#Asian and Pacific Islanders

[rachy-chel]

Maysia 2: new year

[usnatarchives]

Honoring Dr. Chien-Shiung Wu: The First Lady of Physics 🥼⚙🔭

As we celebrate Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, let’s take a moment to appreciate Dr. Chien-Shiung Wu, a physicist who made considerable contributions to nuclear physics and worked on the Manhattan Project during World War II.

Early Life and Education

Dr. Chien-Shiung Wu was born on May 31, 1912, in a small town near Shanghai, China. Her father was big on education, especially for girls, which was uncommon at the time. Wu went to National Central University in Nanjing to study physics and later moved to the United States for further studies. She got her Ph.D. in physics from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1940.

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28883982

Big Contributions to Physics

During World War II, Wu joined the Manhattan Project. She helped develop the atomic bomb by figuring out how to enrich uranium and study radioactive isotopes. Her most famous work was in 1956, when she proved that the law of parity conservation doesn’t hold in weak nuclear interactions. This was an important advancement for physics and earned her colleagues, Tsung-Dao Lee and Chen-Ning Yang, the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1957. Sadly, Wu didn’t get the Nobel recognition even though her experiment was crucial.

Legacy and Recognition

Dr. Wu’s work earned her the nickname "The First Lady of Physics." She received many awards, including the Comstock Prize in Physics and the National Medal of Science in 1990. Besides her scientific work, Wu was a big advocate for women in science and education, encouraging young women to pursue STEM careers. During her career Dr. Wu also taught at Princeton and Columbia Universities. She received the National Medal of Science from President Ford on October 18, 1976, “for her ingenious experiments that led to new and surprising understanding of the decay of the radioactive nucleus.“

Explore More About Dr. Chien-Shiung Wu

To learn more about Dr. Chien-Shiung Wu’s life and work, check out these resources from the National Archives:

The Manhattan Project

Women in STEM

Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month

As we celebrate Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, let’s remember Dr. Wu’s contributions and how she paved the way for future scientists. Her story is a reminder of the importance of perseverance and the pursuit of knowledge.

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Happy Asian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month!

[mindboogling]

Kamaʻāina E Komo Mai Welcome Home, Kamaʻāina

🌺Happy AAPI Month!🌺 I've had this piece in mind since I visited home last year. Among the chaos of the airport's baggage claim and shuffling between impatience, a screen greets each guest in yellow text, saying those very words: "To our returning Kamaʻāina, welcome home." My heart ached when I had to leave, leading me to draw this with a lot of plant life and flowers from my nostalgia. Now I'm back on my island, reuniting with my family, and embracing my culture - I'm Kānaka Maoli and couldn't be more grateful to be home.

[uwmspeccoll]

Staff Pick of the Week

My staff pick this week is the trade edition of The Tale of the Shining Princess by Japanese-born writer Hisako Matsubara (b.1935) and Japanese-Canadian artist-printmaker Naoko Matsubara (b.1937), published by Kodansha International LTD. Tokyo, Japan in 1966. 

As a artist-printmaker and bookmaker who makes woodcuts, I am greatly inspired by Naoko’s prints. Naoko Matsubara’s work carries on traditions of Japanese printmaking while having its own contemporary flavor. Her woodcuts are ecstatic, they are vibrating with movement. Her use of bold shapes and the white line of the the carving tool makes the most of what woodcut has to offer. In the book form, the active images carry the reader’s eyes through the book space. Her use of negative space activates the page. Additionally, her woodcuts have translated beautifully to commercial printing. 

The Matsubara sisters are daughters of a senior Shinto priest, and were raised in Kyoto. Both studied, lived, and worked in the United States. Hisako received her Master of Arts degree from Pennsylvania State College, moving to Germany where she continued her studies and became a prominent writer, publishing her work in Japanese, English, and German. In the 1980s she moved back to the United States, this time to California where she worked at Stanford University. 

Naoko received her Master of Fine Arts from Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, now Carnegie Mellon University. After her studies she traveled across Europe and Asia. She returned to the United States and became the personal assistant to the artist and wood engraver Fritz Eichenberg, an artist who has been featured many times on our blog. Naoko taught at Pratt University in New York and at the University of Rohde Island. She also lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts for a time. Naoko is currently living and working in Canada in Oakville, Ontario, where she continues to work and exhibit nationally. 

The work of both Hisako and Naoko have had great influence inside the United States and around the world. So lets celebrate their accomplishments! 

This book has end sheets of mulberry paper with inclusions of Bamboo leaves, the cover is a red textured paper with a gold stamped design by Naoko. 

View some of our other AAPI selections for this month.

View our other Staff Picks.

- Teddy, Special Collections Graduate Intern

[mysteriouspercentage]

happy aapi heritage month, loving and friendly reminders

stop erasing pacific islanders or i'll rip out ur spine

asians outnumber pacific islanders by millions and more often than not this month gives CRUMBS to pacific islanders and it's honestly, transparently anti-indigenous at this point.

pacific islanders are melanesian, micronesian, and polynesian. these identities are not homogenous or interchangeable, but are deeply historically connected.

filipinos are not pacific islander and we are not discussing this further

(i am not pacific islander so if anyone from that community wants to add more friendly reminders onto this post, pls do 💛)

east asians are not the only asians

despite being the face of "asian-ness" in the us, there are actually more countries in asia than south korea, north korea, japan, and china.

celebrate southeast asians !

celebrate south asians !

celebrate west asians !

celebrate central asians !

celebrate north asians !

there is so so much diversity in the pacific islander and asian experiences worldwide, and it's well past time we celebrate all of the facets of our identities

celebrate indigenous asians !

celebrate asians who aren't mixed with white !

celebrate dark-skinned asians !

end the diaspora wars !

we need to stand together in community as we face down the capitalist, imperialist, white supremacist machine. uplift each other, and hold each other accountable, always

[renegaedz]

HAPPY AAPI MONTH TO EVERYONE WHO QUESTIONS MY EXISTENCE

NOW ASK ME AGAIN (WHY I WEAR HIJAB)

[juliettelime]

happy asian american pacific islander heritage month! here is some art i made for a local non-profit's aapi heritage month event programming, i was asked to follow a theme of interweaving stories (both cultural and intergenerational) and i also drew upon my own experiences living in the diaspora as a third gen filipino american ☀️

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[turntechgaykid]

My Homestuck Kids Headcanons ✨

(Dave: MLM, Rose: Lesbian + Asexual Jade: Demiromantic/Queer + Asexual John(June): Bisexual (+ Transfem))

Low blood Headcanons

Homestuck Kids Headcanons Pt 2

[cardboardheartss]

can you please do a reading on why white supremacy is going to get stronger in the future?

like what is the reason? what/who is the problem?

i have so much questions and thoughts on this ngl😅

White Supremacy Increase in the Future Mini Reading

Why will there be an increase? : KoS rx, Four of Wands, 10oS, QoS, KoP rx, The Hierophant, QoW rx, KNoW, 10oW & 10oC

There seems to be a lot of higher ups watching everything and everyone, like I’m seriously not joking. There seems to be a white man… obviously, who dislikes the unification of different races worldwide as well as the independence of women. This man definitely has some accounts on social media that push this propaganda of Pro-Whiteness, like those posts about Miss Universe being the ideal beauty and all that nonsense. The same man possibly also keeps pushing the image of black women being masculine, ghetto and feisty. He could also be pushing the whole trad-wife concept onto the media, and can also see this issues of couples going 50/50; once again wouldn’t be surprised if his set accounts on the socials are the ones posting being against 50/50 and all.

Trust me… this man and his employees who run social media account will not back down.

On the more so positive side, we got the 10oC at the bottom of the deck. This could mean that despite all of this happening, some people from all races will still be in support of one another, at times, not all the time!!

Why is this KoS rx reinforcing White Supremacy? : The Sun rx, 5oS rx, KoW rx, Lovers, AoC rx & 7oS

Damn… who broke this guys heart? Or which one of his ancestors from colonial times has possessed him? This guy is extremely anti racial unity? He hates to see people uniting all at once and being supportive of one another. He wants to see more racial wars, diaspora wars, just conflict between races in society, more traditional relationships, religious values and etc. He just wants to set society back to 10,000 centuries ago.

Outcome of his White Supremacy Manifesto? : The Star rx, 5oC rx, Chariot rx, Four of Swords rx, 9oP rx, The Emperor, 6oW, KNoS rx

Yeah! It’s not looking good at all, and I guess my post was right, we will definitely see an increase of White media in the future. I definitely do see some issues when it comes to interracial relationships, mainly between black and white people. I see many black women moving on from dating interracially for a while. Once again, there’s even more confirmation from my cards, that we will definitely be seeing more white people on our screens, and I’m telling you now, there will also be a major increase of racist comments towards POC’s. It’s really really not looking good at all!

I mean just look at this?? These higher ups are mad crazy!

Why the world deciding to go backwards when I’m about to be in my 20’s?? Like damn… can I live?

Feel free to send more questions anon!🙂‍↕️🤎

[dhddmods]

Lately, we have been making many inclusive designs, and this is no exception!

Everyone is free to use this design on shirts, stickers, pins, whatever they'd like, as long as they are using it for inclusive purposes! Just don't claim it as your own, please.

The first is transparent. The second has a background, for easier viewing

Check out our other designs:

I support equality always

Attraction is individual, not societal

Gender and sex are spectrums

Nobody chooses their sex or gender

[rachy-chel]

Maysia 1: OOTD/what’s in my bag

Hello everybody look at all this stuff I got❗️

[powderflower]

man for hispanic heritage month they should’ve done an all hispanic dynamite rampage and collision

[yourdailyqueer]

Shaneel Lal

Gender: Transgender non binary (they/them)

Sexuality: Queer

DOB: 22 January 2000  

Ethnicity: Native Fijian (iTaukei and Girmitiya)

Occupation: Activist, model, columnist

Note: They also identify as Vakasalewalewa and Hijra

[licherature]

Blow their shit up and make them famous! Samoan metal band called Shepherds Reign!

[indio-politics]

fuck the 4th, fuck all colonizer holidays. fuck you if you celebrate genocide. LAND BACK AND LIBERATION