“And though my parents took us far away from the site of their grief… certain shadows stretched far. Casting a gray stillness over our childhood…hinting at a darkness we did not understand but could always feel” In this beautifully illustrated…
From Invisible to Visible: 150 Years Later May 9 – 11, 2019 Please join the 1882 Foundation at our 7th Annual 1882 Symposium, an annual gathering of cultural institutions, museums, and federal agencies to connect and strategize on Chinese American…
From Invisible to Visible: 150 Years Later May 9 – 11, 2019 Symposium VII gathered over 60 people together over three days of programming in Partnership with the Smithsonian Institution. Thank you to all of our volunteers and collaborators for…
Written by Alina Lee and Amanda Young (1882 Foundation interns, summer 2023). The 1882 Foundation hosted a conversation with four key changemakers who played monumental roles in building today’s AAPI nonprofit organizations at the I Street Conference Center on Saturday,…
Trigger Warning: This graphic novel depicts and describes instances of sexual violence. Figure 1.1. Book Cover Grass, illustrated by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim and translated by Janet Hong, is a harrowing graphic novel that narrates the stories of comfort women during…
“Every adoption requires a family to be broken apart. Yet, you never hear about that grief” Lisa Wool-Rim Sjöblom in Palimpsest: Documents From a Korean Adoption illustrates the process of investigating her adoption documents to better understand her origin story.…