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''Where’s the class analysis here?'' Interview Summary Not enough volunteers to outreach to marginalized South Asian community members Needs assessment and mapping of the community Creating gender and class balance in services, outreach and programming Community carries with them the histories of partition, caste, class, religious and regional division from countries of origin Managing growth and coordination of an organization that is largely volunteer Model-minority identity Lack of local and national infrastructure to coordinate, support efforts and share resources Disjuncture and difference in organizing South Asian community in urban versus semi-suburban or more spread out areas that do not have an activate South Asian base Homophobia, classism, sexism, racism, regionalism and religious bias within organizations providing services, advocacy and organizing Lost messaging when approaching community with a political analysis and within the challenging community Manavi 1985 Clients have been primarily Indian, middle class women Build more relationship with marginalized women Not enough volunteers Doing needs assessment on communities not reached yet Difficult talking about sexuality, women on women violence Internally done anti-homophobia training Trikone 1986 The focus has been to provide safe space Commitment of having a 50/50 split for women and men identified folks. Mostly middle class South Bay and San Francisco split South Asian Network 1990 Lack of history from the country of origin Challenges in creating connections with other social issues Buy in to model-minority History of South Asian partition Locally-based, but no national infrastructure Didn’t know what a non-profit status was, funding/money was four letter word Foil 1992 List lost its focus, it doubled – problem of success People didn’t really know each other. Tried to break people on list into regional zones and suggested people meet up Reaction negative that FOIL was trying to organize, trying to be concrete, structured organization
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