In this talk, Professor Patricia Nguyen analyzes land and water as precarious landscapes in refugee camps in Tuan Andrew Nguyen’s futuristic dystopic film, “The Island,” to explore his use of archival material to visualize refugee futures in the context of continued war and climate change.
There will be cocktails, a 10-course Chinese banquet dinner, and dancing. All proceeds benefit NQAPIA and local LGBT API leaders to attend the National LGBT API Leadership Summit and Training in 2019.
Willy Wilkinson, Author, MPH, is an award-winning transgender writer and public health consultant, cultural competency trainer, public speaker, and spoken word performer who has been advocating for marginalized population since the early days of the HIV/AIDS epidemic.