From bestselling authors to up and coming artists, here are the creative leaders in the Asian American community.
Food, design, fashion, and cute animals: when Tammy Na and Amber Luan first met at Boston University in 2008, they bonded over these interests and decided they would eventually do “something” together. Over ten years later, that “something” is now Lazy Sundaes, a...
For many second-generation Americans, visiting the “motherland” can be a jarring experience. We’re initially delighted to be around people who look like us and speak like us — only to find out the way we dress, pronounce words and behave are all “wrong.” That, even in...
JS Lee’s novel “Everyone Was Falling” takes place in 2016, when racism, trauma and violence increased on the verge of Trump’s election. Reading the novel— which was released in September 2020 — after another election has passed feels foreboding yet affirming. ...
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Mandarin was my first language, and for the first 18 years of my life, I heard and spoke it enough at home and church to consider myself fairly proficient. But after high school, my opportunities to use the language dwindled quickly. By the time I became a parent, I...
Sennah Yee and Elaine Chen’s new children’s book “My Day With Gong Gong” is a heartfelt story that gets to the core of cultural and language gaps within multi-generational immigrant homes. The book’s theme of unconditional familial love proves that it’s possible to...
In 2016, Seattle-based poet, author and translator E.J. Koh was ready to quit writing. For years, writing consumed her life and became inseparable from her identity and her perception of success. She knew that to separate her value from what she produced, she had to...
In “The Indebted,” the final essay of “Minor Feelings,” Cathy Park Hong remarks, “I was never satisfied with those immigrant talking points about ‘not belonging’ and ‘the sense of in-betweenness.’ It seemed rigid and rudimentary, like I just need the right GPS...
A Tween Immigrant Chef Finds Courage in this Graphic Novel for Readers 8+ We’ve all been there: some version of a classroom potluck where you have to bring a dish from your cultural background. One hazy memory in particular floats to the surface, where I present a...