I am a (Southeast) Asian American Woman
By Guest Contributor: Mandy Diec Trigger warning: this blog post discusses sexual harassment and assault. It has been over three…
Category: Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders
Are you a good desi or a bad desi?
By Guest Contributors: Avani Chhaya & Soham Sengupta Truth is, you can inadvertently be both a good and bad desi.…
Kim’s Convenience Actors Reveal Lack of Korean Writers Led to Behind-The-Scenes Cultural Insensitivity and Racism
Just days after Season 5 of Kim’s Convenience dropped for American audiences, actors Simu Liu (Jung) and Jean Yoon (Umma)…
Remembering Konerak Sinthasomphone
By Guest Contributor: Anna M. Moncada Storti Content Note: Explicit mention of events of child m*lest*tion, s*xual violence, anti-Asian murder…
Amidst strict censorship laws, Facebook is not Vietnam’s Savior
By Guest Contributor: Ngan Chiem At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic last year, the Vietnamese government began sabotaging the…
New Podcast Company Appears to Appropriate Hyphen Magazine Brand Identity
A founding editor of the long-running Hyphen Magazine – the Asian American publication that launched its first issue in 2003…
New Vincent Chin Podcast Never Contacted Helen Zia or the Chin Estate
This post was updated on 5/29/21 to include new developments in this story, including comments from A-Major Media. This post…
Report: Asian American Women Twice as Likely to Be Targets of Anti-Asian Hate
A joint study by the National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum (NAPAWF) and Stop AAPI Hate finds that Asian American…
100+ Asian and LGBTQ Organizations’ Statement in Opposition to Law Enforcement-Based Hate Crime Legislation
By Guest Contributor: 100+ Asian American and LGBTQ Organizations We, the undersigned Asian and LGBTQ organizations, reject hate crime legislation…
INTERVIEW: Gene Luen Yang and Bernard Chang On Bringing the Monkey King to DC Comics
By: Hannah Han DC Festival of Heroes: The Asian Superhero Collection is DC Comics’ newest comic book anthology celebrating Asian…
On the Continued Value of AAPI Heritage Month
May has once again arrived, and with it comes yet another Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI1AAPI is primarily used…
Harvard’s Bad Counsel
By Guest Contributor: erin Khuê Ninh, Associate Professor of Asian American Studies, UCSB Harvard dispensed some royally bad counsel recently.…