Unpacking Get Out’s “Asian” character
By Guest Contributor: Melissa Phruksachart (@mphruksachart) Though Jordan Peele’s Get Out has been primarily read (and marketed) as an excoriation of white…
Category: Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders
BREAKING: Gold Star Father Says his Travel Privileges are being “Reviewed”?
Khizr Khan, the Pakistani American and Muslim father of US Army Captain Humayun Khan who was killed in 2004 while…
Where is America’s Outrage over Hate Crime Killing in Olathe?
Last week, a man was shot and killed because of the colour of his skin. It was a warm Wednesday…
Security Guard who Killed “Pokemon Go”-Playing Grandfather Faces Murder Charges
A security guard who shot 60-year old Jiansheng Chen in Chesapeake, Virginia last month now faces second-degree murder charges, and the…
Travel Bans and Incarceration Camps: A Country that Forgets its History is Poised to Repeat It | #DayofRemembrance
75 years ago today, an American president passed an executive order that led to the forcible removal and incarceration of…
BREAKING: Most of President’s Advisory Commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders Just Resigned in Protest
In a joint letter delivered to the president yesterday (and shared to NBC News Asian America), 10 out of the…
Memo to Non-Asians: Jeannie Mai is not Brenda Song, and Riz Ahmed is not Dev Patel | #NotAllTheSame
It’s only been a month since racist Trump trolls misidentified a woman at Rex Tillerson’s confirmation hearing as Washington Post editor Doris Truong, Inside Climate News’ Lisa…
Renowned Novelist Bharati Mukherjee Dies at 76
Bharati Mukherjee, author of prominent novels such as Jasmine and The Tiger’s Daughter, died on January 28, 2017. She was 76. Mukherjee…
Apply to Conference on Asian Pacific American Leadership (CAPAL)’s Scholarship and Internship Programs!
Are you looking for an awesome opportunity to learn more about and build a career in AAPI public service and…
Senator Hirono, Will You Join Our Resistance? | #DearMyAAPIRep
By Guest Contributor: Mark Tseng Putterman (@tsengputterman) Dear Senator Hirono (@mazieforhawaii), On inauguration day, you promised your commitment to “resist…
REVIEW: Totally Awesome Hulk #15 (and the Asian American Superhero Team-Up You’ve Been Waiting All Your Childhood For)
When I was a kid, I could count on the fingers of one hand the number of mainstream Asian American…
Reappropriate Joins 100+ AAPI Orgs in Statement of Collective Resistance Against Trump Era | #AsiansResist
Reappropriate has proudly joined over a hundred Asian American & Pacific Islander (AAPI) organizations who have come together to sign…