BY GRACE J. YOO, EUNICE H. HIM, AND SOOJIN JEONG. Asian American activists have been key to remembering the “comfort women” in the U.S. and globally. The act of remembering is often done through creating memorials, exhibits, films, conferences, and educational efforts. This paper examines Asian American activists’ remembrance work in building a memorial in the city of San Francisco.
Read moreBY KAYLA MENDOZA CHUI, CAMILLE UNGCO, DOUA KHA, KRIYA VELASCO, THERESA LEE, RAE JING HAN, AND SARASWATI NOEL. Under the structures of white supremacy, the pandemic has unveiled the dehumanization of Asian folks in the US. For many of us who are members of Asian communities, these lived realities have existed since the arrival of Chinese laborers in the 1850s.[i] We went from “dog eaters” to “bat eaters”;[ii] we exist dually as model minorities and perpetual foreigners;[iii] we’re seen as apolitical, non-combative, and submissive, yet also as the threatening yellow peril;[iv] we’re fetishized yet desexualized;[v] weaponized to perpetuate anti-Blackness;[vi] and the list goes on.
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BY ANDREW PENG, JAVAN SANTOS, AND MARY YANG Photography by Tommy Kha – New York Times This piece was published
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BY MICHELLE K. SUGIHARA AND JESS JU Photograph of Anna May Wong This piece was published in the 32nd print
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BY AMRITH KAUR AAKRE AND SIM J. SINGH ATTARIWALA This piece was published in the 32nd print volume of the
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BY CINDY H. LIU, PhD AND JUSTIN A. CHEN, MD, MPH This piece was published in the 32nd print volume
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BY MAHNOOR HUSSAIN, SOPHIA QURESHI, LAKSHMI SRIDARAN, AND SRUTI SURYANARAYANAN This piece was published in the 31st print volume of
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