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11.13.2016

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Over 200 Incidents of Hateful Harassment and Intimidation Since Election Day: According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, hundreds of reports of hateful intimidation and harassment erupted across social media networks in the wake of the presidential election Tuesday night.

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A Running List Of Reported Racist Incidents After Donald Trump's Victory: Welcome to the new normal.

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Trump supporters are threatening to kill me over this tweet: "As I type this, people are tweeting that I'll be deported or killed once Donald Trump takes office. It's surreal, but it's useful to explain how I got here, because stories like this will be happening a lot more for the next four years."

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The perils of being a female, Asian fact-checker in a tense election: While just doing her job as a fact checker during the election season, Michelle Ye Hee Lee has encountered rampant sexism and racism.

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How to intervene in a racist attack: As hate crimes rise in the wake of Trump's election, here are some tips on how to intervene when you see someone being attacked.

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How Trump Made Hate Intersectional: How Trump's hateful rhetoric reveals the ways in which hatred is intersectional, affecting multiple identities and bodies.

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Dear White Friends: Stop Saying Everything Is Going To Be Ok: "White people: I believe you will be okay. I'm happy that you're going to be okay. But I'm tired of hearing you tell me that everything is going to be okay, because the implications of this election are different for you than for everyone else."

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Exit polls were wrong about how many Asian Americans supported Trump: While exit polls reported 65% of Asian American voters choosing Hillary Clinton, the Asian American National Election Eve Poll found that Asian American voters supported Clinton over Donald Trump by a much wider margin.

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The Ascent of the Buffoon and the Asian-American Divide: "We are viewed as a community that plays it safe, and the only way we are threatening is if we play a badass in a zombie show. We are Asian Americans, and we are viewed as a silent engine that simply moves with the flow of the machine. I am an Asian American, and I can safely state that all of the above is a fountain of horseshit."

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Claiming 6 Personal Rights as a Vietnamese, Gender Non-Conforming Femme: Alex-Quan Pham writes a loving reminder to other people of color, especially trans and gender non-conforming people of color, that they are worth too.

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Family, Fate, and Two Astrologies: For Lillian Min, the Eastern Zodiac is one area of mysticism her family can all agree on.

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'It's Asian Men!': Asian-American Men Are Sexy in 'Magic Mike' Parody: The short film It's Asian Men is a self-described Magic Mike parody featuring hot Asian American men. Isn't that all you really need to know?

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Crazy Rich Asians director Jon M. Chu talks challenges of finding all-Asian cast: Director Jon M. Chu talks to Entertainment Weekly about Asian identity, plans for casting Crazy Rich Asians, and the pressures of directing a film that could change Asian visibility in Hollywood.