API Mental Health: Let’s Stop Talking Taboos and Start Talking Racism
By: Jen Soriano (@lionswrite) Editor’s Note: As of May 22, 2018 the author has modified this essay to include more Native…
Category: Health and Fitness
Rae Na Lee, ’19, is Second Student Death at Yale in Past Week
In a message circulated late yesterday to members of the Yale University community, Yale University dean of students Jonathan Holloway…
Zayn Malik opened up about his anxiety. Here’s why that matters.
By Guest Contributor: Lakshmi Gandhi (@LakshmiGandhi) It’s been a whirlwind fifteen months for Zayn Malik, the suave tenor who first…
Asian American Adolescents Want To Talk To Us About Sex
A study that describes itself as the first to “specifically examine Asian American adolescents’ beliefs regarding discussions of sexual health between health…
43 Years after Roe v. Wade, Reproductive Rights Still Matter to AAPIs | #Roe43
43 years ago today, the Supreme Court handed down a landmark decision that would serve as an important foundation principle…
Lawsuit Alleges School Didn’t Stop Bullying That Led To Girl’s Suicide Death | #ActToChange
Nearly a year after 13-year-old Emilie Olsen was found dead of an apparent suicide, her parents have filed a federal…
How Our “One-Size-Fits-All” Approach to Healthcare Fails Southeast Asian American Patients
One of the watershed moments in my development as an AANHPI race advocate happened at ECAASU in 2003. I was still a…
The New York Times Doubles Down On Its Erasure of AAPI Student Victims of Suicide
When we were freshmen first entering Cornell, an older student told Snoopy in a dubious effort to introduce us to the…
Jindal Cuts Medicaid Funding for Planned Parenthood as Senate Efforts to Defund Group Fail
In the wake of a smear campaign against Planned Parenthood — one of the nation’s largest healthcare service providers for…
Why is the New York Times Rendering the Suicide Deaths of Asian American Students Invisible?
This post was written with input and inspiration from Snoopy. Yesterday, the New York Times profiled Kathryn DeWitt, a young University…
The High Cost of High Stakes Testing
Over the weekend, 16-year-old Mira Hu went missing in San Marino, California. Hu — a student at San Marino High School…
Asian American Student Suicide Rate at MIT is Quadruple the National Average
Regular readers of this blog will know that mental health, depression and suicide within the Asian American community is a topic…