SLI 2025 🕺

Rhyme Time

100

Where 40-stories worth of people are planned to be held without bail

Chinatown Megajail

200

Manufactured stereotype to promote Asian American quasi-superiority

Model Minority 

300

A world without carcerality is our mission

Prison abolition

400

I need therapy, but my family says I am just creating drama

Intergenerational trauma 

500

What the East is called, while the West is portrayed as civilized and gentle

Oriental 

Before and After

100

This photographer shaped the way Asian Americans viewed themselves and the street of the “In the Future” mural. 

Corky Lee Way

200

This 1969 strike that created Ethnic Studies at SF State and the writer who said “we need to move away from this medical model of individual pathology toward a model focusing on the larger structures of unwellness.”

The Third World Liberation Front Line by Mimi Khúc

300

This 1875 U.S. law aimed at restricting Asian women’s immigration under the guise of prostitution and the grassroots group who led the die-in on Wall Street against the AIDS pandemic.

Page Act Up

400

This 1960s Black-led radical group that organized free breakfast programs and health clinics and the term that is defined by the idea of mutual survival work rooted in solidarity.

 Black Panther Party for Mutual Liberation(/Aid)

500

An informal discussion that blends education with activism and an example of Indigenous resistance to an oil project in North Dakota.

Teach-In at Standing Rock 

Where am I?

100

The oldest continuously operating store in NYC Chinatown

Wing on Wo & Co.

200

Worker-owned independent bookstore in our neighborhood

Bluestockings Cooperative Bookstore 

300

In June 1982, 20,000 members of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union rallied here

Columbus Park

400

Once an abandoned lot, now is a community garden

Clinton Community Garden 

500

A community center that provides social services, like legal consulting, food pantry, and social events for senior citizens

AAFE (111 Norfolk; you're in it!)

Who said that?

100

“When we understand love as the will to nurture our own and others’ spiritual growth, it becomes clear that we cannot claim to love if we are hurtful and abusive.”

bell hooks

200

“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare." 

Audre Lorde

300

“Radical simply means ‘grasping things at the root.’”

Angela Davis 

400

“Anti-blackness is like smog— we all breathe it in.”

Kisha Porcher 

500

“The Orient has helped to define Europe (or the West) as its contrasting image, idea, personality, experience.”

Edward Said 

Facilitator Trivia

100

None of my relationships have exceeded 3 days.

Jinyu

200

I’ve stayed up for 3 days straight.

Cal

300

I was named after my dad’s coworker’s dead grandchild— first and middle name

Ishma

400

I sprained my ankle running to a frat during Halloweekend in freshman year.

Taryn 

500

I’ve lived in 8 different places in the last year.

Audrey