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Young Texas Asian Americans don’t feel represented in government
Asian Americans & Pacific IslandersElectionsGuest ContributorsPolitics

Young Texas Asian Americans don’t feel represented in government

Guest ContributorNovember 30, 2023November 30, 2023

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

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Filipinx American Identity: A Personal (Ongoing) Journey of Positionality 
Asian Americans & Pacific IslandersGuest Contributors

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

Guest ContributorSeptember 27, 2023September 27, 2023

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

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My great-grandfather had a horse and a pistol.
Asian Americans & Pacific IslandersGuest Contributors

My great-grandfather had a horse and a pistol.

Guest ContributorJuly 7, 2023July 7, 2023

He had a horse and a pistol. He also had a house that was so big that when British soldiers…

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Asian Americans must reckon with how the fight to remove affirmative action is rooted in anti-Blackness
Affirmative ActionAsian Americans & Pacific IslandersGuest Contributors

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

Guest ContributorJuly 5, 2023July 5, 2023

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

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Where I Am Really From: Or, Sometimes I Think About the Etymology of ‘Gook’
Asian Americans & Pacific IslandersGuest ContributorsPersonal Essays

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

Guest ContributorJune 29, 2023June 30, 2023

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.

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I’m a Southeast Asian American educator. My community will not be weaponized against affirmative action.
Affirmative ActionAsian Americans & Pacific IslandersGuest Contributors

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

Guest ContributorJune 15, 2023June 15, 2023

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

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Black and Filipino Solidarity has a Long History Many Forgot
Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders

Black and Filipino Solidarity has a Long History Many Forgot

Guest ContributorOctober 26, 2022June 9, 2023

By Rohan Zhou-Lee When a Filipina American woman in upstate New York was brutally attacked on March 11 this year,…

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The fallacy of fuckability politics
Asian Americans & Pacific IslandersGuest Contributors

The fallacy of fuckability politics

Guest ContributorOctober 11, 2022June 9, 2023

By: Tif Shen After a recent breakup, I’ve found my way back to dating apps. I’ve learned that a new…

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Asian American Cowboys and Native Erasure
Asian Americans & Pacific IslandersGuest Contributors

Asian American Cowboys and Native Erasure

Guest ContributorSeptember 29, 2022June 9, 2023

By Guest Contributor: Dr. Beenash Jafri In 2021, a prominent billboard featuring the photos of three Asian cowboys was erected…

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When I worked security for a brothel in upstate New York
Asian Americans & Pacific IslandersGuest Contributors

When I worked security for a brothel in upstate New York

Guest ContributorSeptember 12, 2022June 9, 2023

By Guest Contributor: Kathryn Clemensts A moment of indecision can have life-altering consequences. I already knew that and I knew…

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

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

Guest ContributorJune 27, 2022June 9, 2023

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

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Am I Asian American Enough? 
Asian Americans & Pacific IslandersGuest Contributors

Am I Asian American Enough? 

Guest ContributorMay 31, 2022June 9, 2023

By Guest Contributor: Mia Ives-Rublee I spent my childhood hearing from white adults about the immoralities of Asians. I was…

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