5 Lessons From Hot Asian Men For 2018

Guest Post by Ada Tseng, Professor of Hotness


(Clockwise from top left) Saagar Shaikh, Mike Bow, D'Lo, Sean Miura, Yoshi Sudarso, Jake Choi, Peter Sudarso, Chris Pang, Simu Liu, and Ilram Choi. Photo by Sthanlee B. Mirador/Sipa USA.

First, we exchanged Haikus With Hotties. Then we put Haikus On Hotties. It's our third year making hot Asian man calendars to celebrate our favorite talented creative Asian men in the media, and this year, fans wrote Haikus For Hotties, and each spread is designed into a magazine cover, as a nod to the fact that Asian American men (and women, for that matter) are now sometimes featured inside the magazine, but still rarely on the cover.

Haikus With Hotties x Dream Panel: Image Of The Asian American Man

Wednesday, November 29 at the Japanese American Cultural & Community Center



Los Angeles! Hot Asian men! Poetry! You are invited to a special panel discussion, Haikus With Hotties x Dream Panel: Image Of The Asian American Man, which will also serve as the official launch of the 2018 Haikus for Hotties Calendar, a series that "celebrates Asian Male Hotness in all forms." The panel will include participants from the popular calendar series, including Yoshi Sudarso, Peter Sudarso, Ilram Choi, Saagar Shaikh, Jake Choi, Mike Bow, D'Lo, Simu Liu and Chris Pang, moderated by Sean Miura.

That's a lot of Asian male hotness in one room. It's happening Wednesday, November 29 at the Japanese American Cultural & Community Center in Little Tokyo. Here are some more details:

August is Hot Asian Man Awareness Month

Celebrate by backing the Haikus For Hotties 2018 Calendar.



Attention, please! This is a Very Important Announcement about Hot Asian Men. Did you know that August is Hot Asian Man Awareness Month? It has been declared. Not by coincidence, the annual Haikus For Hotties Calendar is back! From the makers of Haikus With Hotties and Haikus On Hotties, the 2018 calendar features twelve months of Hot Asian Men, carefully curated by our friend Ada Tseng, esteemed Professor of Hotness.

This year, they're inviting fans to participate in the fun. Every three days, during the calendar's Kickstarter campaign, they'll unveil a new photo of a 2018 calendar hottie and invite you to submit a hotness-inspired haiku. They'll publish their favorite one and give each haiku winner a free calendar.

The theme for the 2018 edition will be "Cover Men," with each photo transformed to look like the cover of a magazine -- a nod to the fact that we still rarely see Asian men rocking the covers of Hollywood magazines. It's a fun way to highlight a multitude and variety of Asian men doing cool things in the media.

Check out this behind-the-scenes video of the photo shoot with the official Haikus With Hotties ambassadors Yoshi and Peter Sudarso, and the very first female calendar hottie, Anna Akana. (The image is a parody of this Vanity Fair cover with Tom Ford, Keira Knightley and Scarlett Johansson.)