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Co-presented by Asian Americans for Civil Rights & Equality and Asian Prisoner Support Committee (APSC), Edge on the Square marks the closing of Walking Stories with an evening of storytelling, resilience, and urgent calls to action. This event features readings from ARRIVING: Freedom Writings of Asian and Pacific Islanders—a groundbreaking anthology written by incarcerated and formerly incarcerated API community members—alongside a panel discussion with APSC 4, beloved community leaders and formerly incarcerated staff members of APSC who are at risk of deportation. 

Walking Stories brings together the diverse narratives that make up the Asian diaspora—histories of colonization, imperialism, and displacement, of systems that divide and punish, but also of communities that organize, dream, and push back. Among these stories is we was girls together by Trần Châu Hà, which traces the journey of Maria Legarda of APSC 4. Her story, featured in the exhibit, echoes the broader themes of ARRIVING, where AAPI community members share their journeys through criminalization, deportation, and reentry. These narratives expose the deep entanglement of the prison and immigration systems, while humanizing and making visible the resilience of those impacted.

This evening, although it marks the closing ceremony of our year-long exhibition Walking Stories, we continue to center the voices and stories of system-impacted individuals. Through the oral testimonies of those still incarcerated and a panel discussion with community leaders of APSC 4, we create a space where storytelling is not just a practice of remembrance, but a demand for justice, and an ongoing, continuing call to action.

Today, as the threat of deportation and criminalization intensifies under the return of the Trump administration, these narratives carry even greater urgency. They call on us to ask: What does it mean to truly arrive, not just in the context of our personal histories, but in the fight for justice that is unfolding now?