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My Family, Your Family, Our Family

September 5, 2005 in Arts, Public Affairs by Nonogirl | No comments

 

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Illustrations by Libby Black

Date: June 27, 2004

Description: While debate over the right to same sex marriage continues, some gay, lesbian, and transgender people are building families regardless of their legal recognition.

A new coloring book created by artists Libby Black and Jennifer Lovvorn shares images of these families so that the children of LGBTQ families and “traditional” families alike, can be exposed to different kinds of families.

Broadcast History: Pacifica’s LGBTQ National Pride Coverage

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Queer Youth and Child Sexual Abuse

April 6, 2005 in Public Affairs by Nonogirl | 1 comment

 

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Description: A group of us at KPFA have been working on a queer youth series in collaboration with National Radio Project. The concept is to place a queer lens on youth issues. We developed 12 segments to fit into four themes; the first show dealt with identity.

I worked on this piece, which was to be part of the health and safety show, but our time line fell off track, so we just took the three completed shows and packaged them together: queer youth in the foster care system, surviving child sexual abuse (my piece), and disabilities.

Broadcast History:
National Radio Project’s Making Contact
Pacifica LGBTQ Pride National Coverage

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Who Owns Our Water

January 5, 2005 in Public Affairs by Nonogirl | No comments

 

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Description: My dad surprised me in July when he complained about a water shortage on Maui. I thought, “A water shortage in this lush and green state!? How can that be?” and I’m sure others suffer the same confusion. But once again, it’s an issue of how to best utilize resources and often it’s money talking, not science, culture, nor tradition.

When I heard Crossing East would send me to Hawaii in November to conduct interviews, I tried to maximize the trip and pitched this water story to two outlets.

Justin at NRP helped a great deal with their version and it’s the lead story. The Pacific Time version was held up because of a different water issue that took precedent: the Indonesian tsunami!

Broadcast History:
National Radio Project’s Making Contact,
KQED’s Pacific Time
Winner of a 2006 Asian American Journalists Association’s National Journalism Award in Radio

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5 Song EP

January 1, 2002 in Arts, Music, Personal, Public Affairs by Nonogirl | No comments

 

Memorial near Ground Zero

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Description: I didn’t know how to respond after 9/11, but the community around me built on existing infrastructure to quickly support the soon to be scapegoated Muslim American community and demand a peaceful response to the 9/11 destruction.

I captured these responses including the dance community raising funds for South Asian victims of hate crimes, a peace vigil in Japantown’s Peace Plaza, and a Walk of Shame to the consulate of several Asian countries for buying into Bush’s war on terror.

Collaboration: Because of the controversial issues this piece raises about forms of patriotism, I really wanted to be able to share the work in a gathered community rather than in isolation through radio. Dhamaal‘s Janaka Atugoda helped me hook up with their video crew and Kyle Burrows/Skip Intro helped me create figurative moving images to accompany my audio.

We made a master track with color and movement, which Skip Intro then would use to mix in other video sources in a live “jam” for an improvised element to the screening.

Broadcast History :
KUSF’s Radio Segue
KPFA’s Morning Show
KPFA’s Apex Express
Post-Day of Remembrance screening
Visual Communication’s Los Angeles Asian Pacific American Film and Video Festival 2002
Locus Arts’ Color of Patriotism 2002
Foundation of Independent Asian American Media’s Chicago Asian American Showcase 2003

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Kimo’s Shutdown

April 26, 2001 in Music, Public Affairs by Nonogirl | No comments

 

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Description: The dotcom boom affected everyone and when neighbor complaints threatened to shut down music venue Kimo’s, Radio Segue asked me to cover it.

Broadcast History: KUSF’s Radio Segue

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Cover to Cover

December 5, 2000 in Music, Public Affairs by Nonogirl | No comments

 

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Description: As San Francisco’s changing economy trickled down to musicians and artists as well as local residents, the Popular Noise Foundation formed to respond to the needs of local musicians. To raise funds, this non-profit organization started a benefit called Cover to Cover.

This was a fun show where local bands covered songs originated by other local bands!

I still hadn’t learned the art of producing stories, so this is a long piece mostly with Sheetal Singh from PNF.

Broadcast History: KUSF’s Radio Segue

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Same-Sex Marriage

April 15, 2000 in Public Affairs by Nonogirl | No comments

 

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Description: In celebration of the California Supreme Court ruling today, I dig up this piece from the Nonogirl archives.

The Russian River is an hour and a half retreat from San Francisco’s city life and plays host to hundreds of lesbians during Women’s Weekend.

In April 2000, I joined the party with my tape recorder in hand, capturing this voxpop filled with reminders of the discrimination that gay people continue to experience even in the liberal Bay Area and of the power of love to combat even the most hate-filled legislation.

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