When you “don’t see race…” - CM
Monday Long Reads: Growing Up Japanese American in Crenshaw & Leimert Park, from Scott Kurashige, is jam-packed with oral history and a complex narrative of a changing city. - CM
If you went anywhere near the internet this weekend, you probably saw this picture. Cleveland Frowns tells the full story of what happened when he introduced this Indians fan to Richard Roche, Chiricahua Apache tribe member. - CM
Yes, it’s been 20 years of Lela Lee’s Angry Little Asian Girl. Check out her 20th Anniversary gallery.
Hmongstory 40
A Celebration of Hmong History, Heritage & Identity
2015 marks 40 years of Hmong migration to the United States. Hmongstory 40 is a project to commemorate, remember, and showcase the Hmong experience in the U.S. - CM
Do you lust after matsutake mushrooms? Here’s a film about the people who work so hard to bring them to your table. “The Last Season” is a documentary looking at seasonal workers, most of them Cambodian, Lao, Hmong, Mien and Thai, with a focus on one Cambodian immigrant and his relationship with a fellow mushroom hunter, a Vietnam vet. Featured in this year’s San Francisco Intl Film Festival. - Alice
Families might experience misunderstandings and assumptions behind interracial adoption and kids with disabilities by others. What’s unusual is the case of Matthew and Grace Huang, found guilty in the death of their daughter and sentenced to three years in prison in Qatar. Instead of skepticism, ♥♥♥ to all multiracial families!
Read what we know about the Huangs, from a mom who had a similar experience losing a child - Alice
(Image: Tara Todras-Whitehill for The New York Times)
Ursula Liang’s labor of love, a documentary about the intense Chinatown street game of 9-Man, is premiering at Independent Film Festival Boston, and on the west coast at The Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival in the next couple weeks. - CM
Check out the film here.
Check out the film here.
OAKLAND: ticket giveaway!
Share this post, with a comment about why you need a laugh this weekend, and you’ll be entered in our drawing for 2 tickets to one of Saturday’s Dis/Orient/Ed comedy performances at the Oakland Asian Cultural Center!
I’ll pick a winner tomorrow afternoon!
Kosuke Okahara has been visiting the towns and countryside around the Fukushima Daiichi plant since his first visit, a few weeks after the initial disaster. His photos are beautiful, haunting, and reminders that the work may never be over. - CM
More photos.