Happy Lunar New Year. My name is Stephanie Drenka, executive director of the Dallas Asian American Historical Society. I serve on the Historic and Cultural Preservation Stakeholder Steering Committee, appointed by the City Manager. As such, I recently attended a panel event entitled “Becoming a City that Remembers,” where a council member…
This is 38.
“you are a miracle. act like it. don’t waste it.” (adrienne maree brown)
Dallas City Council Meeting – 1.10.24
Good morning. My name is Stephanie Drenka, co-founder and executive director of the Dallas Asian American Historical Society. Those of you familiar with the city’s racial equity plan might have seen my name on the “Women influence historical events” timeline on page 21. In this plan, mayor, you said that “our goal…
Adoption is not a solution to save Palestinian children. It is a form of ethnic cleansing.
“There is no lonelier place in this universe than around the bed of a wounded child who has no more family to look after them,” posted Ghassan Abu Sittah, a British-Palestinian doctor who treated civilians in Gaza. He told the BBC, “about 40% of the wounded people being brought to hospital were…
Read Palestine Week
The head of Gaza municipality reported today that the State of Israel destroyed the Central Archives of Gaza City, which contained thousands of historical documents dating more than 150 years. On Monday, during the “pause” in fighting, they also discovered that the main public library had been destroyed. An article published in…
National Adoption (Adoptee) Awareness Month
Being in Korea on the first day of National Adoption/Adoptee Awareness Month seems painfully apropos. This trip has been incredible. I feel loved beyond comprehension and so connected to my roots here. Blessed is an understatement. And yet… Being an adoptee means perpetually feeling as though my heart is split in two….