K Town, Episode 1 Recap: Welcome to K-Town
It’s been two years (almost to the day) since the announcement that Tyrese Gibson’s production company announced its intention to…
Category: Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders
So, She Wants To Defend Asian Fetishism
Earlier this week, a Huffington Post blogger Vivienne Chen wrote an article — So, He Likes You Because You’re Asian —…
Why Asian Americans Should Celebrate Today’s Supreme Court Decision on Obamacare
This morning, history was made. In a 5-4 decision (read the .pdf of the SCOTUS opinion), the Supreme Court decided…
Secret Identities: “Push” – LEAKED ART!
Attention. I wrote an eight-page story that will appear in Shattered, which serves as volume 2 of Secret Identities (the Asian American…
I Am a Child of the Vincent Chin Tragedy
Thirty years ago, today, on June 23, 1982, Vincent Chin died. Four days earlier, Vincent Chin was brutally beaten by…
Janet Liang is in Remission
Janet Liang, whose battle against leukemia I profiled earlier this month, just posted this update: Dear co-survivors: Happy news abound.…
Calling Asian American Women: We Want To Know About Your Social Experiences
Pauline Chan, a graduate student at Boston College, is seeking Asian females 18 years or older to participate in a…
Jeff Yang Contemplates the Casual Racism of Yellowface Fonts
Ever wonder where those ubiquitous pseudo-Asian “chopstick” fonts that are routinely used to mimic Asian languages come from? Jeff Yang…
Rodney King Dead at 47: Thoughts on his Life, and Remembering Sa-I-Gu
The news just broke that Rodney King, whose videotaped beating at the hands of LAPD in 1991 and the subsequent acquittal…
Obama Administration Changes Policy to Stop Deportation of Young Illegal Immigrants
One of my chief complaints about the Obama administration (of which there are only a few, mind you) is their…
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June 23, 2012 marks 30 years since the heinous, racially-motivated murder of Vincent Chin. Chin’s death, and the subsequent failure…
Roger Mayweather’s Racist Tweets
8Asians has documented some of the racist, anti-Asian Tweets sent by Roger Mayweather, uncle and trainer to Floyd Mayweather. They…