Something I've heard a lot in the Asian American community when it comes to discussing methodology and strategy is the black/white rhetoric of using Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X as the be-all-end-all examples. I've lost count of how many times people have compared anyone even remotely mo... Read more...
This past weekend, I was lucky enough to go to a student conference in New York City. Overall, it was a fantastic and very well put together conference with very educational workshops, mind-blowing performances by talented artists, and opportunities for Asian American leaders and students to meet an... Read more...
Remember a month or two ago when all those articles came out about how an Asian woman refused to date Asian men, another Asian woman gave pretty problematic about why her Asian boyfriend was amazing, and then a follow up piece by the original author about dealing with internal racism? (Fellow colu... Read more...
This year I was fortunate enough to be accepted as a speaker for a youth leadership/identity panel at the Advancing Justice Conference in Chicago. It was a fantastic weekend full of passionate people, icons, leaders, and role models from all corners of the country. The panel’s title was “Seeing ... Read more...
TV watchers, there’s a new detective in town. Following in the wildly popular BBC show Sherlock comes CBS’ Elementary, a modern take on Sherlock Holmes. However, to the despair of traditionalists worldwide, Elementary’s Watson is neither a man...nor Caucasian. Instead, Lucy Liu dons the Watson... Read more...
