Watchmen breaks the promise of Lady Trieu’s naming
By Guest Contributor: Mai Nguyen Do The reveal of Watchmen’s Lady Trieu began as a promise of innovative retelling and…
#GivingTuesday 2019: Reappropriate’s Top 5, and a listing of AAPI non-profits
Every year, I publish a working list of Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) non-profit groups for your consideration for…
Republican Senator Compares Trump Impeachment Hearing to Japanese American Incarceration
Republican Senator John Kennedy’s statements earlier this week would be laughable if they weren’t so ahistorical and trivializing of racial…
Bong Joon Ho’s “Parasite” Manipulates Space to Spook Viewers and Make a Statement about Social Class
By Guest Contributor: Claudia Vaughan Bong Joon Ho’s films can be described as a genre in their own right: they…
It’s Not Just For Fun: My Reaction to Kurt Suzuki’s MAGA Hat Photo Op
By Guest Contributor: Joseph Shoji Lachman Kurt Suzuki, who is a yonsei (or, 4th generation Japanese American), wore a “Make…
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…
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…
Andrew Yang’s Problematic Reinforcement of the Model Minority Myth
Tonight, Silicon Valley entrepreneur Andrew Yang joined the nine other top Democratic presidential candidates on the debate stage at Texas…
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…
Trump’s Title X ‘Gag Rule’ Hurts Asian American Women and Other WOC Who Need Access to Reproductive Healthcare
The Trump administration is holding true to the president’s campaign trail promise to wage a war on women, and the…
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…