APIAVote Seeking Summer Interns for 2016!
One of my favourite non-profits — APIAVote — is seeking summer interns for 2016! APIAVote is one of the nation’s…
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We Must Find the Courage to Defy the NRA
When I first moved to the United States from Canada, I was shocked by the casual normalcy with which Americans…
The Institutionalization of Islamophobia: How Congress May Let Fear and Hatred Dismantle the Visa Waiver Program
GOP frontrunner Donald Trump has built his political platform on intolerance, Islamophobia, and nativism, but (at least for the moment) we…
Appeals Court Dismisses NAACP & NAPAWF Lawsuit Challenging Arizona’s Racist Anti-Abortion Ban
Earlier this year, I named the National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum (NAPAWF) one of my Giving Tuesday Top 5…
Chinese Exclusion, and the Dangerous Islamophobia of Donald Trump
Yesterday, GOP frontrunner Donald Trump announced his most extremist position to-date. Coincident with the 74th anniversary of the attack on…
Why It Matters That Both Civilian Victims of the Planned Parenthood Shooting were People of Colour
On Friday, 57-year-old Robert Lewis Dear entered a Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood and opened fire with a long gun. For…
Shame on Reps. Tulsi Gabbard and Ami Bera for Voting to Block Syrian Refugees
The headline says it all: shame on Asian American House Representatives Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) and Ami Bera (D-CA) for casting…
Mayor Justifies Turning Away Syrian Refugees By Citing Japanese American Incarceration
(H/T: Snoopy) Roanoke mayor David A. Bowers, a Democrat who is now in his fourth term in office, joined the growing…
Mike Huckabee tweets racist anti-Asian joke during CNN Democratic Debate
I get that tonight’s Democratic debate has been highly entertaining, but this tweet from Mike Huckabee sent just a few…
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Asian Americans, We Must Stand Strong with our Undocumented Immigrants | #MyAsianAmericanStory
Whether it is Donald Trump’s verbal caricature of overseas Chinese businessmen, or Jeb Bush’s proclamation that when it comes to “anchor…
#WomensEqualityDay Forgets Women of Colour
On August 26th, Americans marked the 95th anniversary of the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, after a long and hard-fought battle by…
Trump Mocks Asian Speech Patterns in Campaign Speech
Oh, hell no. Less than an hour after Donald Trump ejected Univision reporter Jorge Ramos from a press conference in Iowa,…