From bestselling authors to up and coming artists, here are the creative leaders in the Asian American community.
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...
On campuses like University of California, Berkeley, it is not uncommon to walk by a herd of students moving their limbs in unison to hip-hop music. You might see them dancing in front of lecture hall buildings, in parking garages, and in brightly lit hallways in...
Kapwa. English translation: not found. A Tagalog word, “kapwa” is both a physical space and a metaphysical space. The word encapsulates both a sense of closeness, belonging and recognition. In every episode, co-hosts Jen Amos and Nani Dominguez invoke kapwa along with...
There are 61 million people in America living with disabilities. That’s one in every four people. While the wheelchair symbol is the most common representation of disability, many disabled people do not utilize a mobility device. (Some even have disabilities that are...
With many of us sheltering-in-place or at risk in essential job functions, Asian Pacific American Heritage Month hits differently this year. The continued COVID-19 scapegoating (re)produces racial tensions across the United States, resulting in acts of violence, hate,...
Jenny Zhang and I began our phone call the same way thousands of other individuals around the world began theirs: by discussing how we are coping amid the COVID-19 pandemic. “I’m feeling especially sad for my parents and others their age who’ve lived more than half...
Content Warning: suicide, depression, anxiety] What Sophie Cheung remembered most from primary school in Hong Kong was aspiring to get into the best university possible. From a very young age, the TED Talks producer, filmmaker and photographer of celebrities, like...