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Where Can I Get My Giant Repellent Umbrella For Stupid?
(Hat-tip: Angry Asian Man) Just when I thought that parody commercials couldn’t get more awesome, this parody commercial hit whole new levels of awesomeness. Earlier this year, a group calling itself Nation For Marriage put together this wonder...
Secret Identities: Parry Shen Unmasked
The Backstory: This interview is the first in a series of interviews with the editors of Secret Identities, an anthology of comic short stories about Asian American superheroes from Asian American writers and artists. Secret Identities hit books...
Our Work Isn’t Done
Dear Asian American Democrats of Texas Members, Supporters, and Friends, In the last few weeks many of you have received emails from us (AADT) and the Texas Democratic Party about Rep. Betty Brown’s unfortunate comments about Asian American vot...
The Secret’s Out: Secret Identities Is Here And It’s Awesome!
The first few pages of Secret Identities chronicle an exchange between Jeff Yang (writer of Asian Pop! at the San Francisco Chronicle) and Keith Chow (freelance writer) that originally inspired the Asian American superhero anthology released today. Y...
More on Betty Brown
From the Texas Democrat listserve: As you may have heard - and as you will see in the news clips below - Republican State Rep. Betty Brown had quite the week. With her comments that Asian-American Texans wouldn’t have problems with a propose...
End the R-Word Day
Today is End the R-word Day, a day to spread awareness about the offensiveness of the derogatory word, “retard” used to diminish people with intellectual or learning disabilities. I personally don’t refer to the word “retard&#...
Out of Touch with the Offline
Lisa, over at A Woman’s Ecdysis, wrote a post last week about disconnecting from the online feminist blogosphere. I wanted to try and disengage from the online world of feminism and refocus that energy into the human interactive relationships I...
Call + Response
Saw this on CNN today: Embedded video from CNN Video It’s a report on a new documentary called Call + Response, created by an organization (of the same name) describing itself as a modern-day abolitionist movement. Produced and directed by a gu...
As I Am: Asians in America
Helen Zia has helmed a brand new project for Asian Americans. that I’m really excited about. As I Am: Asians in America is an hour-long radio pilot that features insightful commentary from a host of Asian American academics and entertainers. Ch...
Asian Americans for Obama: Pitch Email
Asian Americans for Obama have worked tirelessly over the last several weeks to try and spread Senator Barack Obama’s appeal to the Asian American voting constituency. In this final pitch email, we will wrap up several posts written by Asian Americ...
Equity for Filipino Veterans
Senator Daniel Akaka co-authored a proposal earlier this year to call for retirement benefits for thousands of Filipino veterans of WWII. The proposal (part of the larger Veterans Benefits Enhancement Act of 2007, S. 1315) passed the Veterans Affai...
NAASCON Seeking Sponsorship
The National Asian American Student Conference (NAASCON) is looking for sponsors for its conference. Check out this email: National Asian American Student Conference (www.NAASCon.org) is announcing its search for financial sponsors of the 2008 Nation...
Chinese “Goons and Thugs”
(Hat-tip: Angry Asian Man) On April 9th, Jack Cafferty told Wolf Bitzer on CNN’s Situation Room that the Chinese were the same bunch of “goons and thugs” they had been for the last fifty years. It’s the kind of dumbass racis...
2nd New York City Asian American Student Conference
Check out the 2nd New York City Asian American Student Conference this weekend, April 12, 2008, featuring Jenn Fang, Reappropriate’s blogger extraordinaire, in a panel discussion on Asian Americans in the blogosphere. From the website (click ...
Can You Afford Insurance?
Many non-Asian American people of color indulge the common fantasy that Asian Americans as a group do not suffer from American racism. For these pitiful anonymous, Asian Americans as a group have so ingratiated themselves into White supremacist Ame...
Petition Letter for Dr. Mandy Lin Mailed.
Dear friends, This is to let you know that the petition letter for Dr. Mandy Lin’s case has been mailed out to Montgomery County President Judge and PA state Attorney General on Monday, March 31, 2008. Thanks to all your support, we have collected ...
Asian Educators Alliance 2008 Fourth Annual Conference
Founded in 2004, the Asian Educators Alliance (AsEA) is an affinity organization that provides support and outreach for self-identified Asian and Asian Pacific Islander (API) educators. As a national alliance, AsEA is committed to: • raising awaren...
“Chinese Laundry” on Racialicious
Latoya of Racialicious has posted on the “Chinese Laundry” ads. I love everything she has to say from start to finish, but in particular, about how people dismiss the issues of women and minorities in order to negate their own participati...
Petition for Judicial Accountability
I just heard about this story while doing the podcast recording for Fallout Central this week. Mandy Lin was a researcher for a firm called Rohm & Haas when Lin alleges she was asked to organize a focus group addressing concerns of Asian America...
Chinese Laundry: NAPAWF Statement and Petition
Following the “Chinese Laundry” ad (which first broke on the blogosphere through this site, and where I published John Elkhay’s informal commitment to me to pull the ads), the National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum (NA...
“Chinese Laundry” Withdraws Ad
About two weeks ago, W.J., a Brown University student circulated scans of advertisements for the restaurant, “Chinese Laundry” that was originally published in the Providence Monthly magazine. The Asian American blogosphere was almost ...
Fallout Central, ep. 3/11/2008
There’s a brand-spankin’ new podcast episode over at Fallout Central. I’m on for the second half with my Political Ticker segment, then I stuck around for the discussion on the Chinese Laundry ad with Brown University student, W.J.,...
“Chinese Laundry” Ad: Interview with W.J.
Earlier this week, the distribution of a nauseating advertisement promoting a new Asian fusion restaurant (”Chinese Laundry”) in Providence, Rhode Island was initiated by Brown University student, W.J. For more information on how their ad...
Campus Press Staff Suspended
Following Max Karsons “If It’s War the Asians Want…” article, Colorado University-Boulder’s entire editorial staff — and its editorial page — has been suspended and all of the staff temporarily reassigned, pe...
Chinese Laundry Update
Yesterday, I wrote about Chinese Laundry, a fusion restaurant in the Providence, Rhode Island area that has been using racy, Orientalist, pseudo-pornographic ads to promote its opening. A student at Brown University, W.J., who drew our attention to t...
War on Asians Update
Following Colorado University-Boulder’s Campus Press publication of a racially-charged opinion piece describing a lynching fantasy of Asian/Asian American students, a rally is being held at 3pm on campus today to protest the lackadaisical res...
My Letter to Campus Press
Here is the text to my letter to Campus Press. Write yours (this post provides a template you can use). Dear Campus Press, I am disgusted by your publication of Max Karson’s column earlier this week (Re: If It’s War the Asians Want…...
War on Asians Leads to Diversity Training
Earlier this week, Colorado University — Boulder found itself at the center of a firestorm from the Asian American community after the campus newspaper, Campus Press published an opinion piece by an editor, Max Karson, entitled “If It&#...
War on Asians
(Hat-tip: Angry Asian Man) Wow. Max Karson, a columnist at Colorado University, wrote a “satirical” piece in the campus newspaper declaring a war on Asian students. Pronouncing that Asians “hate us” (because, of course, Asian...
Petition: AC360 and the Asian American Vote
Samson Fu and the 80/20 Initiative are sponsoring an online petition against the following segment (reported on by Gary Tuchman of CNN) that was aired on Anderson Cooper 360 earlier this week. It examines the Asian American Vote in Seattle, Washingto...
