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Category: Guest Contributors

Young Texas Asian Americans don’t feel represented in government
Asian Americans & Pacific IslandersElectionsGuest ContributorsPolitics

Young Texas Asian Americans don’t feel represented in government

Guest ContributorNovember 30, 2023November 30, 2023

AUSTIN, TEXAS. — Austin, Texas is known as a liberal haven in a famously red state. The city should be…

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Filipinx American Identity: A Personal (Ongoing) Journey of Positionality 
Asian Americans & Pacific IslandersGuest Contributors

Filipinx American Identity: A Personal (Ongoing) Journey of Positionality 

Guest ContributorSeptember 27, 2023September 27, 2023

About a year ago, I stood before the faculty and students of my psychology graduate program and declared, “Before I…

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My great-grandfather had a horse and a pistol.
Asian Americans & Pacific IslandersGuest Contributors

My great-grandfather had a horse and a pistol.

Guest ContributorJuly 7, 2023July 7, 2023

He had a horse and a pistol. He also had a house that was so big that when British soldiers…

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Asian Americans must reckon with how the fight to remove affirmative action is rooted in anti-Blackness
Affirmative ActionAsian Americans & Pacific IslandersGuest Contributors

Asian Americans must reckon with how the fight to remove affirmative action is rooted in anti-Blackness

Guest ContributorJuly 5, 2023July 5, 2023

Asian Americans must reckon with the fact that this latest blow of injustice was made in our name. Again.

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Where I Am Really From: Or, Sometimes I Think About the Etymology of ‘Gook’
Asian Americans & Pacific IslandersGuest ContributorsPersonal Essays

Where I Am Really From: Or, Sometimes I Think About the Etymology of ‘Gook’

Guest ContributorJune 29, 2023June 30, 2023

Sometimes I think about the fact that Robert Aaron Long carried out the 2021 Atlanta spa shooting on the fifty-third anniversary of the infamous massacre at Mỹ Lai.

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I’m a Southeast Asian American educator. My community will not be weaponized against affirmative action.
Affirmative ActionAsian Americans & Pacific IslandersGuest Contributors

I’m a Southeast Asian American educator. My community will not be weaponized against affirmative action.

Guest ContributorJune 15, 2023June 15, 2023

I am from district Nha Be in Vietnam, just a bit outside of Saigon.  I immigrated to Minnesota with my…

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Helen Gym’s Campaign for Philadelphia Mayor and the Future of U.S. Politics
Asian Americans & Pacific IslandersGuest ContributorsPolitics

Helen Gym’s Campaign for Philadelphia Mayor and the Future of U.S. Politics

JennMay 10, 2023May 11, 2023

By Scott Kurashige Philadelphia’s mayoral race is heating up, and Asian American community activists are deeply invested in the fight…

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The fallacy of fuckability politics
Asian Americans & Pacific IslandersGuest Contributors

The fallacy of fuckability politics

Guest ContributorOctober 11, 2022June 9, 2023

By: Tif Shen After a recent breakup, I’ve found my way back to dating apps. I’ve learned that a new…

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Asian American Cowboys and Native Erasure
Asian Americans & Pacific IslandersGuest Contributors

Asian American Cowboys and Native Erasure

Guest ContributorSeptember 29, 2022June 9, 2023

By Guest Contributor: Dr. Beenash Jafri In 2021, a prominent billboard featuring the photos of three Asian cowboys was erected…

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When I worked security for a brothel in upstate New York
Asian Americans & Pacific IslandersGuest Contributors

When I worked security for a brothel in upstate New York

Guest ContributorSeptember 12, 2022June 9, 2023

By Guest Contributor: Kathryn Clemensts A moment of indecision can have life-altering consequences. I already knew that and I knew…

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Find your Place in the Revolution: Grace Lee Boggs’ Final Message to Asian Americans
Asian Americans & Pacific IslandersGuest Contributors

Find your Place in the Revolution: Grace Lee Boggs’ Final Message to Asian Americans

Guest ContributorJune 27, 2022June 9, 2023

By Guest Contributor: Scott Kurashige Eight years ago amid the heat of a Detroit summer, legendary Chinese American scholar-activist Grace…

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Am I Asian American Enough? 
Asian Americans & Pacific IslandersGuest Contributors

Am I Asian American Enough? 

Guest ContributorMay 31, 2022June 9, 2023

By Guest Contributor: Mia Ives-Rublee I spent my childhood hearing from white adults about the immoralities of Asians. I was…

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