Toronto Sun issues lame apology over racist & sexist political cartoon
Last week, I posted about a seriously ill-advised political cartoon published by the Toronto Sun just a day prior to Toronto’s…
Category: Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders
Where I’ve been for the last 2 weeks: campus & radio appearances!
Regular readers of this blog might have noticed that I’ve been seriously M.I.A. for the past two weeks. For the…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Asian Americans would not lose out under affirmative action
Last week, I reported about an updated survey jointly conducted by the National Asian American Survey (NAAS) and the Field…