Stephanie KyeongSeon Drenka
@stephaniedrenka
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📚 executive director, @dfwasianhistory & @museumasiantexans ⚖️ media relations, @txcivilrights ✍🏼 facilitator, @theopedproject 🗣️ views expressed are own
Dallas, TX
Joined March 2011
The echoes of history are deafening. And they demand more than remembrance. We must refuse them.
stephaniedrenka.com
Texas and Chicago are the two U.S. cities I consider home. My heart is breaking for both of them. In Texas, concertina wire cuts into the Rio Grande. Arbitrary fences divide communities and...
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I haven’t seen as much footage from Gaza, even though the massacres continue. Then the sickening realization: Israel killed nearly every journalist documenting the genocide
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The flotilla is less than 100 miles from Gaza. Israel openly threatens civilian casualties as it prepares to attack ships carrying hundreds of humanitarians & baby formula. All eyes on #GlobalSumudFlotilla
🚨The brave activists on board the flotilla have asked for all eyes to stay on them tonight as they near the danger zone. There's a tracker here: https://t.co/0Jwd8mJBlV. And YouTube feed here: https://t.co/DKzN8p9sQf.
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🚨NEW: For the first time EVER, the largest group of people arrested in the interior and detained by ICE are people with NO criminal record. As of yesterday's data release, 40%(!) of those arrested in the interior and detained by ICE had no prior conviction or pending charges.
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Remember that ICE shooting: these are the victims. “He was trapped inside that van, shot as if he was not a human,” Ms. Rodriguez said. “How can you defend yourself when your hands and feet are tied up?”
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Miguel Ángel García was critically injured in a shooting at a Dallas ICE facility, where Norlan Guzman-Fuentes was also killed. Early portraits of the victims are emerging.
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This is UNACCEPTABLE. A Border Patrol agent was caught on camera saying that when people in his custody would ask for a doctor, he'd refuse to get them medical help — in part because he views migrants as "animals."
The agent admits he treats immigrants like "they're animals" and that he tells his kids that they are animals "all the time"
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To do what they are doing at this scale you have to dehumanize. It's just not possible to be this cruel and believe that these people are just like anyone else.
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Body camera footage released from the raid shows agents referring to immigrants as 'animals.'
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DALLAS ICE INCIDENT: There's a heavy police presence off I-35E in northwest Dallas, where sources say three people were wounded at an ICE facility. A shooter was found dead on the roof of a nearby building, sources tell WFAA. More: https://t.co/lbgyCMdTsK
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Leqaa Kordia is a 32-year old Palestinian woman from the West Bank who was kidnapped by ICE in March 2025 for participating in a protest at Columbia University. She is still detained at the Prairieland Detention Facility in TX, where 16 anti-ICE protestors are also being held 🧵
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Supreme Court Justices, divided 6-3 along ideological lines, puts a on hold a federal district judge’s order and will allow the Trump administration to conduct “roving” raids by ICE in Los Angeles again. https://t.co/54DqIlHa98 This portion of the Sotomayor dissent says it all:
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Targeted for Gaza protests: The Palestinian still in US custody
middleeasteye.net
Leqaa Kordia's lawyers tell Middle East Eye she was not even aware she did not possess the correct visa status
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🇮🇳🏏 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:
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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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People like Stephanie and what became @museumasiantxns is what inspired the Asian American Bustle project. Through the project our team got to share the stories of how different Asian communities made North Texas their home
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 https://t.co/w8D0Vr2Zvh
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Back in China? Nah, he’s too busy serving Texans by thwarting racist gerrymanders, and living rent free in your head.
Is Gene Wu back in China?
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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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To all my Dallas / Fort Worth moots, please check out the Museum of Asian Texans run by @stephaniedrenka. This was a LONG time coming so please come by and learn a bit about the secret history of Asian Americans in the Lone Star State.
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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