Dear Asian Americans: Stop Erasing Pacific Islanders
By Guest Contributor: Conrad Lihlihi (@clihilihi) Editor’s Note: Earlier this week, entertainment news outlets reported that film project “Ni’ihau” was…
Category: Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders
Speaking Truth to Power is not Cyberbullying: On Tone Policing and Respectability Politics
Last week, Deadline broke the story that writer/director Gabriel Robertson (EastEnders, Bucket, The Gift) was attached to write and direct…
Tell the Government that We Need Disaggregated AAPI Data Today
The Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community is not a monolith. Representing over 18 million people, AAPIs are a diverse,…
The Forgotten: Those Left Behind by Our Myths
By Guest Contributor: Yung Wing We often hear about the success of Asian Americans who are emblematic of the “model…
US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy Dismissed by Trump Administration
US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, the nation’s youngest and first Indian American Surgeon General, was asked to resign on Friday…
Activists Organize Against Border Patrol Plans to Scrutinize Social Media of Chinese Travelers to US
Last month, US Customs and Border Protection announced a proposal to institute a “voluntary” social media check of Chinese travelers…
Support the Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS) in Protesting Against anti-LGBTQ Legislation
This past weekend, I made a whirlwind trip to Portland, Oregon to speak at my first-ever Association for Asian American…
Man Bloodied, Dragged From Overbooked United Flight by Police
An as-yet-unidentified 69-year-old Asian man was physically assaulted by three Chicago-area police officers after he allegedly refused to give up…
REVIEW: I Watched ‘Ghost in the Shell’ So You Don’t Have To
This weekend, Hollywood’s live-action remake of the classic Ghost in the Shell anime opened in theatres nationwide. The film has been the…
Police Killing of Chinese Man in Paris Demands Greater Scrutiny of Police Brutality
Hundreds of people took to the streets of Paris this week to protest the killing of 56-year-old Liu Shaoyo, a father…
26 Years After the Murder of Latasha Harlins, Asian Americans Still Have a Lot of Work to do Around Anti-Blackness
In Charlotte, North Carolina, the Black community is calling for a boycott of Missha Beauty after the owner Sung Ho…
It’s 2017 and AAPI Women Still Aren’t Getting Equal Pay for Equal Work | #AAPIEqualPay
Today is AAPI Equal Pay Day, a day to highlight the persistent wage gap experienced by AAPI women, transgender, and…