Asian Pacific American Student Development - APASD

Say hi to some of our interns for the 2022-23 school year. We are looking forward to building community with you all this year!

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We are so excited to announce the theme for Fall 2022 PASO is Endless PASObilities! 🤩🚌

This theme shines a light on the fact that incoming students will be entering a new space/environment where they have access to anything and everything. Hopefully, PASO will help them envision how they want to navigate their time here at UC Berkeley.

PASO is the orientation that PASS (Pilipinx Academic Student Services) hosts every semester to introduce the incoming Pilipinx/Pilipinx American Students to not only Campus resources, but also the Pilipinx/Pilipinx American community and show them Pilipinx-specific resources such as orgs on campus, connections, etc...

With these past two years being virtual, we will need all the support we can get to ensure that this year's PASO goes well and helps these incoming students find ease in their transition into UC Berkeley. Join PPC now and/or stay tuned for the volunteer form!!! 🥰

Questions? Email Lanah Duque at [email protected] 📨

We hope everyone is enjoying their winter break!

For folks looking to share some creative energy, we are excited to share Asian American Political Activation Program's first ever zine: 𝐊𝐈𝐁𝐎!

𝘒𝘪𝘣𝘰 is an art zine to explore how the Asian American community can use activism to heal and hope for a better future together.

In honoring the immense loss of these past two years, Kibo is inspired by its dual meaning - "breaking the silence" and "speaking up" in Tagalog and "hope" in Japanese, to allow members of the community to use creative outlets to process, heal, and connect.

To learn and submit, go to bit.ly/KiboZine. Deadline is January 31st!

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We are thrilled to announce that our third and newest intern program, Asian American Political Activation Program has just launched their social media platforms!

Please be sure to give them a like and share!

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Introducing our Graduate Research Mentor - Edwin Carlos (he/him/his)! He is a 2nd year PhD student in the school psychology program and he studies Filipino American and Asian American ethnic racial identity! He is available to talk about 1) finding research at Cal, 2) planning out graduate school application, and 3) talking about academia and community organizing as careers! You can set-up a meeting with him at his calendly in the linktree :)

📗𝔼ℕ𝕋𝔼ℝ 𝕆𝕌ℝ 𝔾𝕀𝕍𝔼𝔸𝕎𝔸𝕐 !📙   
We are so excited to be partnering with Eastwind Books of Berkeley] to host a book giveaway of poet Mai Der Vang’s newest work, 𝘠𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸 𝘙𝘢𝘪𝘯.    
   
She will be joined by for a special reading and discussion on Sept 26th with Monica Sok, author of 𝘈 𝘕𝘢𝘪𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘌𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘏𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘖𝘯.    
   
We want to get as many copies into the hands of the community as possible! We will randomly pick 10 winners. 2 winners will be announced daily from Sept 20th to the 24th.
   
𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘰 𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳:    
📚𝐅𝐎𝐋𝐋𝐎𝐖 Eastwind Books of Berkeley]    
📚𝐋𝐈𝐊𝐄 this post   
📚𝐑𝐒𝐕𝐏 to the event

𝘛𝘰 𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴:
📚𝐓𝐀𝐆 your friends in separate comments.
📚𝐒𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐄 & tag us
   
For our 📙𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐏𝐑𝐈𝐙𝐄📗, we will be raffling off a signed copy to attendees. Make sure you RSVP today at yellowrain.eventbrite.com    
   
𝘔𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘠𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸 𝘙𝘢𝘪𝘯   
Eastwind Books has joined forces with to bring you this exclusive virtual poetry event. 𝘠𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸 𝘙𝘢𝘪𝘯 emerges in defiance of the dominant explanation offered by American Scientists, and restores a narrative of a discredited and ignored people. Wielding words as semantic siphons in poems that sing and challenge, Vang restores a vital narrative in danger of being lost, and brilliantly explores what it means to have access to the truth and how marginalized groups are often forbidden that access. This is an event you definitely don’t want to miss!!!

Thank you to our other event cosponsors, and
   
[Image description: On a light green background with white, black, and orange stripes as decoration a white rectangle has the following text, starting from top to bottom reading " Book Giveaway, Mai Der Vang, Yellow Rain, Author Talk & Poetry Reading hosted by Monica Sok, Free Virtual Event, Sunday, September 26 2pm pst / 4pm cst RSVP yellowrain.eventbrite.com, Grand Prize: A signed copy by the author, see caption for details”. In the center there is an image of the book Yellow Rain, image of Mai Der Vang sitting on a couch in front of a bookcase, and a head shot of Monica Sok]

The MOVE: AAPI Organizing Fellowship is still looking for a ‘21-‘22 fellow for Chinese Progressive Association! Apply today and share widely!!

last week we had our first in person staff meeting since March 2020!

APASD staff is looking forward to the 2021 school year and welcoming you all back a safe and equity oriented manner.

Let us know in the comments the ways you are hoping to engage in APASD this year and how we can support you!

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𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐏𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐀𝐟𝐠𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐭 𝐔𝐂 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐲 
 
Access Link: http://bit.ly/apasdsupports 
 
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Over the last two days, 26 Palestinians, including nine children, were killed by a barrage of Israeli airstrikes and hundreds of others were injured. Palestinian families in Sheikh Jarrah continue to be forced out of their homes by the Israeli government while protestors are being brutalized by police for protesting these evictions. Over 300 Palestinians were injured in the attacks at Al Aqsa (Islam’s third-holiest site) on Friday during the evening prayers during the holy month of Ramadan. 
 
In Kabul, Afghanistan, over 80 people were massacred this weekend in bombings targeting the Hazara Shi’a community, many of them girls and young women.  
 
As an office that is working to support SSWANA students, APASD unequivocally condemns the violations of human rights that is occurring in Gaza, the forced evictions of Palestinian families in Sheikh Jarrah, and the loss of Palestinian and Afghan lives caused by coordinated airstrikes and bombings. We recognize this is a difficult time for Palestinian and Afghan students, staff, and faculty at UC Berkeley as we mourn the lives lost and communities continue to live in fear of escalating violence. We’re grieving with you, and we’re here to offer you whatever support we can on campus. [Above text included in image 2] 
 
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To all Berkeley students, here’s a friendly reminder that the Spring 2021 deadline to change your grading option in CalCentral is Thursday, April 29th at 11:59 pm PST!

To do this, go to CalCentral, navigate to My Academics, click on Enrollment Center, and go to Preferences / Switch Sections. Choose a class that you want to change your grading option for, whether to change to P/NP or letter grade.

For students in the College of Letters and Science, you have until April 30th to request a change of grading option. If you want to change your grading option once it’s no longer available on CalCentral, go to lsadvising.berkeley.edu/policies/late-change-class-schedule for more information.

Good luck with all of your classes as the semester ends! We wish you the best on all of your finals!

Join us on Zoom this Wednesday, April 28th from 6-7pm PT to learn about intergenerational trauma within the Southeast Asian diaspora and steps to learn how we can heal from it.

For more info, check out the link in our bio!

*We will be raffling off a $25 gift card or a book of your choice ("On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous" by Ocean Vuong or "A Nail the Evening Hangs On" by Monica Sok) to attendees!