Submit Your Event - Asian American & Pasifika Heritage Month

Unsettling Asian America: Amplifying Voices for Global Liberation

This year’s Asian American & Pasifika Heritage Month theme centers solidarity with ongoing movements for global liberation, inspiring us to both interrogate the limitations of “Asian America” and explore its possibilities for deepening intersectional solidarities. We intentionally adopt the term ‘Pasifika’ to recognize and honor the unique histories, culture, and political movements of Indigenous Island communities that are often silenced through aggregate terms like ‘Asian American’ or ‘Asian & Pacific Islander.’ “Asian American” has always been a strategic term–as such, we call careful attention to the harm of these monolithic labels, while also recognizing the collective power in banding together, not to reduce or equate, but to address the interconnected systems of Western imperialism, racial capitalism, and empire that enact violence on our communities.

Asian America is intertwined with Indigenous, Black, Latine, and Arab movements for liberation, and we have a responsibility to complicate and challenge narratives to build coalitions--including with Palestine and the Pacific, to co-create a new vision of freedom that unites us beyond the global systems of oppression that link our histories. Freedom, as Angela Davis has taught us, is a constant struggle. We are not free until we are all free.

To have your events included on this year's calendar, please submit your event on this Asian American & Pasifika Heritage Month Heritage Submission Form by MONDAY, APRIL 15, 2024 @ 12PM/Noon. 

All events through the spring quarter (April through mid-June 2024) will be accepted.  Due to the number of events submitted, space on the print calendar may be limited so we will prioritize events in the month of May from current Stanford groups and departments.  All other events will be included on the online comprehensive calendar. If you have any questions, please direct them to a3cstanford@stanford.edu.