Stephanie KyeongSeon Drenka
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📚 executive director, @dfwasianhistory & @museumasiantexans ⚖️ media relations, @txcivilrights ✍🏼 facilitator, @theopedproject 🗣️ views expressed are own
Dallas, TX
Joined March 2011
🇮🇳🏏 Batch of ’83 in Dallas?! Gavaskar. Dev. Amarnath. Shastri. Azharuddin. India’s World Cup-winning #cricket heroes once played a club match on a ground at The Hockaday School. Story by Debjit Lahiri (Forgotten Cricket Memories) & @dfwasianhistory:
dallasasianhistory.org
In the sweltering summer of August 1986, something rather extraordinary transpired in Texas. No cameras, No press conferences. No screaming fans from trailing airport exists. Just a modest cricket...
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Core memory 🥹.
Exploring historic #Dallas Koreatown with tour guide Mr. Charles Park and @hjnchoi 🇰🇷 #OurLegacyIsHere
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RT @hjnchoi: People like Stephanie and what became @museumasiantxns is what inspired the Asian American Bustle project. Through the project….
dallasnews.com
This story is introducing Asian American Bustle, a project designed to highlight Asian American enclaves, old and new, in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
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Hojun was the second person (after @digital_denise) with whom I shared my decision to create @dfwasianhistory. His commitment to uplifting Asian American stories inspired me to preserve them. He is leaving the biggest shoes to fill. And a true legacy for us to continue building.
Shortly before the shooting, I had met @stephaniedrenka, local Asian American historian and advocate. In June 2022, I got to share her story of her finding inspiration, and her own story during her search for historical artifacts.
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RT @atjactionfund: Back in China? Nah, he’s too busy serving Texans by thwarting racist gerrymanders, and living rent free in your head.
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RT @dallasnews: Dallas Asian American Historical Society transforms space into museum about Asian Texans
dallasnews.com
The museum’s acronym, MAT, is also a pun on laundromat, inspired by the laundries operated by Chinese immigrants in Dallas in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
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RT @NaikaVideo: To all my Dallas / Fort Worth moots, please check out the Museum of Asian Texans run by @stephaniedrenka. This was a LONG t….
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"This museum aims to focus on the stories of Asian Texas, told by Asian Texans." - @dallasnews . Read more: . @dfwasianhistory @museumasiantxns.
dallasnews.com
The museum’s acronym, MAT, is also a pun on laundromat, inspired by the laundries operated by Chinese immigrants in Dallas in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
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To preserve is to protest. To remember is to resist. And to build something enduring in the face of erasure is revolutionary. #OurLegacyIsHere.
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We hold fast to our local commitments while building a wider coalition, because our liberation is bound together.
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While the Museum of Asian Texans (MAT) serves a broader mission across the state, the Dallas Asian American Historical Society will continue to focus its core research and preservation work in North Texas.
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Here in the U.S., immigrants are once again being targeted. Our community and allies face surveillance, incarceration, and the threat of deportation. We are watching the worst of history echo in real time.
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As historians, we cannot separate our work from what is happening around us. The destruction of archives, universities, and entire communities is a deliberate attempt to sever people from their history and future.
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We make this announcement as Palestinians in Gaza endure unimaginable violence, displacement, and cultural erasure.
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This is our recommitment to memory, resistance, and the sacred responsibility of speaking truth to power, especially in times of silence and complicity.
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We are proud to announce a new name & expanded vision for that space: the Museum of Asian Texans. Our mission is to shift public narratives by centering the voices, lived experiences, & creativity of Asians in Texas through inclusive storytelling & community-rooted preservation.
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Opening our @dfwasianhistory archive and gallery was a dream come true. We wanted to create a space where our stories could be safeguarded and community members would know they belong. 🧵
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