‘Soft Power’: A Powerfully Acted but Underwhelming Spectacle
By Guest Contributor: Edward Hong (@CinnabonMonster) Ever since I wanted to be an actor in high school, I became immediately…
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Why We Must End Caste Oppression
By: Thenmozhi Soundararajan Last year I was ejected four times from the California Board of Education building. My crime was…
Cristina Garcia, Asians, and Affirmative Action: What It Means to Me
By Guest Contributor: Nicole Gon Ochi, Advancing Justice – Los Angeles (AAAJ-LA) Last month, reports surfaced that California Assemblywoman Cristina Garcia,…
How to Organize Asian Americans – Notes from Two Generations
By: Rinku Sen First, realize that Asian America is a thing. Combine a bunch of smaller groups (who hated or…
How Grace Lee Boggs Changed My Life (and Maybe Yours Too)
By: Scott Kurashige Twenty years ago, I wrote to Grace Lee Boggs completely out of the blue. She had no…
Power, Privilege, and “Reconciliasian”
By Guest Contributor: Heath Wong Editor’s Note: Earlier this month, artist Joshua Luna published a web comic titled “Reconciliasian” addressing…
1965 to Today: Moving Towards a Majority-Minority America
By: Alton Wang (@altonwang) We often talk about the course of history as if it is distantly in our past.…
The Sunken Place and the Model Minority Myth
By: R. K. Guha I sometimes wish I could go back in time and be my own guardian angel. I…
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…
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…
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…