All Immigrants Deserve to Not Just Arrive, but Also to Thrive
By Guest Contributor: Quyen Dinh, MPP (Executive Director of Southeast Asia Resource Action Center) I grew up poor but never knew…
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My journey as an undocumented immigrant
By Guest Contributor: Yin Yin Chan (@yinychan) My daughter, Mia, has another year in preschool, and her father and I…
Behind LA Chinatown’s Hip Food Scene: Baos, Coffee, and Gentrification
By Guest Contributor: Frances Huynh Read the first of this series: “The Gentrification of Los Angeles Chinatown: How Do We…
Fighting for equal pay for Southeast Asian American women
By Guest Contributors: Sung Yeon Choimorrow and Vimala Phongsavanh, National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum Disaggregated data indicates that Southeast…
Still Processing: Imagining Myself as Asian/American
By Guest Contributor: Yaoyao Liu Editor’s Note: This post is the second in a series by Yaoyao Liu, reflecting on…
Reflecting on ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ and Being “Asian Enough” as an Asian American Adoptee
By Guest Contributor: Katie Mantele (@chenqiaoling) On August 15, 2018, the release of Crazy Rich Asians was celebrated by members…
Multiplying the Meaning of Asian American on ‘Still Processing’
By Guest Contributor: Yaoyao Liu Editor’s Note: This post is the first in a series by Yaoyao Liu, reflecting on…
Crazy Broke Asians: Asian America’s Forgotten Fight
By Guest Contributor: Do Nguyen Mai Media is already saturated with unnecessary and unrealistic displays of wealth. Crazy Rich Asians…
Looking Back at a Road Not Taken and Forward Towards a Future Inspired by Crazy Rich Asians
By Guest Contributor: Celeste Pewter (@celeste_pewter) The first time I told my parents I wanted to be an actor, I…
The Power of Untidy Movements: 30 Years after the Fight for Japanese American Redress
By Guest Contributor: Sean Miura (@seanmiura) My mom was about my age when she testified in support of Japanese American…
#NeverAgainIsNow: Why the 30th anniversary of Japanese American Redress matters today
By Guest Contributors: Tsuya Hohri Yee, Co-Chair New York Day of Remembrance Committee (Facebook: @nydayofremembrance); and Joseph Shoji Lachman, Co-founder…
Borderless: A Review of ‘We Have Not Stopped Trembling Yet: Letters to my Filipino-Athabascan Family’
By Guest Contributor: Jason Fong (@jasonfongwrites) Ask the world’s largest search engine for the definition of “Asian American,” and Google…