I recently revisited my application for this Fellowship to check in with myself, if I was indeed doing what I said I wanted to do. Sometimes it was easy to lose my bearings as I was knee deep in finding …
Coming out of our Silence
When Will We See Another Citizenship Act?
Reflections
On my visit to Temple’s Special Collections Research Center, I was hoping to find evidence of Indonesian immigration to Philadelphia in the Nationalities Services Center (NSC) archives, but instead I found the immigration stories of our colonizers.
This whole …
What I Wish I Could Find in the Archives
Looking into the archives, I continually had to steel myself about what I may find or may not find.
I went to the Temple Special Collections Research Center in the new Charles Library on Temple University’s campus to look …
Về
Happy Lunar New Years! Lunar New Year is celebrated by people with ancestry in or living in Vietnam, China, Tibet, Indonesia, Malaysia, South Korea, Singapore, and other countries. It is a coming home holiday that honors ancestors, celebrates family, gives …
Farming while Southeast Asian
What does it mean to Farm as descendants of a displaced Southeast Asian diaspora? What would a growing guide that captures our community’s stories of land look like that can be a time capsule of self–determination skills for …
Migration Stories
Who gets to be a citizen in America?
How do you tell the story of people who have been erased?
How can we learn from previous acts of resistance by immigrant communities in Philadelphia?
These are some of the questions …