I thought I posted this here but evidently I did not! I wrote this back in January after reading Helen Zia's Asian American Dreams"We Are Gaysian, This Is Our Mantra ( Read more... )

BooksBehold the Many - Lois-Ann Yamanaka ( Read more... )

eL Seed's calligraphy grafitti is amazing. Check out his work!!! sea_dress, I think you'd really like his stuff. Really beautiful street art. I went to his artist talk today and got a print of his work signed. TOO AWESOME. Am also signed up for his grafitti workshop on Sat, can't wait to get some hands on experience!! I'm inspired to try out what Chinese ( Read more... )

The affirmative action case in the US: I haven't read many articles on it yet, but man oh man. If they overturn affirmative action on the basis that "we don't need it anymore" or "it's unfair to white kids", I think I might throw up. There is still such a huge achievement gap between African American and Hispanic students with white or East Asian ( Read more... )

Shadeism from ammabia productions on Vimeo.
This documentary short is an introduction to the issue of shadeism, the discrimination that exists between the lighter-skinned and darker-skinned members of the same community. This documentary short looks specifically at how it affects young womyn within the African, Caribbean, and South Asian diasporas ( Read more... )

Sexism, Racism, and Swimming: Article about the "controversy" over Ye Shiwen's world record gold medal swim, which basically amounts to the Western world being racist against the Chinese.

Jessica Colotl: Eye Of The Storm. Jessica Colotl is an undocumented immigrant who was brought to America as a child - and who now faces deportation. Reporter ( Read more... )

The video from the intheairproject is finally done and uploaded!! Please check it out here! I'm playing guitar for a little part of it. It would mean a LOT to me if you could forward the link to other art-minded folk out there!! Watch it first and you'll see why!

... Straight White Male would be the lowest difficulty setting there is. Nicely written article about privilege in a role playing game metaphor. Also, points to me for playing the hardcore difficulty setting! Haha

100% Melbourne: I went to see this really awesome performance on Fri with reehamification called 100 Percent Melbourne. It's part theatrics, part reality performance, part game, and has everything to do with the population intersection. 100 random people were taken from Melbourne as representatives of the entire Melbourne population by statistics (so 4 people ( Read more... )

A great little article on the women who didn't fit into the same old depressive stereotypes of minorities in the US while looking real slick (poofy hair and everything) here. Excerpt:

Here’s what I wish I knew back when I was in high school and so proud of myself for being the exceptionally compassionate, caring person I believed myself to be: ( Read more... )