Culture Subcommittee

Cultural & Social Events/Food/Language

API ERG Member Cookbook

Browse through recipes shared by API ERG members.  Please share your favorite recipe too.

Watch Janie Pinterits', a program manager in the IDEA office, How to Make Lumpia video

Media Subcommittee

Book Club / Movies/ Music Appreciation

Massie Ballon & Lida Gifford, Co-Chairs

UPCOMING EVENT

Check back soon for next book club which will be held in May 2025.

Previous Book Club Selections

Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen  by Jose Antonio Vargas. “This is not a book about the politics of immigration. This book––at its core––is not about immigration at all. This book is about homelessness, not in a traditional sense, but in the unsettled, unmoored psychological state that undocumented immigrants like myself find ourselves in." - Jose Antonio Vargas, from Dear America

Yellowface by R.F. Kuang Two authors, June Hayward and Athena Liu, were both on their way up in the literary world, but Athena was getting more attention. When Athena unexpectedly dies, her friend steals the manuscript for Athena’s experimental novel about the unsung contributions of Chinese laborers during World War I. June then creates the persona of Juniper Song, misrepresenting herself as the Asian American author of Athena’s novel. 

“Fairest,” said author and artist Meredith Talusan (she/they), is a memoir that “allows me to look at the entirety of my life and understand how I moved through the world in this body over the years.”  Fairest is Talusan’s story and her journey from being a “sun child” in the Philippines to a transgender, white-passing, Harvard-educated immigrant and journalist.                                                                                                                                     ** A joint book club selection with the Lambda Alliance ERG.

Crying in H Mart a 2021 memoir by Michelle Zauner, a Korean American who grew up in Oregon and when she was a young adult, used Korean cooking as a way to cope with the grief of losing her mother to cancer.

They Called Us Enemy written by George Takei, Justin Eisinger, and Steven Scott; illustrated by Harmony Becker.  This graphic memoir recounts actor/author/activist George Takei's childhood imprisoned within American concentration camps during World War II.