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== Career ==


Mia co-founded [[Hyphen (magazine)|''Hyphen'' magazine]] in 2003 as the photo editor. <ref>{{cite web|first1=Gwendolyn|title=The Academic Feminist: Summer at the archives with the Visibility Project|url=http://feministing.com/2013/08/01/the-academic-feminist-summer-at-the-archives-with-the-visibility-project/|website=Feministing}}</ref> As of 2014, she continues to contribute to Hyphen as a photographer.
Mia co-founded [[Hyphen (magazine)|''Hyphen'' magazine]] in 2003 as the photo editor. <ref>{{cite web|first1=Gwendolyn|title=The Academic Feminist: Summer at the archives with the Visibility Project|url=http://feministing.com/2013/08/01/the-academic-feminist-summer-at-the-archives-with-the-visibility-project/|website=Feministing}}</ref> As of 2014, she launched the LGBT section of Hyphen<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.hyphenmagazine.com/lgbtq|title = Hyphen Magazine Blog|date = |accessdate = 10/19/2014|website = |publisher = |last = |first = }}</ref>.


In 2007, Nakano travelled to Nepal for a photojournalism internship with the Kathmandu Post. <ref>{{cite web|last1=Hing|first1=Julianne|title=Spotlight: Mia Nakano|url=http://colorlines.com/archives/2009/07/spotlight_mia_nakano.html|website=Colorlines|accessdate=19 October 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Ochoa|first1=Cecca|title=A Queer Aperture: Mia Nakano and the Visibility Project|url=http://www.apogeejournal.org/a-queer-aperture-mia-nakano-and-the-visibility-project/|website=Apogee}}</ref> There, Nakano connected with the Blue Diamond Society, a LGBT organization, and collaborated with them to take photos of the Nepal's LGBT community.
In 2007, Nakano travelled to Nepal for a photojournalism internship with the Kathmandu Post. <ref>{{cite web|last1=Hing|first1=Julianne|title=Spotlight: Mia Nakano|url=http://colorlines.com/archives/2009/07/spotlight_mia_nakano.html|website=Colorlines|accessdate=19 October 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Ochoa|first1=Cecca|title=A Queer Aperture: Mia Nakano and the Visibility Project|url=http://www.apogeejournal.org/a-queer-aperture-mia-nakano-and-the-visibility-project/|website=Apogee}}</ref> There, Nakano connected with the Blue Diamond Society, a LGBT organization, and collaborated with them to take photos of the Nepal's LGBT community.

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Mia Nakano is a photographer, filmmaker, educator, printer, activist, a founding editor of Hyphen magazine, and Project Director of the Visibility Project. [1]

Career

Mia co-founded Hyphen magazine in 2003 as the photo editor. [2] As of 2014, she launched the LGBT section of Hyphen[3].

In 2007, Nakano travelled to Nepal for a photojournalism internship with the Kathmandu Post. [4][5] There, Nakano connected with the Blue Diamond Society, a LGBT organization, and collaborated with them to take photos of the Nepal's LGBT community.

Visibility Project

Mia continued documenting LGBT communities once she returned to the United States through the Visibility Project. The Visibility Project is a collaboration with Hyphen Magazine. [6]

The Visibility Project has been exhibited at Ohio State University, [7] the Leeway Foundation in Philadelphia, [8] the Oakland Asian Cultural Center, Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center's Asian-Latino Festival in 2013,[9] Nakano was a panelist at Leeway Foundation's REVOLVE: An Art for Social Change Symposium. [10]Her work has been featured in Colorlines, Kathmandu Post, Motherjones.com, DemocracyNow!, and freethehikers.org [11]

In 2014, The Visibility Project collaborated with Hyphen Magazine to create LGBTQ Hyphen, the first LGBTQ-dedicated section in a nationwide and mainstream magazine. [12]

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  2. ^ "The Academic Feminist: Summer at the archives with the Visibility Project". Feministing. {{cite web}}: |first1= missing |last1= (help)
  3. ^ "Hyphen Magazine Blog". Retrieved 10/19/2014. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  4. ^ Hing, Julianne. "Spotlight: Mia Nakano". Colorlines. Retrieved 19 October 2014.
  5. ^ Ochoa, Cecca. "A Queer Aperture: Mia Nakano and the Visibility Project". Apogee.
  6. ^ "Mia Nakano and Hyphen Magazine". {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
  7. ^ "Mia Nakano's The Visibility Project". The Ohio State University.
  8. ^ "The Academic Feminist: Summer at the archives with the Visibility Project". Feministing. {{cite web}}: |first1= missing |last1= (help)
  9. ^ http://apa.si.edu/asianlatino/art.html. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  10. ^ http://www.leeway.org/events/revolve_an_art_for_social_change_symposium/#.VEQIxPnF9xs. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  11. ^ http://www.visibilityproject.org/about-the-project/contributors/. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  12. ^ http://www.hyphenmagazine.com/blog/archive/2014/06/lgbtq-hyphen-section-highlights-lgbtq-aapi-voices. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)