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…
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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…
Finding Peace in the End: In Conversation with Blue Bayou’s Linh-Dan Pham
Asian American filmmaker Justin Chon’s latest film – Blue Bayou – opens today in theatres nationwide. In the film, Linh-Dan…
Bringing a Transnational Korean American Adoptee Story to Film: In Conversation with ‘Blue Bayou’ Filmmaker Justin Chon
Asian American filmmaker Justin Chon’s latest film – Blue Bayou – opens today in theatres nationwide. Blue Bayou tells the…
Delaware State Representative Who Used Anti-Asian, Misogynistic Slurs in Email Won’t Seek Re-election
Content warning: Racist and sexist slurs In late June, Delaware State Representative Gerald Brady (D) sparked backlash after an email…