Asian Americans Run for Something: Zahra Suratwala | Candidate for DuPage County Board, IL
This year, a record number of Asian Americans are running for public office at the local, state, and national level.…
Why NIFLA v. Becerra is a Watershed Moment for Women of Color
By Guest Contributor: Sung Yeon Choimorrow, Executive Director, NAPAWF, Author at HMHB This week, as the Supreme Court begins hearing NIFLA…
Preparing Little Brother for a Mass Shooting
By: Frances Kai-Hwa Wang (@fkwang) The night before my youngest child – whom we call Little Brother – leaves on…
Writing Towards Liberation: Asian American Revolutionaries and the Written Word
By Jenn Fang (@reappropriate), Reappropriate In the grainy black-and-white image – a blurred photocopy of a photocopy of the original…
Stories From the Margins: An Interview with Documentary Filmmaker Nanfu Wang
By Guest Contributor: Dawn Lee Tu (@dawnleetu) I Am Another You is filmmaker Nanfu Wang’s follow up to the gripping…
New York Times Editor Thinks American-Born Mirai Nagasu Is An Immigrant
Perpetual Foreigner stereotype alert: shortly after US figure skater Mirai Nagasu became the first American woman to land a triple…
Aziz Ansari, and the Crossroads of Our Era
By Guest Contributor: Bessie Chu I have some probably unpopular opinions about the Aziz Ansari misconduct story. And I’m calling…
How the Aziz Ansari Story Reveals the Toxicity of Internalized Gender Roles
By Guest Contributor: Tiffany Tso I’ve been chewing on Babe’s Aziz Ansari story for the last couple of days. The…
#NotYourModelMinority: Asian Americans Are Not Your Proof that Donald Trump Isn’t Racist
Asian Americans are not your model minorities. We are not your wedges. We are not your license for guilt-free anti-blackness.…
(Re)Constructing Asian Masculinity: Trump and the “Racial Castration” of Kim Jong Un
The specter of war between North and South Korea has dominated headlines, particularly as President Donald Trump increasingly matches the…
CA Secretary of State Building to be Renamed for March Fong Eu
California’s first female Secretary of State and the first Asian American woman publicly elected to a state constitutional office, March…
L. Song Richardson Named UCI Law School Dean, Becomes Only Woman of Color Dean of a Top-30 Law School
Earlier today, the UC Irvine School of Law — ranked within the top 30 of the nation’s law schools by…