Third Thursdays

exploring inter-ethnic asian relationships

Thursday, February 15, 2007
7:00-9:15pm
Japanese Cultural & Community Center
1840 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94115

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If you say you only date Chinese, you might be going for the largest pool, trying to appease your parents, or just a bit narrow-minded.

This month, we look at what’s often considered the next most acceptable option, inter-ethnic Asian relationships. We’ll talk about why, what, and leave out most of the how. Join us for some perspective.

* DISCLAIMER: Insert your ethnic group of choice. Third Thursdays does not recommend any particular dating preference or strategy. We do recommend coming to our lively discussion on February 15th.

Panelists include:

• Wei Ming Dariotis
  Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies
  San Francisco State University
• Frederick Y. Huang, M.D.
  Psychotherapy and general adult psychiatry

Moderated by:

Gavin Funabiki
Third Thursdays Organizer

About the Speakers:

Wei Ming Dariotis, PhD

Wei Ming Dariotis is Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies at San Francisco State University, with an emphasis on Asians of Mixed Heritage and Asian Pacific American Literature, Arts, and Culture. Wei Ming Dariotis serves on the Boards of the Asian American Theater Company and of iPride, which runs the FUSION Summer Day Camp for Mixed Heritage Youth. Her recent publications include, “Developing a Kin-Aesthetic: Multiraciality and Kinship in Asian and Native North American Literature,” in Mixed Race Literature, ed. by Jonathan Brennan (Stanford University Press), “On Growing Up Queer and Hapa” in The Multiracial Child’s Resource Book, and “On Becoming a Bi Bi Grrrl” in Restoried Selves: Autobiographies of Queer Asian/Pacific American Activists, ed. by Kevin Kumashiro. She has forthcoming chapters on queer mixed heritage Chinese Americans and marriage equity in the Chinese Historical Society of America 2005 Conference proceedings and on mixed heritage and transracial adoption in Star Trek in A Science Fiction Phenomenon: Investigating the Star Trek Effect edited by Lincoln Geraghty.

Frederick Y. Huang, M.D.

Dr. Huang is a psychiatrist in private practice in San Francisco. He trained at UCSF and was a faculty member there from 2005-2006. He spent two years doing research in Asian American mental health in New York City, and has published several peer-reviewed articles about depression and Chinese Americans. He has also researched immigrants and the significance of their inter- and intra ethnic relationships to identity. He is Taiwanese American and grew up in Wisconsin.

About the Panelist:

Gavin Funabiki
Gavin Funabiki helped co-found Third Thursdays. He has experience in the philanthropic and social enterprise worlds before becoming an applications developer for a national law firm. He’s very interested education, housing and Asian and Pacific Islander community issues. He’s a fourth-generation JABC (Japanese American - American Born Chinese).