NOC: Hard NOC Life Video Podcast Ep. 001, featuring yours truly
Check out the pilot episode of Hard NOC Life, a weekly video podcast by The Nerds of Colour. This episode features…
Category: Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders
Will there be a Pacquiao comeback?
Last year, Manny Pacquiao — the one-time fighter heralded as boxing’s pound-for-pound greatest — suffered one of the most bruising…
3 videos of BD Wong singing that are just kind of awesome
Here are 3 videos of Tony Award-winning actor BD Wong (@BD_Wong) that you need to see. 1. As Father Ray…
NOC: The Wolverine – Memories of “Miss Saigon”
Originally posted on The Nerds of Color My boyfriend and I rarely go to the movies these days: tickets are…
Kal Penn, #StopandFrisk, and Tacos: Is rational discussion possible in the age of Twitter?
Earlier this week, Kal Penn blew up the Twitterverse. It all started when Penn — best known to America at-large…
NOC: The First Romance of a Casual Fangirl of Colour
Originally posted to a new blog, The Nerds of Color. To some degree, I think it’s inevitable that all of…
Abercrombie & Fitch is an exclusionary company?!? Colour me shocked.
There’s this viral thing going around the Internet: Jes Baker of the Militant Baker, angered by comments made by Abercrombie &…
Third Victim of Boston Marathon Bombing Was Chinese National and Boston University Graduate Student
The third victim of Monday’s devastating Boston Marathon bombing has finally been identified (sort of): she was a Chinese…
Biking While Asian (or, the Most Asinine Story of anti-Asian Racism You’ll Read This Week)
As if we needed any evidence that all people, whether Far Right extremists or self-described liberal progressives, can be guilty…
Beyond the Bad and the Ugly: a summit on Asian American stereotypes, March 23 @ JANM in LA
If you’re going to be in the Los Angeles, California area on March 23, take the day to stop by…
Glenn of the “Walking Dead” is the best response to anti-Asian stereotyping on television
Spoiler alert: I’m going to be talking about the events of Walking Dead up until Season 3, Episode 10. If…
BREAKING NEWS: Sports Illustrated’s Swimsuit Issue is racially and sexually dehumanizing
Note: this post contains images which may not be desirable to view at work… at least without having to explaining…