A weekly magazine-style radio show featuring the voices and stories of Asians and Pacific Islanders from all corners of our community. The show is produced by a collective of media makers, deejays, and activists.

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This year’s first South Asia special edition of APEX Express spotlights a discussion with noted South Asian feminist scholar, activist, geek, poet Anasuya Sengupta on decolonizing the Internet and the project she co founded, Whose Knowledge?

In the second half of the show, we turn our attention to the South Asian island country of Sri Lanka. How are feminists and civil society grappling with the ongoing political and socio economic crisis plaguing the country? Listenup next to a discussion I had with noted Sri Lankan feminist activist Shreen Saroor.

Interview with Anasuya Sengupta in collaboration with KPFA’s Women’s Magazine 

Show hosted & produced by Preeti Mangala Shekar

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Welcome to 2019! To kick off the year, we have a conversation with the author of one of the most exciting books of 2018, Elaine Castillo, who released her debut novel, America is Not the Heart. The book follows a medic in the Marcos Era New People’s Army who eventually makes it to the Bay Area suburb of Milpitas. She lives with her mixed-immigration-status family, as a queer, undocumented child care provider. A Spotify playlist Elaine created with music from the ’90s that inspired her novel can be heard by following the link.

Elaine is in conversation with Golda Sargento, co-owner of Arkipelago Books, KPFA graduate apprentice, and resident artist at Bindlestiff Studio. 

This reading is part of a series between Eastwind Books and Oakland Asian Cultural Center. For upcoming events, check out their Facebook page.

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On tonight’s South Asia spotlight, APEX Express producer Preeti Mangala Shekar revisits the much discussed, shared and re-shared #MeToo campaign, but through a disturbing incident from last year, involving “feminist” ally and media personality Aziz Ansari. On the heels of a report detailing the account of a young photographer’s date with Ansari, which quickly degenerated into a harrowing night for her, social media has exploded with both self-proclaimed feminists and others critiquing both parties. But are there two sides? Or just a culture of violence that is trying to pass as normal and routine?

We ask:

Join the discussion on tonight’s South Asia Feminist Special where we also feature commentaries on this issue by a range of South Asian feminists from the Bay Area and beyond.

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A weekly magazine-style radio show featuring the voices and stories of Asians and Pacific Islanders from all corners of our community. The show is produced by a collective of media makers, deejays, and activists.

Tonight the Powerleegirls Miko Lee and Ayame Keane-Lee talk to three talented APA female artists/thinkers/activists telling stories about the Vietnamese refugee experience, Desi feminists and Filipino myths and rewriting the rules about how POC are seen in the comic world.  Rachelle Cruz, Thi Bui, and Shebani Rao

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