APEX Express
A weekly magazine-style radio show featuring the voices and stories of Asians and Pacific Islanders from all corners of our community. The show is produced by a collective of media makers, deejays, and activists. This week we feature APIENC’s Dragonfruit Podcast focused on AAPI queer elders and their activist stories.
Dragon Fruit Podcast Episode 1 | Sharing our Harvest: Fruits of QTAPI Movement Organizing
Miko Lee: Good evening. This is Miko Lee, and you’re listening to apex express where we focus on the Asian American and Pacific Islander experiences. Tonight we’re proud to present the dragon fruit project, an international project that explores queer Asian and a Pacific Islanders and their stories about love and activism in the sixties, seventies, eighties, and nineties.
As he spent the summer fighting fires, Pike Hotshots firefighter Sol Griffith felt inspiration strike.
“With 2020 being such a historic wildfire year, with over nine and a half million acres burned, there are always injuries,” says Griffith, a Colorado Springs resident. “And unfortunately, we have deaths in fires, and the real question is how do you help or give back?”
The former Army wildland firefighter decided to take old materials used during firefighting to create something that could help raise money for the Eric Marsh Foundation, an Arizona-based nonprofit that helps assist the families of wildland firefighters killed in the line of duty and wildland firefighters with post-traumatic stress disorder.