Youth Perspectives
The IYC Blog
Stories, art, hot takes, and community updates. Written and curated by the interns of IYC.
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YAC is Accepting Youth Film Submissions for Flip the Script!
OAKLAND, CA — The Youth Advisory Council is proud to host an issues-based digital film festival for California youth, titled “Flip the Script”. With two themes and four format categories, young filmmakers and enthusiasts will have many opportunities to win a $200 cash prize. Flip The Script: A Bay Area Youth Film Festival is currently Read More →
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YAC PRESENTS WORKSHOP AT SYMBIOSIS 2020
In February 2020, YAC presented its workshop “Breaking Stereotypes Around Love” at Fremont’s third annual Symbiosis Youth Summit for LGBTQ+ Youth. This year’s theme was “Breaking Stereotypes” – YAC discussed the media, societal, familial, and peer pressures that threaten LGBTQ+ Youth today, as well as fair representation and institutionalized oppression. We ended off with a Read More →
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WHO DO THE POLICE PROTECT AND SERVE?
On August 23, a Black man from Kenosha Wisconsin, Jacob Blake, was shot in the back seven times by the Kenosha police. Witnesses at the scene said Blake was trying to break up a physical altercation between two women when the police were called. In a video taken on a cellphone, Blake walks towards his Read More →
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Stop AAPI Hate Youth Campaign
By Eujean Doo Since the start of June 2020, I have been working on the Stop AAPI Hate Youth Campaign, alongside almost 100 other youth from all over the United States. Stop AAPI Hate is a national campaign created by the SF State University Asian American Studies department, Chinese for Affirmative Action, Act to Change Read More →
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THE CORONAVIRUS IS NOT AN EXCUSE FOR RACISM AND XENOPHOBIA
Posted By Emily Liang As the death toll for the pneumonia-like coronavirus reaches 908 (NY Times), increased cautionary actions have been taken by both the government and individual civilians. According to a Chinese research on the coronavirus, the infection can be “transmitted by saliva, urine, stool… [and] respiratory droplets.” Moreover, those who do get infected are unaware of Read More →
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HOW ARE SCHOOLS STILL SEGREGATED TODAY?
Posted by Dakota Raymundo In the past couple decades racial and economic segregation in schools has been growing. According to a report done by Edbuild, more than half of students nationwide attend a school that is at least 75 percent white or nonwhite. For students of color attending these majority minority and low income schools, Read More →
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YAC HOSTS OUR FIRST YOUTH YOU-NITY!
Posted by YAC Members On November 23, 2019, the Youth Advisory Council hosted our first Youth YOU-nity art show. As an artivism-based community event that aimed to engage young visual and performing artists, creative youth from around the Bay Area came together at Manilatown’s International Hotel to vendor their art and perform to their hearts’ content. Other Read More →
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YAC ATTENDS APILO’S 44TH ANNUAL GALA!
Posted by YAC Members On October 4th, 2019, the Youth Advisory Council attended Asian Pacific Islander Legal Outreach’s 44th Annual Gala. Just like previous years, we, along with other community organizations, APILO staff, and influential members of the Bay Area, came together to celebrate, commemorate, and honor the work that our parent organization has been doing for the Read More →
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HOW DO AMERICANS VIEW MEN IN POWER?
Posted by Cindy Zhu Since the beginning of our country’s history, white men have constituted the majority of political positions, which contradicts the idea of living in a democratic society where all people are represented. Due to their political power, these policymakers have been able to exercise an unfair amount of control over American society, Read More →