The Unbearable Silence of the World in the Face of Those Whose Lives Were Taken

By Guest Contributor: Ammara Khursheed July 6th 2016: At work, I check Facebook, my newsfeed is flooded with images of the…

‘Designated Survivor’ Recap: Season 1, Episode 2, ‘The First Day’

By Guest Contributor: Lakshmi Gandhi (@LakshmiGandhi) Shortly after the fifteenth anniversary of the 2001 World Trade Center attacks, The Week posted…

Why and How Asian Americans Must Mobilize for Black Lives

By Guest Contributor: Kaela Mei-Shing Garvin (@KaelaMeiShing) Black lives matter.  Full stop. Any discussion of police violence against American lives must…

The Long Road Ahead: Why Black Lives Matter For a Muslim American Woman

By Guest Contributor: Anisa Khalifa (@anisakhalifa_) After the killings of this past week, it feels on some level as if…

Deportations of Southeast Asian Americans: A Glaring Human Rights Issue in an Unjust Immigration System

By Guest Contributors: Chanida Phaengdara Potter (@LittleLaosBlog, @chanidanoy) and Mia-lia Boua Kiernan (@1lovemovement1) Last week, war veterans, mothers, fathers, family, friends, and…

‘Designated Survivor’ Recap: Season 1, Episode 1, ‘Pilot’

By Guest Contributor: Lakshmi Gandhi (@lakshmigandhi) As with any recaps, please be wary of spoilers. What would you do if you…

Priyanka Chopra Has Some Interesting Views On Diversity. We Break Them Down.

By Guest Contributors: Lakshmi Gandhi (@lakshmigandhi) and Asha Sundararaman (@mixedtck) We’re less than ten days away from the season two premiere…

To Build a Name Brand of Chinese Americans

Editor’s Note: This post is an English-language translation of a Chinese-language essay that was widely circulated through predominantly Chinese-language social…

An Open Letter to the Asian American Men’s Rights Movement

By Guest Contributor: Evelyn Kim (@wordsfromevelyn) Dear Asian American Men’s Rights Activists (MRAs): I’ve come across your Reddit threads, your…