#Asian-American

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The Green Turtle: The Shadow Hero

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Anna May Wong

Art by Alejandro Mogollo

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Balalaika won a (old) recent poll contest,With Revy coming in second place.

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Dìdi (弟弟, dir. Sean Wang).

Set in the recent past of the summer of 2008 in the Bay Area, [the] Oscar-nominated Taiwanese-American first-time filmmaker [...] takes his own experiences growing up to tell a tender coming-of-age story. Wang's small-scale, semi-autobiographical indie drama is rich with details of its time period featuring juvenile humour about friendship, crushes, and fitting as the son of an immigrant mother.

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Dan sat down with designer Banana-chan at Gen Con to chat about Jiangshi: Blood In The Banquet Hall, diaspora horror, and making a game about regular people (and vampires).

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Oh fuck, it’s almost June. Okay, here’s a quick and dirty Asian American literature sweep I recommend for AAPI month. Note this is not meant to cover all of AAPI—obviously, because they’re different ethnic groups and it barely even makes sense to combine the categories to begin with—but instead blast out some of the most famous works that, IMO, should already be household names outside of AsAm lit/studies. I also, just based off my own interests, included works that look at the interplay between race and gender and sexuality.

I included “trending” writers, but I also wanted to redirect some attention to work and writings that have been in this field for literally decades. This is off the top of my head and written on my phone, plus I doubt anyone will read this. I may return to this in the future.

Essayists & Memoirs:

Eric Liu, Notes of a Native Speaker

Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior

Alexander Chee, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel

Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings

Jia Tolentino, Trick Mirror

Jay Caspian Kang, The Loneliest Americans

Hua Hsu, Stay True

Playwrights:

David Henry Hwang: Chinglish, Yellow Face, M. Butterfly

Novelists/Authors:

Louis Chu, Eat a Bowl of Tea

Amy Tan, Joy Luck Club

Gene Luen Yang, American Born Chinese

Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer

Charles Yu, Interior Chinatown

Elaine Hsieh Chou, Disorientation

Ling Ma, Severance

RF Kuang, Yellow Face

Poets:

Theresa Hak Kyung Chu

Arthur Sze

Justin Chin

Timothy Liu

Cathy Park Huang

Ocean Vuong

Other:

David L. Eng, Racial Castration

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Inez Fung

Atmospheric scientist Inez Fung was born in Hong Kong in 1949. Fung is one of the world's foremost experts on climate and the carbon cycle. She is currently a professor of atmospheric science at UC Berkley. Fung has won numerous awards, including NASA's Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal, and the Carl Gustaf-Rossby Research Medal, the American Meteorological Society's highest honor for atmospheric scientists. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and was a contributor to the Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Image source: Whitehouse.gov

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Never Been Chris'd (2023, Jeff Beesley)

12/23/23

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#NowPlaying: "Reclaiming, part 1: Home is Little Tokyo" by State of the Human

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Her Good Side by Rebekah Weatherspoon

Summary from Edelweiss: **A New York Times Best Romance Book of the Year** A swoony, heart-melting YA romance from beloved author Rebekah Weatherspoon about two awkward teens who decide to practice dating in order to be good at the real thing. Perfect for fans of Nicola Yoon and Jenny Han. Sixteen-year-old Bethany Greene, though confident and self-assured, is what they call a late-bloomer.…

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Volume 11 ft. Revy.

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sitting here trying to get through the video of Ke Huy Quan's interview on The Late Show and I'm just. incandescent with rage at Spielberg, Lucas, Harrison Ford, all of them, the entire racist Hollywood edifice that ground Quan down under its heel for 38 years - and only now they give him hugs and standing ovations, now that somebody else did what they should have done well before now. And still, Quan sits there with joyful smiles and speaks of them as his friends, as part of his "heartwarming" story, when they don't deserve it. I don't know if he really is that much of a sunshine human being or if he's just swallowing down all his resentment with the ease of long practice, but either way - I'm feeling it in his stead. fuck all of them.