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· Heather Johnson Yu
Lisa Vannatta, perhaps better known by her gamer handle STPeach, is no stranger to attention online; with 455,540 Twitch followers, 385,000 Instagram followers, 108,000 Twitter followers, 34,958 YouTube subscribers, and 18,378 subreddit readers, she manages her personal brand as…
· Ranier Maningding
When William Hung first appeared on American Idol in 2004, the face of White America lit up like a Christmas tree at this in-real-life Asian stereotype. White people thought they saw the Asian Sasquatch. With his school boy haircut, buck teeth, thick accent and high-waisted…
· Heather Johnson Yu
“Annihilation“, the popular first book of Jeff Vandermeer’s Southern Reach Trilogy, is receiving the Hollywood treatment — complete with Whitewashing the main character, a person of Asian descent. Natalie Portman has been cast to play the lead role, the Biologist, instead of a…
· Ryan General
While international brands have long been using Caucasian models to market their fashion goods to China, local labels seemed to have found a “middle ground” in hiring Uyghur models to promote their products. Mandarin-speaking members of the majorly Muslim ethnic minority group…
· Carl Samson
Instagram meme-account “F**kjerry,” which has 12.5 million followers, is being sued by one father for making a deal with his 16-year-old son without his consent. The lawsuit filed by Tom Chau claims that F**kjerry, which was first launched as a Tumblr page back in 2011, and its…
· Ranier Maningding
The first time I gambled was in 1999 at the Nickel City in East Side San Jose. I was 9-years-old and my Vietnamese friend Vincent, his suspiciously older Asian friend Kevin, and my paranoid self played a few games of 13 for dollars and dimes. I was nervous about getting caught,…
· Heather Johnson Yu
Dr. Eugene Gu, a general surgery resident physician at Vanderbilt University Hospital, has been receiving harsh criticism — even death threats — for his now viral photo of him taking a knee to stand in solidarity with NFL players in their fight against oppression of…
· Heather Johnson Yu
An independent game studio has recently come under fire for its inaugural game, Dirty Chinese Restaurant. The title, currently in development by Big-O-Tree Games (wordplay on “bigotry”), features a slew of racist themes, including a “sweatshop mode”, employees with rice-picker…
· Carl Samson
One Japanese beauty ad is drawing flak for its merciless take on what happens to the “unattractive”. Released earlier in September, the ad endorses Lohas Pharmaceutical Company’s Alface line of facial masks, which apparently promises instant beauty.
· Ryan General
Local authorities in Dallas, Texas have arrested 24-year-old fugitive Brian Marsh Semrinec for the murder of a 28-year-old Asian American woman named Shuyi Li. Facing charges of aggravated assault and murder in Georgia, Semrinec was arrested on Monday and is currently being held…
· Heather Johnson Yu
***EVERYTHING IS SPOILERS — YOU’VE BEEN WARNED*** Trekkies around the country came together last night to watch the premiere of Star Trek: Discovery with bated breath. The highly anticipated series has generated controversial commentary, with fans either praising or slamming the…
· Carl Samson
Two men were arrested in connection with using a mentally-disabled teenager to help them carry out a series of robberies on Asian women in California over the last two months. Dominic Shamo, 21, and Juan Arzate, 20, allegedly “directed” a 17-year-old boy to aid in robberies in…
· Carl Samson
An intoxicated woman harassing an Asian-Australian family has become the newest racist viral video sensation. The incident took place while the family was selling strawberries on a street in Bullsbrook, Perth, Western Australia, according to Daily Mail.
· Heather Johnson Yu
YouTuber Victoria Waldrip, aka WoahhVicky, released a racially-charged diss-track and accompanying music video that has sparked outrage on social media. According to Waldrip, the track was in response to YouTuber RiceGum‘s diss video he’d previously posted, critiquing her…
· Rubayet Lasker
Nobody cares about Bangladeshis — our stories, our experiences, or our history. Obviously White people have never cared, but other people of color, Asians, even South Asians toss us aside like stray animals. I have worked to reject that. I have spent my life rejecting that. I…
· Kyle Encina
Michelle Yeoh, who is set to star in “Star Trek: Discovery” on September 24, discussed how “very inspirational” her new role is to Asian women, especially young girls. The 55-year-old Malaysian actress is set to take on the role of captain Philippa Georgiou, the commander of the…
· Bryan Ke
One store owner in Cocoa, Florida, who was dubbed by local residents as the “Client Eastwood” of convenient stores, recently chased off his sixth would-be robber, like straight out of an old-school action movie. The shop owner, Sowann Suy, fended off yet another culprit on…
· Heather Johnson Yu
New reports have discovered that Kelsey Asbille, the Eurasian actress cast as a Native American woman in the upcoming film “Yellowstone”, doesn’t actually have official Cherokee heritage after all. According to Reappropriate, Native American actor, producer, and activist Sonny…
· Heather Johnson Yu
You want to hear a funny joke? Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse are up against each other in court, headed for divorce. The judge looks over all the paperwork, fumbles with his spectacles, and, after what feels like forever, exhales deeply. He takes his glasses off and puts the…
· Heather Johnson Yu
Police in Cobb County, Georgia are searching for a 24-year-old man suspected of murdering his 28-year-old girlfriend. Officers found Shuyi Li dead inside her Smyrna home after she failed to report into work on Monday morning. A subsequent investigation led police to charge Li’s…
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