I’m in the 78%: Asian Americans and Reproductive Choice
Wednesday, January 22, 2014, marked the 41st anniversary of the landmark Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision, which established a woman’s right…
Category: Health and Fitness
Hyphen Magazine: Lying to your mom about Post-partum Depression
Sharline Chiang of Hyphen Magazine is a survivor of post-partum depression. Yesterday, she wrote a powerful article today about the months following…
Struggling in Silence: a discussion at Yale on APIA mental health
It has been exactly a decade since I’ve been an undergraduate student at Cornell, and involved in that exciting thing…
Mental Health Awareness Week: Top 10 Myths about Asian Americans and Mental Health
In 1990, Congress declared the first week of October to be Mental Health Awareness Week; today marks the final day…
“Goga”: the next fad workout to perpetuate sexist notions of weight loss to women
Caught this on CNN: It actually hurt my brain it was so offensive. So, “Goga” is a repackaged, modern, “Curves”-style…
On fat acceptance and obesity research; or, lying about the science is just another form of fat bigotry
Health media and bloggers are a-buzz over a recent study by Flegal and colleagues of the National Center for Health…
6 tips for making a healthy New Year’s resolution… and for making it stick
Four years ago, I turned my health and fitness around, and it all started with a New Year’s Resolution (“no…
Latest Time Magazine Photoshoot Reveals That Paul Ryan Is Actually That 16-Year Old Kid Who Lifts Weights In His Parents’ Basement
This week, Time Magazine, reaffirming its commitment to report nothing that could even remotely be construed as news-worthy in the…
Why be one of the #170in7?
Cross-posted from JookTime (go here for more information about 2 year old Jeremy Kong’s search for a perfect bone marrow donor…
#170in7: Only 24 hours in and already nearly 10% of our donor goal reached!
The #170in7 bone marrow cyberdrive in memory of Janet Liang has only been live for a little over 24 hours,…
170 in 7: An Overwhelming Response from the Asian American Community in Memory of Janet
Last week, I was saddened to hear about Janet Liang’s death. I had been inspired by Janet’s battle against leukemia, and…
Be one of the 170 in 7 today! a bone marrow cyberdrive in memory of Janet Liang
Janet Liang, a vibrant 25 year old UCLA graduate and a leukemia patient who spent years championing leukemia awareness…