#DayofRemembrance: 12 images of anti-Japanese xenophobia from the 1940’s (and earlier)
72 years ago today, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which established military zones in the West Coast, eventually…
Category: Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders
Baby Isaac is battling leukemia & needs your help!
(H/T Angry Asian Man) Meet Baby Isaac. Last year, Isaac was diagnosed with Acute Myelogenous Leukemia at just 6 months…
Book Review: ‘On Such A Full Sea’ by Chang-rae Lee is engaging & deeply relevant
Chang-rae Lee deviates sharply from his comfort zone in Such a Full Sea, the author’s first foray into speculative fiction. Readers…
Seeking Submissions for “Faces of Asian America” AAPI Heritage Month Blog Series
To all my regular and new readers – I am planning a major blogging event for the month of May,…
For those looking to run an on-campus workshop on #AAPI mental health: my ITASA presentation
I just got back from a great workshop I ran for ITASA ECC 2014 on Asian American mental health and…
Canada cancels investor visas: modern Chinese Exclusion, or a sign that Canadian citizenship isn’t for sale?
Although most avenues of legal citizenship to North America involves skill- or job-based visas, one of the lesser-known avenues of…
When bad satire is served up as a thin veil for hate
I don’t write funny. There’s a pretty good reason for it: it’s tough to do good comedy. In fact, the…
There’s gonna be a Manny Pacquiao biopic, y’all
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qqi_DVcSMPY Shut up.
The problem with that Axe #KissForPeace Superbowl ad
If you were watching that thrashing of the Denver Broncos by the Seattle Seahawks last night, chances are you caught…
Chinese Canadian Comp Sci Prof. asks students to write a program: “Will a rape victim commit suicide?”
Dr. John S. Shieh, a computer science professor at Newfoundland’s Memorial University, is in hot water after asking his student’s…
X-Men #10 kitty-cat variant cover is adorable, but why do the Asian X-men have to be Siamese Cats?
H/T @loudlysilent Because variant covers make beaucoup bucks, both DC and Marvel have been releasing stupid amounts of universe-spanning themed variant…
Shing nian kuai le! But, please stop calling it “Chinese New Year”
Gong shi fah tsai! Gong hay fah tsoy! Shing nian kuai le! It’s January 31st, 2014 and Chinese people around…