February 2012
3 posts
Fuck Yeah Chinese Myths!: Er Lang makes a cameo in... →
fuckyeahchinesemyths:
or… Er Lang vs Monkey King
Anyways, if you’re familiar with Chinese mythology and grew up watching television serials, you know this bad-ass ‘cause he fights Sun Wu Kong after Sun Wu Kong wreaked havoc in heaven. Basically, the Monkey King ruining the peach party for errbody was like, the…
Mom in central China gives birth to 15 pound baby →
GIANT BABY > STUDYING
January 2012
8 posts
justice for danny chen | angry asian man →
AMY GOODMAN: Lay out the details that the military laid out to you. ELIZABETH OUYANG: Basically, they said that he was subjected to excessive push-ups, sit-ups, flutter kicks, running sprints carrying sandbags. He was made to crawl with all his equipment across gravel. He was placed in a simulated sitting position while soldiers used their knees to kick his legs. Rocks were thrown at him to...
Has Asian American Studies Failed? →
Timothy Yu, Professor of English and Asian American studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, follows up on his provocative, much-discussed post on the challenges facing the field of Asian American studies.
The Best in Asia and Asian America 2011 →
Jeff Yang’s last “Tao Jones” column of 2011 picks the best, the worst and the most memorable events, individuals and phenomena of the year that was.
Lure of Chinese Tuition Pushes Out Asian-Americans →
The University of California system is enrolling record numbers of out-of-state and international students who pay almost twice that of in-state residents — but are they squeezing out high-achieving Asian American applicants?
‘Yo, Is This Racist?’ Andrew Ti’s Tumblr Has Your... →
“”What I would like to have, the resource that seems most needed based on the questions in general and the hatemail from indignant white people,” says Ti, “is just an examination of white privilege, and of all privilege in America. That’s what I try to bring to the table, without being too serious about it: an examination of privilege. Because at the end of the day, I’m making jokes and...
December 2011
11 posts
missing: 19-year-old aisha khan, last seen... →
Opinion: If I Were a Rich White Dude →
On Monday, Forbes columnist Gene Marks strayed from his usual beat — business technology — to write a column, “If I Were a Poor Black Kid,” that purports to give advice to poor black youth on how to succeed in life despite the social and economic constraints that they face. Stop what you’re doing and take a look.
The column has gone viral, with many decrying it as patronizing...
Pearl Harbor surprise: Photo of female... →
Lowe said the wartime photo was certainly not taken on Dec. 7, 1941, the day the Imperial Japanese Navy shocked the United States into joining World War II. On that Sunday morning she was headed to church when the bombing started, and she went ahead anyway because she wasn’t sure what else to do. But she and her friends from the Dole pineapple factory did soon go to work as civilian...
California teen takes $100K national science prize →
Angela Zhang of Cupertino won a $100,000 scholarship for her cancer fighting research in the 2011 Siemens Competition in Math, Science and Technology, one of the top competitions for young scientific minds. Zhang’s prize-winning research studied the use of nanotechnology to eradicate cancer stem cells.
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Ai-jen Poo | Organizing Labor—With Love →
“I believe that love is the most powerful force for change in the world,” Poo says. “I often compare great campaigns to great love affairs because they’re an incredible container for transformation. You can change policy, but you also change relationships and people in the process.”
How does this view square with the fact that campaigns often involve a lot of conflict and acrimony?
“I think that...
Some Asians' college strategy: Don't check `Asian'... →
wthellokitty:
Studies show that Asian-Americans meet these colleges’ admissions standards far out of proportion to their 6 percent representation in the U.S. population, and that they often need test scores hundreds of points higher than applicants from other ethnic groups to have an equal chance of admission. Critics say these numbers, along with the fact that some top colleges with race-blind...
November 2011
10 posts
Long Time No See
“Long time no see” is an English expression used as a greeting by people who have not seen each other for a while. It is vested in an unconventional grammatical garb, and is an imitation of broken or pidgin English.[1] It may derive ultimately from an English pidgin such as that spoken by Native Americans or Chinese.”
Source: (Wikipedia)
Learnt this fun fact from the awesome...
The Forgotten Revolution | Hyphen magazine - Asian... →
“In that context, choosing to be Asian American was about deciding to be Asian and not white. It was about rejecting racial stratification and stereotypes of who Asian people were in the United States, and taking a stand on the side of oppressed peoples.”
Watch“In his new documentary ONE BIG HAPA FAMILY, Jeff Chiba Stearns, known for his animated shorts and director of YELOW STICKY NOTES (Festival 2008), looks at the Whys and Hows of interracial marriage. As a developed version of Stearns’ earlier autobiographical animated short WHAT ARE YOU ANYWAY? (Festival 2006), ONE BIG HAPA FAMILY proceeds from the filmmaker’s own family...
WatchYo-Yo Ma, Edgar Meyer, Chris Thile And Stuart Duncan: Tiny Desk Concert
This is absolutely incredible.
Source (NPR)
Over 2,000 march in Hong Kong' gay pride parade →
“More than 2,000 people marched in Hong Kong’s gay pride parade Saturday, as campaigners called for the enactment of laws to ban discrimination against homosexuals.
The crowd, mainly from the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community (LGBT), as well as their supporters and sex workers, paraded through the city centre in a carnival-like atmosphere during the hour-long...
This one's for all you straight white boys →
foryearsonlyfish:
who are jealous of the colored revolution,
because for you, the rainbow has never been enuf,
this is for all you hurt straight white boys, so clenched straining
struggling for potency, oh all you straight white boys
i hear how hard it is for you.
i’ve heard all about your anger, the
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October 2011
11 posts
We Are The 99%: Chinese American Youth Edition →
The Chinese Progressive Association organizes low income and working class Chinese immigrants in San Francisco. Some of their youth members have come together to tell their stories in solidarity with the Occupy movement, and I keep seeing their photos shared on Facebook. Their stories are heartbreaking, enraging, depressing, and, at the same time, inspiring. These kids should be wallowing in...
microaggressions:
A girl in my English class says, “You’re Chinese, right? Have you ever eaten dog?” When I inform her that I’m actually Korean, her response is a dismissive “Whatever.”
I was 20 and in my sophomore year of university in Los Angeles. Made me feel angry that she considered my culture interchangeable with another, and embarrassed because gaegogi (dog meat) makes regular...
News: BREAKING: Gary Oldman And Helena Bonham... →
Another case of whitewashing… SADZ.
People of Color / #OccupyWallStreet: CALL OUT TO... →
pococcupywallstreet:
To those who want to support the Occupation of Wall Street, who want to struggle for a more just and equitable society, but who feel excluded from the campaign, this is a message for you.
To those who do not feel as though their voices are being heard, who have felt unable or uncomfortable…
Inspired by the original People of Color Working Group of #OccupyWallStreet,...
Brown Power at Occupy Wall Street! 9/29/11 →
This is the experience of a group of South Asians at the Occupy Wallstreet Rally.
I started shouting “mic check!”, got the crowd’s attention, and said that we did not agree with the phrase “formerly divided by” and instead felt it could perhaps be “despite”, and said that the original phrasing erased histories of oppression. Unfortunately, even though about 4 or 5 presumably white people had...
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"Person of color" = someone discriminated against... →
rosaflora:
(Inspired by the commentary on this post)
For the purposes of anti-racism struggles, that’s all you need to go by.
Yes, the term, “colored” is not normally associated with Asian people these days, but it was definitely used to label people of Asian descent in this country in the past. We have been and still are the targets of White racism:
Believing the fallacy that...
September 2011
20 posts
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MOONROOT: An Awesome New Zine For Asian Womyn →
lenachen:
MOONROOT: An Exploration of Asian Womyn’s Bodies
READABLE PDF | PRINTABLE PDF
MOONROOT is an ongoing collective project about race, gender, and bodies that debuted its first issue at the Baltimore Book Festival.
They encourage you to print, distribute, and share the zine with your friends. Also, if you are a self-identified womyn, trans, or genderqueer person of Asian decent...
Gong Yoo in Portugal for Harper's Bazaar →
Yellow face in the new sherlock holmes movie? →
Uhhhh, what the… From the looks of these photos of Robert Downey Jr. taken on the set of Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, it appears that at some point in the movie, Sherlock is weirdly disguised as a Chinese guy. I know. He’s supposed to be the world’s greatest detective, and he’s on the case! And it’s a gag. …But seriously? They’re going to go...