Grace Jung’s debut novel “Deli Ideology” explores Korean American identity & history
An apparently epic multi-tasker, Grace Jung (@aechjay), poet and film producer of the upcoming documentary A-Town Boyz (trailer after the jump), also…
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Toronto Sun publishes racist & sexist caricature of mayoral candidate Olivia Chow
(H/T V. Wong, @vywccnc) Torontonians headed to the polls today to elect the city’s newest mayor, someone who will hopefully…
AAPI Rewind: a brand new newsletter archiving all the best #AAPI reads of the week | #AAPIRewind
Are you always trying to stay on top of AAPI articles and news, but having a hard time finding the…
The Marysville-Pilchuck School Shooting and the Intolerable Price of Misogylinity
Last Friday, it happened again; and a nation where school shootings have become terrifyingly commonplace struggled once more to rouse…
Scarlett, you are not my Major Motoko
For the record, I am dying to see a Ghost in the Shell live-action film. I grew up on both the…
How both Bill O’Reilly and Jon Stewart got it really wrong on Asian Americans
So this happened. I guess because Bill Maher’s battle of wits (in absentia) with Ben Affleck over Maher’s latent Islamophobia went…
Reappropriate: The Podcast – Ep. 9 | TOPIC: Gaming While Girl
In this episode of Reappropriate: The Podcast, I am joined by the Ladies of the Roundtable (LORTNation.com, @LadiesRdTable) podcast —…
26-year-old nurse Nina Pham confirmed as first case of US-transmitted Ebola
Last week, Thomas Eric Duncan — a Texas man who contracted Ebola while travelling overseas — died, becoming the first…
Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai & Indian child rights advocate Kailash Satyarthi awarded joint Nobel Peace Prize
Last week, the Nobel committee announced that this year’s Nobel Peace Prize would be jointly awarded to two powerful activists…
Reappropriate: The Podcast – Ep. 8 | Twitter Activism as a Decolonial Project
The newest episode of Reappropriate: The Podcast is now available, and it’s one of my favourite episodes yet! In this episode,…
Harvard’s #AAPI women speak out against racist, misogynistic email death threat & official response
In the wake of last weekend’s emailed death threats that appeared to target Harvard’s AAPI female population, several of Harvard’s AAPI…
Plot thickens with 3rd email to Harvard #AAPI women who received death threats over weekend
Late last Friday, over three hundred Harvard students — most of them AAPI women — received a bizarre, profanity-laden email…