Practicing Futures

what does empire look like when it lives inside you? 🔪 join us at @eveofdurham for a #aapihm reading + discussion of TORN: Asian/white Life and the Intimacy of Violence by @stortiii & its companion guide TORN OPEN, a political education resource by @time.bianca @practicing.futures and call to action for mixed Asian/white and Asian American communities. 📍 @eveofdurham , Durham 📅 Wednesday, May 13 🕕 6–9pm 🍷 1/2 price wine bottles all night @stortiii ’s new book (@dukeuniversitypress , 2026) asks how US imperialism happens inside our families, our desires, our sense of self. for AAPI heritage month, Torn refuses easy answers and asks mixed Asian/white and Asian American communities to start asking hard questions. #AAPIHeritageMonth #AsianAmerican #waisan #PoliticalEducation

what does empire look like when it lives inside you? 🔪 join us at @eveofdurham for a #aapihm reading + discussion of TORN: Asian/white Life and the Intimacy of Violence by @stortiii & its companion guide TORN OPEN, a political education resource by @time.bianca @practicing.futures and call to action for mixed Asian/white and Asian American communities. 📍 @eveofdurham , Durham 📅 Wednesday, May 13 🕕 6–9pm 🍷 1/2 price wine bottles all night @stortiii ’s new book (@dukeuniversitypress , 2026) asks how US imperialism happens inside our families, our desires, our sense of self. for AAPI heritage month, Torn refuses easy answers and asks mixed Asian/white and Asian American communities to start asking hard questions. #AAPIHeritageMonth #AsianAmerican #waisan #PoliticalEducation 🎧 1965 exploitation film ft Tura Santana 📽️ Daniel Holtzclaw, Elliot Rodger’s, Emma Sulkowicz, Chanel Miller, Joanna Gaines, Andrew Cunanan, Usha Vance, Ocean Vuong, Alysa Liu, Hudson Williams

🗣️ WASIANS “Instead of engaging with the age-old question ‘What are you?’ Torn moves the conversation forward and asks, ‘Where will you go from here?’” This AAPI Heritage Month, join professor @stortiii + @time.bianca for a FREE workshop at @peoplessolidarityhub Torn Open, designed and produced by @time.bianca @practicingfutures , is a reader’s companion to @stortiii ’s book Torn: Asian/white Life and the Intimacy of Violence (@dukeuniversitypress 2026). Torn Open was created as a political education resource built for mixed Asian/white and Asian American communities, featuring key concepts, reflection prompts, and calls to action. Anna and Bianca will facilitate conversation and activation around the book’s main themes: anti-imperialism, feminist activism, queerness, intimacy, and survival. Together, we’ll read, discuss, and map how choices move us toward empire or away from it. 📅 Tuesday, May 12 | 5:00 – 7:30 PM 
📍 People’s Solidarity Hub | free & open to community — Dr. Anna M. Moncada Storti is a writer, professor, and interdisciplinary scholar of feminist theory, queer of color critique, and Asian American Studies. Her work explores the aesthetic and affective relations between race, empire, violence, and pleasure, specializing in art and culture across the Asian diaspora. Since 2021, she’s been an Assistant Professor of Gender, Sexuality, & Feminist Studies at @dukegsf where she also teaches in the Asian American & Diaspora Studies program. Bianca Nozaki-Nasser is a Japanese-Lebanese-Syrian artist, educator, and founder of Practicing Futures, a community creative lab dedicated to reclaiming and reimagining the future. Bianca’s work is rooted in social practice and has spanned across immersive audio video installations, speculative objects, and community engagement programs. She invites collective wrecking and reckoning, exploring the tension between building new worlds and redecorating old ones.

Proceeds from this workshop will be donated to the LA Street Vendor Campaign. No one turned away for lack of funds! How do we dream across borders and beyond them? Saturday, April 18th at @philosophical_research_society , artist and designer Bianca Nozaki-Nasser joins artist and scholar Guadalupe Arellanes Castro to explore how borders, physical, political, and imagined, shape our sense of belonging and possibility. We’ll play with storytelling, mapping, and collective imagination as tools for world building. Together, we’ll explore how ecological, queer, and abolitionist visions can help us unlearn borders drawn around our bodies, lands, and possibilities. @gwadalinaaa Guadalupe Arellanes, PhD is an artist, researcher, and educator. Her PhD research, (Im)migrant Ecologies: Relating Beyond Borders, examines the centrality of “place” and relationality within (im)migrant-led environmental struggles in Southern California in order to consider the abolition of borders and nations. She has lectured at various California universities and presented at numerous conferences. She is one of the first fellows of the Crossing Latinidades Mellon Foundation initiative. Her art explores existential questions while also often centering ecological themes and elements of surrealism. @time.bianca is a Japanese-Lebanese-Syrian artist, educator, and founder of @practicing.futures , a community creative lab dedicated to reclaiming and reimagining the future. Bianca’s work is rooted in social practice and has spanned across immersive audio video installations, speculative objects, and community engagement programs. She invites collective wrecking and reckoning, exploring the tension between building new worlds and redecorating old ones. Over the last ten years, she has developed strategic storytelling and creative media interventions for political education and grassroots movement campaigns. They have exhibited their work across the United States and have co-founded and organized with artist and worker-led collectives committed to radical pedagogy and collective liberation.

Tomorrow we’re back at @feministcenterforcreativework for the next @practicing.futures Speculative Futures Seminar 💫 Big thank you to @levelground.co for inviting me to bring this work to their Social Practice Lab 📸 @yemididit 🫰🏼

Many songs and stories from our youth dared us to imagine. As adults facing a reality that is far from idealized fantasy, what does it mean to imagine today? How do we look at what is here and imagine what could be here?  On three consecutive Wednesdays—August 27, September 3, and September 10—Level Ground presents our Speculative Futures Seminar Series, a skills building workshop for artists, storytellers, and creatives interested in building visions of the future.  Led by artist and educator, Bianca Nozaki-Nasser (@time.bianca ), join us in dreaming beyond moments of crisis and moving closer to worlds we want. 📍 WHERE: The Huntington Library & Feminist Center for Creative Work
 🗓️ WHEN: 5-8pm on Aug 27, Sep 3, and Sep 10 🔗 RSVP: Link in bio (@levelground.co )