The New York Times reports on a new anti-choice tactic, which is to approach the African American community and point out the disproportionate amount of African American women who seek abortions (40% of abortions in the US.) Anti-choice groups have dubbed it "womb lynchings ( Read more... )

I usually don't wear make up. Maybe I'm too lazy. I'm not bad at applying it, most people can't even tell I'm wearing any when I am, if I am. But since we're visiting Ken's family over the holidays and taking family photos, I realized I would actually need to buy make-up. And not the nice $40 a bottle of Shiseido makeup I used to be able to ( Read more... )

Last weekend, I was featured on Angry Asian Man.com, a prominent Asian American blog, as their Angry Reader of the Week for my work for racebending.com. It was really an honor to be interviewed for this website alongside other Asian American activists. I was able to share a little bit about myself, name drop a couple of organizations I work with ( Read more... )

President Obama is supposed to sign the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Hate Crimes Act today. The bill expands protection and prosecution of bias-motivated crimes to more activities and to more people--"actual or perceived gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability." I am proud of my country today. (Even though the bill was ( Read more... )

Oh hello awkward.

Interracial couple denied marriage license in Louisiana.

This would be hilarious if it this is hilarious because it is 2009.

Justice of the Peace Keith Bardwell said that his reasoning is that the offspring of interracial couplings often have a hard time being accepted by the two cultural groups (no shit, Sherlock.)** Rather ( Read more... )

This last month I've been trying to interview various experts on the casting of white actors to play Asian characters on the film "The Last Airbender" for the protest website I'm involved with, racebending.com. If you're at all interested, you can read them via the following links, and please let me know what you think.

Professor Russell K. ( Read more... )

I was stuck at Costco with Ken today because I got my tires changed (really happy with the tires, btw!) We got pretty desperately bored so I started running around trying out samples. One of the samples was AmyLu sausages. I love sausage--please do not take this out of context--so I bounded right on over ( Read more... )

So I was mulling over the Racism 101 I've been through the past few months of this year, having helped coordinate the Racebending.com protest against The Last Airbender and also from attending the Leadership Academy since some of the work was focus on racial/ethnic disparities.

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In the past I've written about how in my Asian American studies class, I learned that I am a symbol of white hegemonic oppression, and how one of the leading Asian American Studies scholars of our times has said that Asian American women like me have been "socialized into the white supremacist world of media."Our love is a "racist love ( Read more... )

It's been almost a month now since I gave my speech at the 5th Annual Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health Asian and Pacific Islander Hope and Recovery Conference, so I thought I'd write about it.

When I blogged about this conference last month I expressed very little faith in the planning of the conference. I had insisted to the ( Read more... )