Activating Asian America.
I am curious if you have ever found a moment, undressed of your “Tiger Mom, celebrity author” costume and all of the salesmanship it entails, to sit in your natural skin as an Asian-American, and as a mother, to properly measure how the thoughts you spread might affect our community, and in particular our youth.
I feel pretty enthusiastic about Jie Song Zhang’s Amy Chua callout.
Sikh servicemembers have renewed their efforts to get exceptions made for religious observances recently.
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![Rest in peace, Paul J.Q. Lee, New York Chinatown business owner, booster, youth mentor, activist, and actor. He died Friday after a double heart attack.
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Tanaka was highly sought by a number of clubs because of his quite frankly absurd record with the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles. I’m pretty sure the only people who are truly excited about Tanaka signing with the Yankees are Yankees fans, but I won’t pretend like I’m not interested in seeing how he does.
On the 41st anniversary of Roe v. Wade, we’re joining National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum to support health care access for our communities!
NAPAWF’s Tumblr is featuring images. You can join the campaign too. Here are instructions, and templates for your own sign.
New York Assemblyman Ron Kim said that nearby senior centers are “overcrowded and underfunded” and the closest adequate senior center is 20 blocks away.
“Some of these seniors with walkers don’t want to take a bus, they live down the block and, at that age, they deserve to have a place they feel comfortable,” he said.
KoreAm Journal raises the bigger point: why aren’t there safe, comfortable places for our elders to congregate?
Serious question: Has mainstream feminism ever lauded Shonda Rhimes as a feminist icon the way they have Lena Dunham?
Because for real, Shonda has not one, not two, but THREE successful shows under her belt, is a working mother of three children, and often writes very strong female roles.
Am I missing something?
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How do stories like this happen? One reason is shabby journalism, something for which the Daily Mail is renowned. As TIA points out, the originator, a writer named James Nye, is based in New York (as is this writer, for the record). Nye surveys a wide range of click-bait topics that fall between morbid and Kardashian. The discovery of that post-apocalyptic photo may have had something to do with the photo search for an article Nye had written earlier that day about severe turbulencein a flight bound for Beijing. The leap to making up news based on a photo isn’t hard, particularly when you crib a quote from an unrelated Associated Press story to round it out.
But more to the point: Western readers eat this stuff up. Based on Quartz’s experiences, Western audiences generally love Chinese “airpocalypse” stories. It’s not only on Quartz that they tend to attract readers; a friend and editor of a China-focused news site told me last summer that he’s equally baffled by the enduring popularity of air pollution stories. And by interweaving the themes of pollution and the government’s Orwellian-tinged attempts to control daily life, the Daily Mail offers a double-whammy of Western reader stereotypes about China.
I chose these particular words in part because of their resonance to the experiences of many immigrants now who are held in ICE detention: when deportation proceedings are initiated, nobody is given the opportunity to explain, and many are treated as if they are guilty of terrible crimes.
We’re still searching for justice for immigrants in this country. Here’s to a brighter future.