I Can't Wait To Be An Old Asian American Woman

"I will do nothing else but sit in my favorite chair and let all my migrant muscles rest."



From the icy wilds and tiny desks of Alaska... I don't know about you, but Christy NaMee Eriksen can't wait to be an old Asian American woman. The Juneau-based poet and activist gives us a gorgeous gift: her wonderful, unique last-minute submission to NPR's 2018 Tiny Desk Contest.

Recorded on frozen Auke Lake and accompanied on guitar by Avery Stewart, she lists off all the awesome things she's legitimately looking forward to being and doing when she is an old Asian American woman. It's a thank you to Asian America and a thank you to ajummas everywhere.

Alaska couple killed in brutal home attack

Damn. This is an awful story out of Alaska about a community rocked by the brutal murder of Cambodian couple by a stranger in their Anchorage apartment: Slain couple were cherished elders in Cambodian community.

Last Saturday, Touch Chea, 71, and his wife Sorn Sreap, 73, were killed by 24-year-old Jerry Andrew Active, who climbed into their home through an open window.

Active, a convicted sex offender, reportedly beat Chea and Sreap to death and sexually assaulted their 2-year-old great-granddaughter. He was arrested after a struggle with family members, who came home to find him naked with the child: