Finding Asian American Identity in The Difficult Conversations
By Guest Contributors: Katerina Jeng and Krystie Yen, Co-Founders of Slant’d For so long, racial identity and discussions about race…
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How Chanel Miller’s Story Inspires Me To Tell Mine
By Guest Contributor: Frankie Huang In the summer of 2016, I was one of millions around the world to read…
One Year Later, Women of Color Still Pushing Back Against Kavanaugh
By Guest Contributor: Sung Yeon Choimorrow (Executive Director, NAPAWF) One year after the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme…
Crazy Rich Asians and How Hollywood Constructs Race Under Global Capitalism
By Guest Contributor: Alison Roh Park This essay originally appeared on Medium. Within six months of Crazy Rich Asians’ much…
Building Power at the Intersection of Race and Electoral Politics
By Guest Contributor: Sudip Bhattacharya After Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s upset primary win against the establishment Democrat in New York’s 14th Congressional…
“The Farewell” and the Duality of Language: Finding Depth in What Can and Cannot Be Said
By Guest Contributor: Claudia Vaughan Editor’s Note: Please note that this post may contain minor spoilers for the film, “The…
Trump’s Asian American Judges Are No Friends to AAPI Community
By Guest Contributors: Sung Yeon Choimorrow (NAPAWF), Quyen Dinh (SEARAC), and Alvina Yeh (APALA) Last month, the Senate voted to…
Orange is the New Black and Recidivism: The Need for Accurate Media Representations of the Many Causes of Incarceration
By Guest Contributor:Rachel Ko About 50,000 people a year exit incarceration only to enter immediately into homeless shelters; legal restrictions…
Defending Diversity on Campus
By Guest Contributors: Itzel Vasquez-Rodriguez and Sally Chen The value of a “Harvard education” — which draws students around the…
The Triumph Beyond Sandra Oh’s Trophy
By Guest Contributor: Jacqueline Wong Sandra Oh recently made history three times at the 76th Golden Globes Awards as the first Asian…
I’m an Asian American Student at Columbia University — and Nimesh Patel’s Mic Needed to be Cut
By Guest Contributor: Isabelle Lee Editor’s Note: On November 30, 2018, Saturday Night Live writer Nimesh Patel was performing at…
More Than a Minority, Less Than an Asian
By Guest Contributor: Akshita Gupta Asia is the world’s largest continent. It occupies 30% of the world’s area and encompasses…