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…
Tag: Mental Health
Harvard’s Bad Counsel
By Guest Contributor: erin Khuê Ninh, Associate Professor of Asian American Studies, UCSB Harvard dispensed some royally bad counsel recently.…
API Mental Health: Let’s Stop Talking Taboos and Start Talking Racism
By: Jen Soriano (@lionswrite) Editor’s Note: As of May 22, 2018 the author has modified this essay to include more Native…
Rae Na Lee, ’19, is Second Student Death at Yale in Past Week
In a message circulated late yesterday to members of the Yale University community, Yale University dean of students Jonathan Holloway…
Zayn Malik opened up about his anxiety. Here’s why that matters.
By Guest Contributor: Lakshmi Gandhi (@LakshmiGandhi) It’s been a whirlwind fifteen months for Zayn Malik, the suave tenor who first…
Suspect in Triple Homicide Found Mentally Incompetent to Stand Trial As Family Demands Hate Crime Charges
The suspect in a triple homicide that claimed the lives of three people of colour was found mentally incompetent to…
Lawsuit Alleges School Didn’t Stop Bullying That Led To Girl’s Suicide Death | #ActToChange
Nearly a year after 13-year-old Emilie Olsen was found dead of an apparent suicide, her parents have filed a federal…
Yale’s President Announces Major New Commitments to Diversity Initiatives in Wake of Student Protests
In the wake of the massive student protests that have rocked the Yale campus highlighting the institutional racism of the school and…
How Our “One-Size-Fits-All” Approach to Healthcare Fails Southeast Asian American Patients
One of the watershed moments in my development as an AANHPI race advocate happened at ECAASU in 2003. I was still a…
May 3: The Overlooked Battle Against Depression and Suicide Among SE Asian Americans | #APAHM2015 #ReappropriateRevisited
For this year’s AAPI Heritage Month, I will take each day to pull one of my favourite posts or pieces from the…
May 2: 10 Myths (and Facts) About #AAPI Mental Health | #APAHM2015 #ReappropriateRevisited
For this year’s AAPI Heritage Month, I will take each day to pull one of my favourite posts or pieces from the…
Yale mourns death of Luchang Wang ’17 by apparent suicide
The Yale student community was rocked last night with news that sophomore Luchang Wang, ’17 — mathematics major and member of…