Funny Asian Women Kollective’s “The Extra Quality Super Show” is happening Nov. 8 at The Fitzgerald Theater.
ST PAUL, Minnesota — Later this week, the Funny Asian Women Kollective (FAWK) will be taking the stage at The Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul to celebrate their 10-year anniversary.
Naomi Ko, May Lee-Yang, and Saymoukda Duangphouxay Vongsay — three English majors, Bush Leadership Fellows, and McKnight Fellows — started the group as a way to combat the invisibility and dehumanization of Asian American women.
“It sounds really serious. All to say, we host live comedy shows; we do professional development workshops and we just do a bunch of random, funny stuff to create spaces for Asian women to tell their stories, uncensored,” Lee-Yang said.
The trio came together one night in 2014.
“It birthed out of Naomi’s trauma,” said Vongsay, causing all three to laugh. “Naomi did a show. She didn’t do very well because she was censored and she didn’t feel comfortable with censoring herself like mid-reading of a poem. That …