As part of the upcoming Greater New York survey, Flushing, Queens-based collective Red Canary Song presents their Homeroom project Touch the Heart. The grassroots collective is led by migrant massage and sex workers across the Asian diaspora, and formed in 2017 in response to the death of Yang Song, a migrant Chinese massage worker killed during a police raid in Queens. Advocating for essential safety measures, they protested against police violence and argued for the decriminalization of unlicensed massage labor and sex work. Since then, Red Canary Song has expanded into a mutual aid network that foregrounds the experiences of directly impacted workers, providing groceries, cash assistance, translation services, and connection to legal support and person-first health care. Amid ongoing raids and mass deportations, Red Canary Song continues to organize across shifting conditions of visibility.

Join Metoac Indigenous Collective, who are participating in Greater New York 2026, to collaboratively weave a wampum belt. Historically used across northeastern Indigenous communities to record treaties and oral histories, wampum belts feature intricate patterns of beads carved from quahog clamshells or whelk shells found along the eastern coastline of the US.