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Come join us for a Philippines History Study, a teach-in of how conditions of the Philippines have changed over time from precolonial history to the current day! We’ll have food, fun activities, and art build while learning about different events and policies that affect Filipino society today! 🧑‍🏫🇵🇭🤜🤛

SAVE THE DATE‼️:
September 18th, 2:00-4:30PM at SCE Rathskellar (atrium lower level)
4:30-6:00PM🖌️ — WE WILL HAVE AN ART BUILD relating around martial law, Pax Silica, and more!

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You are invited!

On Tuesday, September 29th from 5:30-7PM, the Asian American Resource and Cultural Center and the Global Asian Studies program are hosting a film screening at UIC on a docuseries called Southeast Asian American Journeys. The filmmaker, Quyên Nguyễn-Lê, will be in attendance for a Q&A with snacks provided!

ABOUT THE DOCUSERIES:
Produced in association with Southeast Asia Resource Action Center and the Center for Asian American Media, Southeast Asian American Journeys explores the stories of five local SEAA refugee communities who, while being shaped by their resettlement journeys, have transformed the landscape of which they are a fundamental part. The docuseries is composed of five shorts that each focus on a different local SEAA refugee community and topic (e.g. Montagnard, Hmong, Iu Mien, Khmer, and Vietnamese). For more about the topics and communities explored, check us out at go.uic.edu/seaajourneys or follow the filmmakers at @seaajourneys_doc!

ABOUT THE DIRECTOR/FILMMAKER:
Quyên Nguyễn-Lê is a queer vietnamese filmmaker born to boat refugee parents where Chumash and Tongva lands meet in Los Ángeles, California. Quyên’s film work–spanning between documentary and scripted genres–focuses on the ways histories are deeply felt in the quotidian everyday.

Quyên’s debut feature, co-directed and produced with Tad Nakamura, Nobuko Miyamoto: A Song in Movement (2024), uses rare archival material to create a vivid portrait of iconic Asian American movement activist Nobuko Miyamoto’s decades-long artistic career. Recently, Quyên was also an Associate Producer for two Sundance award winning feature films–Julie Ha and Eugene Yi’s Free Chol Soo Lee (2022) and Sing J. Lee’s The Accidental Getaway Driver (2023).

#WeAreGLASHalfFull

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@smellydurianface
@seaajourneys_doc
@uiclas

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New from the Dis/Placements Project! A comic book anthology, “Tales of Uptown”, produced by UIC students from the spring 2026 course, GLAS 300: Global Asia in Chicago, under the instruction of Prof. Anna Guevarra. The anthology features stories of Asian American community leaders and activists in Uptown, Chicago based on oral histories collected between 2017-2025. Students analyzed these oral histories and transformed an aspect of each story visually. The anthology is thematically anchored by the theme of “community,” visually represented by Isabelle Dizon’s @issafdizon cover art.
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Layout by Prof Guevarra and Avni Gupta
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Gratitude to Isabel Garcia-Gonzales, author of Fledgling Comics for introducing us to the world of comic book making
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Read more about our work, learn more about the narrators and the storytellers, and view the full comic book anthology here: bit.ly/talesofuptown or scan the QR code.
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@igargonz
@vai_chicago
@circapintigtheatre
@rizal.center
@cmaachicago
@uicaarcc
@uicaasap
@suryaarienndil
@awin315
@sulhtet
@jjsunii
@hil._.ry
@qsych_.exe
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📣 Calling All Undergrads, We Have More Courses Available! 📣

🗓️ Fall 2026 Course Registration is Open and We Invite You to Check Out Our GWS Breath and Topic Courses! 📚

- GWS 203: Introduction to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Studies
- GWS 242: Introduction to Arab American Studies
- GWS 262: Constructions of Gender, Race, Health, and Human Rights
- GWS 294: Topics in GWS: Dead Girls: True Crime & Gender Violence
- GWS 345: Queer Theory
- GWS 455: Advanced Seminar in Feminism and Justice: Abolition, Decolonization, and Radical Worldmaking
- GWS 462: AIDS, Politics, and Culture

✨ Scroll through for details and visit go.uic.edu/GWSFall2026 (link in our bio linktr.ee) for full course description and GWS course list! ✨
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Sometimes your first choice doesn’t go as planned—and that’s okay! We’re here to help navigate all of the side quests that come with changing directions! Plan B: Exploring New Paths is an engaging event designed for college students who are reconsidering their current direction, whether it’s a major, career path, internship, or campus involvement.

This program, a collab between AASAP and @uicglas , offers a supportive space to reflect, discover alternative options, and connect with resources that can help you pivot with confidence. We will also talk about how to engage your stakeholders in these conversations. Facilitated by professional leadership and career coach Chitra Panjabi, the session will include interactive discussions, peer stories, and guidance to help you identify practical next steps and move forward with a renewed sense of direction. 💡⚡️

🕰️Date/Time: Thursday, April 23 from 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
📍Location: Global Asian Studies, University Hall 1050 (601 S. Morgan St)

Learn more about the speaker, Chitra Panjabi, in the following two slides

Image Descriptions in the comments⬇️

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✨ 🎉 Congratulations to Dr. Gayatri Reddy On Co-Authored New Graphic Narrative, "What Can Hijras Teach Us About Governance, Gender, and Wealth? A Brief and Spectacular Graphic Narrative." 📣

Dr. Reddy co-authored a new graphic narrative published in Transgender Studies Quarterly (TSQ) with collaborator Shakthi Nataraj (Lancaster University, UK). Titled "What Can Hijras Teach Us about Governance, Gender, and Wealth? A Brief and Spectacular Graphic Narrative," this work reflects the kind of interdisciplinary scholarship that the GWS Program proudly supports and celebrates.

This illustrated social history traces how hijras—trans-feminine communities in the Indian subcontinent—have long served as a linchpin in state regulations of social (dis)order across colonial and postcolonial contexts. The piece emphasizes how the regulation of gender often emerges from material regulation, including the governance of livelihoods, kinship structures, and wealth, while also highlighting the enduring resilience of hijras and other communities who continue to thrive despite these systems of control. Designed as a teaching tool, the narrative engages broader audiences in conversations about gender, sexuality, caste, labor, and kinship.

For more information and to read "What Can Hijras Teach Us about Governance, Gender, and Wealth? A Brief and Spectacular Graphic Narrative," visit gws.uic.edu or check out the GWS linktr.ee in our bio!

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Join author @kailayu as she discusses her debut book, Fetishized: A Reckoning with Yellow Fever, Feminism, and Beauty, a memoir-in-essays that explores these themes and the roles that pop culture and colonialism play in shaping pervasive and destructive stereotypes about Asian women and their bodies.

The first 15 people who attend will recive a free copy of the book to take home! (Distributed at the end of the event)

Thurs., April 9 from 5:30-7 p.m.
Richard J. Daley Library, Rm. 1-470
And online via Zoom: go.uic.edu/FETISHIZED

Access needs or questions: lib-engage@uic.edu
Event presented by: The Library’s Undergraduate Engagement Program, Asian American Resource and Cultural Center, Global Asian Studies, Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institution Grant, Great Lakes Asian American Student Services, Women’s Leadership & Resource Center, and the Chinese American Museum of Chicago.

Content warnings for the book and live discussion: mentions of misogyny, racism, homophobia, sexual harassment, and sexual assault.

[ID: Flyer is split with a yellow background on the left and black background on the right. On the yellow background is the book cover and hands holding books. On the black background is a description of the date, time, and location listed above.]

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