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“There is really no such thing as the ‘voiceless’, there is only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard”
— Arundhati Roy (via raygender)
This is not how I made breakfast this morning, but everyone needs goals, right?
Two new exhibits of photographs at the Museum of Chinese in the Americas feature intimate portraits of the residents of New York’s Chinatown and a look at its changing landscape. Full exhibition preview here.
![Never has Cup Noodles looked so comforting as in this picture.
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Never has Cup Noodles looked so comforting as in this picture.
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Alex Dang - “What Kind of Asian Are You?” at the 2013 National Poetry Slam
Last week, Mumbai hosted its largest ever pride march. The Queer Azaadi March was an act of defiance in the face of the Indian Supreme Court upholding Section 377, which outlaws sexual acts that are “non-procreative,” a holdover from India’s years as a colony of the British empire.
Maggie Q has just signed onto a miniseries project about 19th century Chinese pirate captain Ching Shih, who was the commander of one of the most powerful naval forces in the South China Sea in the early 1800s.
Words can’t express how excited I am that we’re hosting all these wonderful people and brilliant organizers for our second Google Hangout. Join us on Thursday for what I’m sure will be a lively, thought-provoking, and inspiring conversation.
The owners of the Dhaka, Bangladesh garment factory that burned in 2012 were found guilty of gross negligence, but this weekend, they turned themselves in on charges of culpable homicide in the deaths of the 112 workers who died in the blaze.
Part of the reason owners don’t do due diligence to make workplaces safe is that, for them, the costs aren’t high enough to make it “worth their time.” Is this the beginning of an effort to turn that around?
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