APA Compass

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Hosted by: 
Kushlani de Soyza, Sarika Mehta
Produced by: 
KBOO
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A forum for dialogue, exploration, and dissemination of issues pertinent to APA communities

APA Compass is a collectively produced public affairs program.  Our mission is to provide a forum for dialogue, exploration, and dissemination of issues pertinent to Asian Pacific American (APA) communities; to unite, politicize and empower APAs; to raise awareness of social and economic justice issues; to highlight the parallels and intersections between APA experiences and the experiences of other groups; to provide media access, mentorship and training to APAs; to promote APA art and culture; to challenge racist representations and to enable APAs to define themselves. We welcome your comments and feedback. Like us or leave us a message at APA Compass Radio on Facebook.  For an index of past podcasts, visit apaCompass.wordpress.com.

http://kboo.fm/ApaCompass
Topic tags: 
Asian Pacific American, Government/Politics, Immigration, History, Race
Streams: 
KBOO Stream 1
Program status: 
Retired

Vivek Shandas

Airs at: Fri, 12/02/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  APA Compass
Kushlani de Soyza talks with PSU Urban Studies professor Vivek Shandas about environmental and climate justice, and the work of Portland State's Sustaining Urban Places Research (SUPR) lab. You can find out more about the SUPR lab at http://web.pdx.edu/~vshandas/. Read more

Angry APA Minute: Vani Natarajan "Spirit of the Staircase"

Airs at: Fri, 12/02/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  APA Compass
Writer Vani Natarajan reads her poem, "Spirit of the Staircase," protesting the September execution of Troy Davis. She read her work at the annual literary festival of the South Asian Women's Creative Collective at Revolutionary Books in New York City. Read more

Good deeds

Airs at: Fri, 12/02/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  APA Compass
Seattle architect and philanthropist Jerry Lee was recently honored by the White House for his volunteer work. He talks with APA Compass about his latest projects. Read more

Manvee Vaid on Indian Folk Art

Airs at: Fri, 11/04/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  APA Compass
Manvee Vaid is a practicing artist and curator of Indian Art based out of Chicago, Illinois. She experiments with various art media ranging from acrylic, oils, gold gilding and faux finishing to murals. She has a bachelors in fine arts from Sir JJ school of Arts, Mumbai Ind... Read more

Diane Farr on interracial love: "Kissing Outside the Lines"

Airs at: Fri, 11/04/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  APA Compass
Actress Diane Farr speaks frankly about multicultural and mutiracial love in today's America.  In this interview with APA Compass's Andrew Yeh, Diane tells us how she fell in love with an American from a different cultural background, how the relatives learned to accept the... Read more

Angry APA Minute: Movies are Not Real Life

Airs at: Thu, 10/13/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  APA Compass
Sarika Mehta sounds off on some blissful ignorance directed at her as a child and as an adult. She reminisces on Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom from third grade as well as some more recent experiences. Read more

APA Compass, Coalition of Communities of Color Report, June Schumann

Airs at: Fri, 10/07/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  APA Compass
APA Compass's Andrew Yeh interviews June Arima Schumann, co-chair for APANO's (Asian Pacific American Network of Oregon)'s board of directors.  Ms. Schumann discusses the extensive research that's been done over the past few years on people of color in Multnomah County, Ore... Read more

APA Compass Sharon Inahara "The Day We Left"

Airs at: Fri, 10/07/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  APA Compass
Anna Preble interviews artist Sharon Inahara and her father Dr.Toshiro Inahara, who speak about the Japanese-American experience and internment during World War II.  Sharon Inahara's exhibit "The Day We Left" and Oregon Nikkei Endowment's "Taken: FBI" are showing at the Was... Read more

Laura Kina, visual artist and scholar of Asian-American and Mixed-Race Studies

Airs at: Fri, 09/02/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  APA Compass
APA Compass' Andrew Yeh speaks with artist Laura Kina. Read more

"Stretch marks are beautiful, like exotic foreign ladies"

Airs at: Fri, 09/02/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  APA Compass
Kushlani de Soyza sounds off about racism in a recent column published in the Washington Times. Although the author makes some good points about harmful beauty standards promoted by the media, the choice of photos inspired Kushlani to pronounce, "That's racist!" You can che... Read more