The fallacy of fuckability politics
By: Tif Shen After a recent breakup, I’ve found my way back to dating apps. I’ve learned that a new…
Category: Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders
Asian American Cowboys and Native Erasure
By Guest Contributor: Dr. Beenash Jafri In 2021, a prominent billboard featuring the photos of three Asian cowboys was erected…
When I worked security for a brothel in upstate New York
By Guest Contributor: Kathryn Clemensts A moment of indecision can have life-altering consequences. I already knew that and I knew…
Find your Place in the Revolution: Grace Lee Boggs’ Final Message to Asian Americans
By Guest Contributor: Scott Kurashige Eight years ago amid the heat of a Detroit summer, legendary Chinese American scholar-activist Grace…
American Citizens for Justice Releases Educational Guide Commemorating 40th Anniversary of Justice for Vincent Chin
This year marks 40 years following the death of Vincent Chin, whose brutal hate crime killing in Detroit, Michigan in…
Am I Asian American Enough?
By Guest Contributor: Mia Ives-Rublee I spent my childhood hearing from white adults about the immoralities of Asians. I was…
Stop Ignoring Our Pain. Stop Discounting Our Trauma.
Nothing stings quite like the pain of erasure. Nothing hurts quite like the onslaught of racial violence rendered invisible in…
REVIEW: The Loneliest Americans is an incoherent rejection of Asian American identity
By Guest Contributor: Sudip Bhattacharya In The Loneliest Americans, Jay Caspian Kang attempts to argue that mainstream “Asian American” politics…
Phở, fuh, and the secrets of Vietnamese noodles
By Guest Contributor: Nam Le “It’s pronounced phở, not fuh.” It is a joyless sentence to say, if I am…
Want to Stop Asian Hate? Start by Passing the Build Back Better Act
By Guest Contributor: Sung Yeon Choimorrow, Executive Director, National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum (NAPAWF) Last year, on the campaign…
Asian American Organizations Issue Joint Statement in Support of Haitian and Black Immigrants
By Guest Contributor: GAPIMNY – Empowering Queer & Trans Asian Pacific Islanders As Asian American organizations and communities, we express…
Adoptees Call For Boycott of “Blue Bayou”
Last Friday, filmmaker Justin Chon’s latest – Blue Bayou – opened in theatres nationwide, and I interviewed Chon as well…