Faces of Asian America: Being a History Detective | #APAHM2014
Ellen Wu is an Asian American historian, writer, and teacher with special emphases on immigration, race and Asian America. How…
Category: Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders
Help fund Good Luck Soup Interactive: a participatory story-telling project for Japanese American internees!
Matthew Hashiguchi contacted me earlier today to let me know about his really awesome web-based storytelling project: Good Luck Soup…
Cops caught on-camera hurling anti-Asian insults, assaulting Asian American salon owner
(H/T Yun Xu) Last week, Jianqing “Jessica” Klyzek — the 32-year-old owner of a Chicago-area salon — filed a federal lawsuit…
Faces of Asian America: Being a Composer and Lyricist | #APAHM2014
I am a composer, lyricist, Asian dude. I am a writer of theater living in New York City. Among my…
Adam Carolla: Asians don’t face discrimination, also make terrible comedians
I don’t even… Look, no one is ever going to mistake Adam Carolla with someone who has taste, tact, or wit.…
May 19th is #AAPI #HIV / #AIDS Awareness Day: 10 Facts You Probably Didn’t Know
This is the 9th year that May 19th will be marked as Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, a…
British Columbia apologizes to Chinese Canadian community for historic wrongs
(H/T Angry Asian Man) Last Thursday, British Columbia premier Christy Clark introduced a bill to the provincial parliament offering an…
Faces of Asian America: Being Immigrant, Queer and Artist | #APAHM2014
Trung is a Vietnamese American immigrant queer artist born in a UN refugee camp in the Philippines, who moved…
San Jose woman beats 4yo child & father in alleged anti-Asian hate crime
Caught this in my news alerts this morning: Tuesday morning, a 4-year-old girl and her father were shopping along with the…
#FOB (or #FreshOffTheBoat): How an #AAPI sitcom hopes to reclaim a slur
The news that ABC has made the bold decision to green-light Fresh Off the Boat, a new Asian American family sitcom airing…
Report shows San Francisco’s AAPI residents experience high poverty, chronic disease rates
Jessica Kwong (@JessicaGKwong) of the San Francisco Examiner summarizes a recent report issued by the Asian Pacific Islander Council titled “Asian and Pacific…
Faces of Asian America: Being A Roller Derby Rockstar | #APAHM2014
Thu Ngo is a former roller derbyist who goes by the name Viva Glam. Since the writing of this post, she…