Asian Americans Run for Something: Tram Nguyen | Candidate for MA State Rep, 18th Essex District
This year, a record number of Asian Americans are running for public office at the local, state, and national level.…
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US Census’ Proposed New Citizenship Question Will Lead to Undercounting of Asian Americans | #CensusNotCensure
For the first time in over fifty years, the US Census is planning to ask respondents about their citizenship status.…
“Cambodian Rock Band” Brings Khmer History to Life through Story and Song
Many of us are the second-generation children of immigrants who survived periods of instability such as the Vietnam War, the…
Asian Americans Run for Something: Zahra Suratwala | Candidate for DuPage County Board, IL
This year, a record number of Asian Americans are running for public office at the local, state, and national level.…
Writing Towards Liberation: Asian American Revolutionaries and the Written Word
By Jenn Fang (@reappropriate), Reappropriate In the grainy black-and-white image – a blurred photocopy of a photocopy of the original…
New York Times Editor Thinks American-Born Mirai Nagasu Is An Immigrant
Perpetual Foreigner stereotype alert: shortly after US figure skater Mirai Nagasu became the first American woman to land a triple…
#NotYourModelMinority: Asian Americans Are Not Your Proof that Donald Trump Isn’t Racist
Asian Americans are not your model minorities. We are not your wedges. We are not your license for guilt-free anti-blackness.…
(Re)Constructing Asian Masculinity: Trump and the “Racial Castration” of Kim Jong Un
The specter of war between North and South Korea has dominated headlines, particularly as President Donald Trump increasingly matches the…
CA Secretary of State Building to be Renamed for March Fong Eu
California’s first female Secretary of State and the first Asian American woman publicly elected to a state constitutional office, March…
L. Song Richardson Named UCI Law School Dean, Becomes Only Woman of Color Dean of a Top-30 Law School
Earlier today, the UC Irvine School of Law — ranked within the top 30 of the nation’s law schools by…
C.B. Cebulski’s “Apology” for Pretending to be a Japanese Comic Writer is Entirely Bullshit
It’s a headline that might have described the antics in an episode of “Family Guy”: White guy pretends to be…
Mother Kicked Off Spirit Airlines Flight For Breastfeeding
The holiday travel season is just around the corner, and so too will likely be air travel horror stories. In…