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· Sincere Parks
Editor’s Note: Sincere Parks originally posted this piece on her FaceBook; it has been republished with permission. The views expressed in this piece are solely her own. *tap tap* POC, specifically Asian men for the purpose of this article, y’all ok?
· Khier Casino
Jade Sixty is a New York steakhouse that opened on Tuesday on the Upper East Side, but for a restaurant “inspired by Asia” someone sure forgot to read up on the do’s and don’ts of using chopsticks. In a New York Times “Off The Menu” column, originally titled “New York Steakhouse…
· Ryan General
Employees from both Amazon and Microsoft in Seattle were recently exposed to be using their company email accounts to engage in Asian sex trafficking. Newsweek recently obtained multiple emails sent by the so-called “prostitution hobbyists” between 2014 and 2016 sourcing…
· Ryan General
Cenk Uygur, creator of the popular progressive online network “The Young Turks”, was recently outed for writing multiple racist and sexist blogposts in the early 2000s. Uygur was found to have made a number of posts using objectifying language to describe women during his early…
· Khier Casino
There is still a lack of lead roles in movies for Asian actresses, and if you were to ask anyone to name at least 10 who were slated to appear in a feature film in 2017, they would most likely be played by White women. The Los Angeles Times continued to expose their readers to…
· Ryan General
As cuisine is influenced by the cooking practices and traditions of a specific culture, Asian foods and Western foods have naturally evolved distinctly different in many ways. Asian cuisine is known for the range and sheer variety of flavors. In the continent’s varied regions,…
· Kevin Nguyen
Editor’s Note: Kevin Nguyen is a Vietnamese-American blogger. The views expressed in this piece are solely his own. The Asian patriarchy is suddenly aware and alarms have been sounded in 2017, asian people and white people are dating! and yes, they’re starting families with each…
· Nadya Okamoto
Until three months ago, I was ashamed of being Asian. It wasn’t until I ran for local office this year, at 19-years-old and as a Harvard sophomore, when I had to suddenly defend being Asian (even for my own pride) against visceral racism usually from strangers over social media…
· Editorial Staff
The holidays are coming and if you’re Asian, you know what time it is! Time for an endless amount of shoes outside the door!
· Heather Johnson Yu
An Arizona father and daughter disembarked from their flight home after visiting grandparents in Florida, only to be met by police officers who wrongfully accused the man of human trafficking. According to ABC, Brian Smith and his 16-year-old adoptive Chinese daughter,…
· Daniel Hyun Kim
Editor’s Note: The following piece was originally posted on Medium and reposted with permission. The views expressed in this piece are solely of the author. This whole time I keep writing about Asian Masculinity and I didn’t even define what it is…. so what is it? First here is…
· Carl Samson
Asian American students at Duke University have shared racist comments they heard within the campus in recent weeks. In an article published on Dec. 18, Duke’s independent student news organization The Chronicle revealed shocking stories of racism unimaginable in a 2017 academic…
· Ryan General
It is much more difficult for Asian American women to find help for eating disorders and body dissatisfaction in the United States, a recent poll data revealed. The new findings, collated by a team of researchers from California State University, Fullerton (CSUF), revealed that…
· Carl Samson
If you happen to be a product of more than one ancestry, specifically White European and Asian, it’s likely that you’ve come across the word “hapa” at least once. The word has become a loaded term to date. Deconstructing it would take us more than a thousand years into the past,…
· Editorial Staff
Early Tuesday evening, NBC Chicago reported Kim Jonghyun of SHINee’s death on live television. His tragic death has caused the K-pop community to grieve, as well as start a dialogue about mental health in the industry. However, when NBC aired the broadcast, the report showed…
· Heather Johnson Yu
In another bizarre case of faulty camera technology, a boy in Shanghai, China was able to unlock his mother’s phone through its facial recognition software. The father of the boy, last name Liu, had purchased the iPhone X for his wife, and she had set up the facial recognition…
· Ryan General
Akira Yoshida, the Japanese writer of “Thor: Son of Asgard,” “X-Men/Fantastic Four,” “X-Men: Age of Apocalypse” and “Wolverine: Soultaker,” was one of the Marvel’s most prolific writers in the early 2000s. Unfortunately, Yoshida did not actually exist. His identity was merely an…
· Carl Samson
Indian actor Shahid Kapoor was named the “Sexiest Asian Man” of the year by British newspaper Eastern Eye. Kapoor, 36, dethroned One Direction’s Zayn Malik, who held the title for the last two years.
· Eliza Romero
Nobody ever tells stories about attractive, young, modern, fashionable, and progressive-thinking Asians. It’s always tragedy, martial arts revenge stories and “immigrant porn”. So my initial impression after reading “Crazy Rich Asians” was that it was a story that had nothing to…
· Heather Johnson Yu
2017 sucked. For everyone. But that horrible year is almost over and 2018 is just around the corner. Thank God.
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