🗣️ 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
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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.
