Birthright Citizenship and How the GOP is Abandoning Asian American Voters
Asian Americans voters are America’s fastest growing population of voters, growing from 1.6% of registered voters in 1996 to 3.4% in…
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The New York Times Doubles Down On Its Erasure of AAPI Student Victims of Suicide
When we were freshmen first entering Cornell, an older student told Snoopy in a dubious effort to introduce us to the…
Jindal Cuts Medicaid Funding for Planned Parenthood as Senate Efforts to Defund Group Fail
In the wake of a smear campaign against Planned Parenthood — one of the nation’s largest healthcare service providers for…
Affirmative Action in China and the US: Chapter 1 | #ReappropriateReads
My mom and I have never really had the kind of relationship where we talked extensively about politics. However, one…
Why is the New York Times Rendering the Suicide Deaths of Asian American Students Invisible?
This post was written with input and inspiration from Snoopy. Yesterday, the New York Times profiled Kathryn DeWitt, a young University…
AAPI Civil Rights Groups File Amicus Brief Opposing Asian American Band “The Slants”
It’s Asian vs. Asian, once again. Earlier this year, I profiled the Oregon-based Asian American rock band, “The Slants“, whose…
BREAKING: Nan-Hui Jo Released From Federal Custody | #StandWithNanHui
Activists tell me that Nan-Hui Jo — the Korean survivor of domestic abuse who fled her abuser with her young…
Federal Civil Rights Charges Filed in SWAT Raid That Maimed Baby | #JusticeForBouBou
I wrote earlier this year about the story of Baby “Bou Bou” Phonesavanh, a toddler who was disfigured and permanently…
Affirmative Action in China and the US: Introduction | #ReappropriateReads
About six months ago, I was reading Frank Wu’s Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White, and I commented…
Wesley Clark Calls for Modern Day Incarceration Camps Styled After Those Used During WWII
Retired US Army General Wesley Clark — who ran unsuccessfully to represent the Democratic party in the 2004 presidential primaries…
“Advantageous”: Smart, Subtle and Sorrowful Science Fiction By Women of Colour Filmmakers
“We’re looking for someone that’s a little more… universal.” This line — uttered by James Urbaniak’s character Fisher in Jennifer…
Dept. of Education Dismisses Complaint Filed Against Harvard By anti-Affirmative Action Asian American Groups
In a completely unsurprising turn of events, the Department of Education yesterday dismissed an administrative complaint filed in May against…