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Sep 29
Miriam is a queer, Cuban writer and activist whose work focuses on race, gender and health. Perez is the founder of the blog Radical Doula, a space to connect reproductive rights, birth activism, doula work, LGBT issues, immigrant rights and racial justice and is the gender and sexuality columnist for Colorlines. She became a doula…
Sep 22
Carmen Mojica, also known as Ynanna Djehuty, is an Afro-Dominicana born and raised in the Bronx. She is a midwife, writer and reproductive health activist. The focus of her work is on the empowerment of women and people of the African Diaspora, specifically discussing the Afro-Latina identity. She utilizes her experience as a midwife to…
Sep 15
The Young Lords Party was a Puerto Rican nationalist organization that was prominent in the late 60s and 70s in New York City, inspired by the Black Panther Party and the Young Lords Organization in Chicago. Their mission was to always serve the people and rebuild community structures in majority Puerto Rican neighborhoods such as…
May 26
On our final Friday of #AAPIHeritageMonth, RHAP sheds light on a couple of the elders in the movement who have paved the way for future leaders to engage in civil liberties and human rights. Yuri Kochiyama was born in California in 1921, and was relocated along with over 100,000 Japanese Americans to internment camps…
May 18
Pramila Jayapal is the former senator of Washington state, and the first Indian-American woman elected into the House of Representatives. Born and raised in India, along with being raised in Indonesia and Singapore, Jayapal’s personal journey has strengthened her advocacy for immigrants’ rights, with a focus on women and children. While in senate, Jayapal has…
May 12
Miriam Yeung is the former executive director of the National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum (NAPAWF), a grassroots organization dedicated to empowering Asian and Pacific American women and girls through organizing, education and advocacy. Prior to NAPAWF, Yeung spent ten years at the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center in New York City in numerous…
May 05
Our first feature for #AAPIHeritageMonth is the Academy Award nominated filmmaker Renee Tajima- Peña. Her film work addresses pressing issues in the Asian American and the diasporic community. Her debut film as a director, Who Killed Vincent Chin? chronicles the murder and injustice of a 27-year old Chinese American, Vincent Chin; beaten to death with…
Mar 24
This #WomensHistoryMonth Friday, we recognize March 25th as the 106th anniversary of the tragic Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City. A devastating 146 immigrants of Jewish and Italian descent lost their lives, 123 of them being young women and teenage girls. As the industrial revolution took full force, inhumane working conditions were the…
Mar 17
On the third Friday of Women’s History Month, we bring insight to a Latina pioneer in the medical and public health industry. Helen Rodriguez-Trias (1929-2001) was a Puerto Rican physician and advocate for the expansion of healthcare for marginalized persons (especially low income women and children of color). Her introduction to public health was mainly…
Mar 03
RHAP’s first #WomensHistoryMonth feature goes into detail about the 1875 Page Act- Exclusion of Chinese Women immigrants into the U.S. The Gold Rush of 1848 brought upon an influx of different groups of immigrants to the state of California, including migrants from China. Shortly following, growing xenophobia against this population rose and the United States…