Young Texas Asian Americans don’t feel represented in government

AUSTIN, TEXAS. — Austin, Texas is known as a liberal haven in a famously red state. The city should be…

Filipinx American Identity: A Personal (Ongoing) Journey of Positionality 

About a year ago, I stood before the faculty and students of my psychology graduate program and declared, “Before I…

Asian Americans must reckon with how the fight to remove affirmative action is rooted in anti-Blackness

Asian Americans must reckon with the fact that this latest blow of injustice was made in our name. Again.

Where I Am Really From: Or, Sometimes I Think About the Etymology of ‘Gook’

Sometimes I think about the fact that Robert Aaron Long carried out the 2021 Atlanta spa shooting on the fifty-third anniversary of the infamous massacre at Mỹ Lai.

I’m a Southeast Asian American educator. My community will not be weaponized against affirmative action.

I am from district Nha Be in Vietnam, just a bit outside of Saigon.  I immigrated to Minnesota with my…

Helen Gym’s Campaign for Philadelphia Mayor and the Future of U.S. Politics

By Scott Kurashige Philadelphia’s mayoral race is heating up, and Asian American community activists are deeply invested in the fight…

Find your Place in the Revolution: Grace Lee Boggs’ Final Message to Asian Americans

By Guest Contributor: Scott Kurashige Eight years ago amid the heat of a Detroit summer, legendary Chinese American scholar-activist Grace…