A quote from the oral history project I volunteer with at API Equality Northern California, good things to keep in mind about life and work. Alex Lee is a trans Asian American activist and filmmaker. Emphasis mine.

M: In terms of circling back to activism or your political awakening as an activist, how or I suppose, what kind of advice would you ( Read more... )

So this happened yesterday:

@shellypolitik @alifeofgreen great piece! :) would love to read more of your pieces! Thanks!
- Suey (@suey_park) January 2, 2014

Was TOTALLY gushing over it. Suey Park was the activist who started the #NotYourAsianSidekick on Twitter so I was over the moon to have such a good response to my article, esp since I was all ( Read more... )

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In this powerful spoken word, poet Clint Smith, who is also a teacher in Washington D.C., tells the stories of some of his students. It puts names and details to the struggles of young people trying to thrive in an urban environment that is all too often indifferent to their survival.

I got into an argument with my brother about the Zimmerman case via email. I'm actually kinda impressed he read up on it at all, Sing's not really political. But man so energy draining to keep up arguing. I got super riled up over Facebook too because someone reposted a Wellesley alum's article on black boys and inter-POC-community solidarity and ( Read more... )

Fuck all of this shit.

George Zimmerman acquitted for the murder of Trayvon Martin

FUCK FUCK FUCK. How can Zimmerman get away with NOTHING when this black woman gets 20 years for firing warning shots?

Florida Judge Rejected Stand Your Ground Defense For Black Woman Who Fired Warning Shot During Domestic ViolenceFucking proves that the south is ( Read more... )

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

I drove manual for the first time today! It's pretty different to automatic. Dealing with the stickshift is hard. Gonna need more practice before I start driving on the road like that.

Just watched Junot Diaz's beginning part of keynote speech at Facing Race 2012. AMAZING. That man is awesome. Watch it here. The part about decolonial love was ( Read more... )

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Hipster cultural appropriation and the damage it does ( Read more... )

An Open Letter to Abigail Fisher: Opinion letter about affirmative action case at University of Texas. "Your white skin is not an entitlement pass. Mediocrity wasn’t adequate at the University of Texas at Austin and it is not acceptable in life." Agreed.

Top five myths about Asian Americans and affirmative action from Angry Asian Man. Affirmative ( Read more... )

1 - XKCD: Click and Drag. From the stories, I expected the world to be sad. And it was. And I expected it to be wonderful. It was. I just didn't expect it to be so BIG.

2 - A Softer World: Freedom of Uncertainty. Having all the answers just means you've been asking boring questions.

3 - A Softer World: Maybe I'll learn a programming language ( Read more... )