Want to Stop Asian Hate? Start by Passing the Build Back Better Act
By Guest Contributor: Sung Yeon Choimorrow, Executive Director, National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum (NAPAWF) Last year, on the campaign…
Asian American Organizations Issue Joint Statement in Support of Haitian and Black Immigrants
By Guest Contributor: GAPIMNY – Empowering Queer & Trans Asian Pacific Islanders As Asian American organizations and communities, we express…
Adoptees Call For Boycott of “Blue Bayou”
Last Friday, filmmaker Justin Chon’s latest – Blue Bayou – opened in theatres nationwide, and I interviewed Chon as well…
Finding Peace in the End: In Conversation with Blue Bayou’s Linh-Dan Pham
Asian American filmmaker Justin Chon’s latest film – Blue Bayou – opens today in theatres nationwide. In the film, Linh-Dan…
Bringing a Transnational Korean American Adoptee Story to Film: In Conversation with ‘Blue Bayou’ Filmmaker Justin Chon
Asian American filmmaker Justin Chon’s latest film – Blue Bayou – opens today in theatres nationwide. Blue Bayou tells the…
Delaware State Representative Who Used Anti-Asian, Misogynistic Slurs in Email Won’t Seek Re-election
Content warning: Racist and sexist slurs In late June, Delaware State Representative Gerald Brady (D) sparked backlash after an email…
I am a (Southeast) Asian American Woman
By Guest Contributor: Mandy Diec Trigger warning: this blog post discusses sexual harassment and assault. It has been over three…
Are you a good desi or a bad desi?
By Guest Contributors: Avani Chhaya & Soham Sengupta Truth is, you can inadvertently be both a good and bad desi.…
Kim’s Convenience Actors Reveal Lack of Korean Writers Led to Behind-The-Scenes Cultural Insensitivity and Racism
Just days after Season 5 of Kim’s Convenience dropped for American audiences, actors Simu Liu (Jung) and Jean Yoon (Umma)…
Remembering Konerak Sinthasomphone
By Guest Contributor: Anna M. Moncada Storti Content Note: Explicit mention of events of child m*lest*tion, s*xual violence, anti-Asian murder…
Amidst strict censorship laws, Facebook is not Vietnam’s Savior
By Guest Contributor: Ngan Chiem At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic last year, the Vietnamese government began sabotaging the…
New Podcast Company Appears to Appropriate Hyphen Magazine Brand Identity
A founding editor of the long-running Hyphen Magazine – the Asian American publication that launched its first issue in 2003…