Asian Americans
12 AAPI Organizations to Support Amid Increasing Anti-Asian Violence
Listen, donate, and take action.
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Immigration as Inspiration: Who Gets to Be an All-American Girl?
It’s very hard for people who are not immigrants to really understand what it’s like to move to a place where you don’t speak the language and how hard it is to find a home.
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Mixtape to My Heart: Music as a Function of Vietnamese Memory
Music needs minds and media to carry it, but it doesn’t need bags. Music can’t sink boats.
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Andrew Yang, It’s Not on Asian Americans to Prove Their “Americanness”
While Asian Americans are being targeted, former presidential candidate Andrew Yang decided to perpetuate the model minority myth.
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8 Books to Read in Honor of Filipino American Heritage Month
From fantasy to nonfiction, a graphic novel and queer romance, here are eight recently published and upcoming books by Filipino authors.
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Transmitting Culture: A New Slate of Films Serve as Love Letters to Korean American Mothers
Always Be My Maybe, Searching, and To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before depict Asian American mothers as worthy of the same care, sympathy, and compassion that they bestow on their children, family, and friends.
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BitchTapes: Asian and Asian American Rock Stars
This week’s BitchTapes features feminist music by artists of Asian or Asian American heritage.
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A New Day: Can Hollywood and Publishing Maintain the Momentum of #AsianAugust?
Helen Hoang, Lillian Li, and R.O. Kwon offer insight into why Hollywood and the publishing industry are finally beginning to wake up.
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BitchReads: 15 Books Feminists Should Read In June
We’re six months into 2018, and the great books just keep coming.
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The Ascension of Chloé Zhao
Chloé Zhao is one of the few Asian women directors getting her just due.
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