We Can't Believe This Needs to Be Said, But No, Quarantine Is Not the Same Thing as Incarceration
Across the nation, protestors have called to end lockdowns meant to ease the impact of the virus on hospitals, likening quarantine to incarceration and slavery. Unfortunately, it bears repeating once again that quarantine is not like either of those things. At all.
I Shouldn't Have To Explain Why ‘Chink Virus' Is So Hurtful, But I Will Anyway
"I never thought I'd hear the slur ever again, but unfortunately, I was wrong."
The Fragility of the Global Nurse Supply Chain
The pandemic has exposed how richer countries, including the United States, rely on health-care workers from poorer ones, such as the Philippines.
Despite increasing racism, being Asian American during this time has been a blessing in disguise
"To finally recognize our own invisibility is to finally be on the path toward visibility. Invisibility is not a natural state for anyone." One writers shares about his journey to fully embrace his Asian American identity.
Vietnamese Americans launch nationwide giving campaign 45 years after Fall of Saigon
"We told ourselves as a family that we'll never ever forget that, and we'll always try to give back to the community and to the country that embraced the refugees when we had nowhere to go."
Hate rising? In age of coronavirus, Asian Americans in Orange County are targets
The rising tide of anti-Asian racism has grown loud enough, and common enough in Orange County, that three different local government bodies -- the county board of supervisors and the city councils in Irvine and Garden Grove -- felt the need to pass three independent resolutions denouncing hate crimes against Asian Americans.
How Quickly an Unfounded Fear Can Become Reasonable Caution
"My grandfather spent his whole adult life separated from his parents. The fear I inherited of being cut off from my own family feels validated by the pandemic."
Who Gets an Obituary?
The food media paid scant attention to the Indian-born chef and restaurant owner Garima Kothari when she was alive. That lack of coverage has extended to her tragic death.
Rep. Grace Meng on finding support in Congress while fighting Asian American bias
"I think for one of the first times in my congressional career I feel like my colleagues see our Asian American issues as something they're concerned about, too, which is a good feeling." New York congresswoman Grace Meng has found herself pushing for her fellow congress members to take Asian American issues seriously.
A rapper mourns his father and the injustice of a supply chain
"Why do I have to grieve with the notion of a supply chain?" Hamanshu Suri mourns his father, Gireesh Kumar Suri, who passed away in a nursing home after exhibiting COVID-19 symptoms. Suri says he thought his father had been tested for the virus only to discover that, due to a shortage of nasal swabs, it never happened.
Alice Wu Was Having Trouble Writing The Half of It. So She Wrote A $1,000 Check To The NRA
For many years, the writer of Saving Face struggled to finish the script to her next film. Then, she found one terrifyingly effective motivational tool to help her along.
How Never Have I Ever Found Its Teen Heroine
Hollywood newcomer Maitreyi Ramakrishnan plays the hilarious and endearing lead in the new Netflix series, Never Have I Ever, co-created by Mindy Kaling.
6 ways 'Never Have I Ever' busts Asian stereotypes
Never Have I Ever, the number one trending show on Netflix, is rightfully being celebrated as a watershed moment for the representation of South Asians in Hollywood. But the 10-part series' real magic is how much it twists stereotypes within even that experience.
Michelle Krusiec On Giving Anna May Wong The Spotlight She Deserved
Michelle Krusiec plays real-life screen legend Anna May Wong in Ryan Murphy's Netflix miniseries Hollywood, an imagining of the inclusive film and television industry that could have been during the glitz and glamour of post-World War II Hollywood. Honestly, Anna May Wong's story deserves a movie or series of her own.
How 'Hollywood' Gave Darren Criss the Chance to Engage With His Asian-American Identity on Screen
"There came a point in my career where I realized I was not going to be as valuable as somebody who was passing."