A Presentation by Skyler Chin and Olivia Facini
(virtual, 2021)
The opposite of love isn’t hate, it’s apathy. Silence erases our humanity.
Activist Amanda Nguyen
For 2021 AAPI Heritage Month and in support of the #StopAsianHate movement, Illegal partnered with community organizations and schools to host virtual presentations about how storytelling and arts activism can combat hate and inspire empathy. Illegal was honored to be featured at the OCA-Asian Pacific American Advocates National Summit.
Our featured performers were Skyler Chin, Sondrine Lee Bontemps, Nicholas Leung, and Sita Sunil.
Some of our awesome partner organizations:
- Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation (official community partner)
- Apex for Youth
- Asian American / Asian Research Institute at CUNY
- Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (official community partner)
- Chinese Community Center of Flushing
- Chinese Historical Society of America
- Coalition of Asian Pacific Americans
- Great Neck South High School
- Manhasset School District
- OCA-Asian Pacific American Advocates
- Queens Public Library – Flushing Library
- The Nueva School
- Yale Associations of Rhode Island and Cape Cod
Many thanks to our Community Partners
