Naomi Poesel is the lead guitarist for Babe Haven, an all-girl queer riot punk band. She recently moved to Durham, from Boone, N.C. During the day, she works as a behavioral technician with children who have autism. We got to talk about music, food, activism, and how she finds community as a 24-year-old creative living…
Written by Anna, Fall 2023 NCAAT Youth Ambassador American history is a required part of high school for all students in North Carolina. Yet, for the 300,000 Asian Americans in NC, we wonder: is this our history? Is this truly our history, in a nation as diverse as America, when few to none of the…
Written by Gugma V., Fall 2023 Youth Engagement Fellow On my bedroom shelf sits a half-read book, Noli Me Tangere, by Jose Rizal, a Filipino national hero who wrote about the Spanish colonial occupation of the Philippines and led a peaceful movement for independence. My father, an avid reader, gifted me this book hoping I…