Co-presented by Asian Americans for Civil Rights & Equality and Asian Prisoner Support Committee (APSC), Edge on the Square celebrates the closing of Walking Stories, featuring readings from Asian Prisoner Support Committee’s recent anthology, Arriving: Freedom Writings of Asian and Pacific Islanders, and a panel discussion with APSC4.

​Arriving: Freedom Writings of Asian and Pacific Islanders weaves together powerful stories of Asian American and Pacific Islanders journeying from migration to school to prison to deportation to reentry and beyond. These nuanced voices intimately express the pain, regret, grief, forgiveness, resilience, love, and hope that come with personal transformation. This courageous anthology explores what it means to be in the process of arriving—in a moment, in a memory, in a dream, in a home, in yourself—when we dare to heal.

These stories, like those represented in Walking Stories, showcase the multifaceted nature of human existence and how in sharing our narratives, we can cultivate interconnectedness, empathy and invested involvement in the world around us.

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