UNALIENABLE is a monologue project featuring Americans of Asian descent responding to the COVID-19 Pandemic and its effects on the Asian American community.

Throughout the month of May 2020, virtual theater performances were posted to the Barkada Theater Instagram and Facebook accounts in honor of Asian Pacific Islander American Heritage Month. This is a time capsule of work created by American artists of Asian descent documenting our experiences amid the rise in discrimination and hate directed at the our community because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Wait, isn’t it INalienable?

There has apparently been a centuries-old debate about this, but both words mean the same thing. The word on the final draft of the Declaration of Independence is Unalienable. Check out the full text of the Declaration of Independence here.

ABOUT BARKADA THEATER

Barkada Theater, formerly known as The Barkada Theater Project, was founded in 2011 and is committed to highlighting the experiences of Americans of Asian descent by telling stories that normalize faces and bodies with Asian and Pacific Islander ancestry as Americans while representing the diversity that exists within the broad umbrella what is considered AAPI/APIA. Barkada Theater’s inaugural production, The Duties and Responsibilities of Being a Sidekick premiered at the Minnesota Fringe Festival, directed by Brian Balcom. Barkada Theater’s desire is to create a space specifically devoted to examining the experiences of Americans of Asian descent whose day-to-day existence is influenced by both their American and Asian heritage, whether they were born here in the states or abroad.