Former Japanese American Internee Answers Questions in “Ask Me Anything” Feature on Reddit
A Japanese American woman, now a grandmother, was interned at Tule Lake during WWII. Recently, on Reddit, she was featured…
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Wife of Chinese Politician Bo Xilai Charged with Murdering British Businessman
News outlets are reporting that Gu Kailai, wife of popular and ousted Chinese politician Bo Xilai, has been charged with…
K-Town, Episode 3 Recap (Part One): Soju is the Relationship Killer (Spontaneous Dance-Off Edition)
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FS2gq6agLvA Spoiler alert! Which hopefully you would have figured out by the word “recap” in the title. This post will…
K Town, Episode 2 Recap: Why You Don’t Piss Off Drunk Korean Girls
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xCR9kfRvg0 I hadn’t even had time to hit “Publish” on my K Town episode 1 recap when episode 2 was released.…
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…
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…