(REPOST) Solidarity with Anti-Imperialist Struggles: A Creative Mapping Workshop
Location
The Commons : 331
Date & Time
October 23, 2025, 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Description
Solidarity with Anti-Imperialist Struggles: A Creative Mapping Workshop
The Global Asias Initiative is collaborating with student
organizations, Anakbayan UMBC and Binhi Friends of the Filipino People
in Struggle, to bring you this interactive presentation & workshop.
Reframing Global Asias guest speaker, Shengxiao "Sole" Yu will lead the
audience through an introduction to imperialism and anti-imperialist
activism. Anakbayan & Binhi will provide case studies centered
around youth anti-imperialist organizing, with specific attention to the
Filipino context. We'll then lead participants through a mapping
workshop that weaves personal story-telling in with brainstorming
anti-imperialist interventions.
Thursday, October 23, 2025
6-8pm
Location: Commons Room 331
6-8pm
Location: Commons Room 331
Dinner provided from Mama Rosa Grill (Filipino)!
About the Reframing Global Asias guest speaker:
Shengxiao Yu, known by her nickname Sole, is a speaker,
facilitator, writer, and social justice educator. She is the creator of
Nectar, a space where she provides political education for the community
through giving keynote speeches, facilitating workshops, and providing
thought leadership. In 2024, Sole served as the activist-in-residence at
the Asian American Studies Center at the University of California, Los
Angeles. In this capacity, Sole conducted research to more deeply
understand the AAPI electoral landscape and the role of mis- and
disinformation. Sole is a writer for the Xin Sheng Project, a platform
combating misinformation in the Chinese diaspora community by publishing
in-language, progressive articles that shift perspectives and build
intergenerational power. As a generation 1.5 Asian American, Sole is
also working to build community among her fellow Asian Americans in
order to build socio-political power and to lift up her lineage. Sole is
inspired by BIPOC activists, grassroots community leaders, and all the
intersectional movement ancestors who have paved the way.
About Anakbayan UMBC:
Anakbayan UMBC is a chapter of the national, comprehensive youth
mass organization fighting for National Democracy in the Philippines. In
history, there is an emphasis that Filipino youth are crucial in order
to change the existing exploitive and rotten system and replace it with a
progressive and developed system. Anakbayan serves as the comprehensive
organization of the youth that strives to win over the broadest number
of youth to the side of genuine change
About Binhi FFPS UMBC:
Binhi FFPS (Friends of the
Filipino People in Struggle) is a solidarity organization made up of
UMBC students, focused on advocating for the Filipino people's active
struggle for sovereignty and liberation as well as ending U.S. backed
human rights violations and war profiteering in the Philippines. We call
on other students to raise the need for us to take a position against
the use of our skills and knowledge to crush the liberation struggle in
the Philippines and strengthen US imperialism, and instead stand with
the millions of Filipinos fighting to end imperialist control of their
homeland.
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This event is part of the Reframing Global Asias Conversation
Series. For the conversation series this fall, the Global Asias
Initiative is hosting guest speakers Shengxiao "Sole" Yu and Dr.
Joyhanna Jung Yoo for a series of workshops & lectures.
Non-UMBC attendees: please e-mail Priya at priyab@umbc to RSVP and to receive a free parking pass
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This event is open for full participation by all individuals
regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, or any other
protected category under applicable federal law, state law, and the
University's nondiscrimination policy.
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