CCNY Junior Wins NY Women in Communications Scholarship – CUNY Newswire – CUNY
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BIG FLOWER EATER: Women in Asian History and American Theater
Join Victoria Linchong, Kim Chinh and Katherine Yew in a conversation about their devised experimental play BIG FLOWER EATER, which explores the untold history of women in Asia through shamanism in three different Asian cultures. Excerpts of the play will be performed and screened. BIG FLOWER EATER is a scholarly and whimsical collage of folktale, ritual, dance and … Read more
COMFORT WOMEN WANTED
Chang-Jin Lee’s video artwork, COMFORT WOMEN WANTED, brings to light the memory of 200,000 young women, referred to as “comfort women,” who were systematically exploited as sex slaves in Asia during World War II, and increases awareness of sexual violence against women during wartime. The video is based on interviews with Korean, Chinese, Taiwanese, Indonesian, Filipino, and Dutch “comfort women” survivors and a former Japanese soldier from W.W.II.
Skeleton Women: A Novel
Author Mingmei Yip will read from her new novel Skeleton Women, a Chinese phrase for femmes fatales. The novel tells the story is about three women — Camilla, a nightclub singer who has been forced to become a spy, Shadow a magician who jumps naked off a tall building, and a gender-ambiguous gossip columnist. All must … Read more
Asian American Women: From the Cold War to the Movement of the 60s
Mary Uyematsu Kao will present her black-and-white photographs from the Asian American Movement of the 1970s and talk about the Asian American Baby Boomer Generation of activist women.
Asian American Women’s Health Symposium: Healthy Living During Challenging Times
The symposium will be of particular interest to health care professionals, health educators, social service providers, students, advocates and individuals who live or work in the community.