May 2012
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“By 1991, L.A. rap was all tension and little release. On Cypress Hill’s “Pigs,”...”
– Jeff Chang in a very cool piece in the LA Review of Books: “I Gotta Be Able To Counterattack: Rap and the Los Angeles Riots.” (via thepoliticalnotebook)
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The Media Portrayals Of LA Riots, 20 Years Later →
April 29, 2012, marked twenty years after the LA riots.
It’s been said that the media coverage at that time played a part in worsening the violence. In an interview about his documentary, Clash of Colors: The LA Riots of 1992, David Kim describes that the media’s focus on the tension between the Korean American and African American community exacerbated the conflict. Twenty years later, most of...
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South Korea’s Adoption Day & the Transnational... →
According to this article from the Wall Street Journal, May 11th is Adoption Day in South Korea.
The article interviews Jane Jeong Trenka, who was adopted from South Korea to the US. She currently works in South Korea as the president of Truth & Reconciliation for the Adoption Community of Korea (TRACK), where she envisions changing societal prejudices against single mothers raising children...
April 2012
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March 2012
6 posts
forWord Movement: Projekt NewSpeak Interview by... →
forwordcollective:
The Mexi-Asian Perspective: A Latino’s Guide to All Things Latin, Asian, or Both
by David A. Romero
Many vie for the title of hardest working poet (or poets) in Los Angeles. Many claim the title of hardest working poet (or poets) in Los Angeles. Every year sees the rise and fall of new venues and new, hungry artists making the rounds to fill them with their passion...
February 2012
28 posts
Kiwi Illafonte: When They Don't Show Up. →
kiwizzo:
Today was a test of my heart.
This afternoon was supposed to be the orientation for the Young Asian Men’s Program I coordinate in Downtown Oakland.
After a pretty successful session last Summer, the organization decided to keep the program going, and bring me back to run it. Of course I was…
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yesss im so glad you articulated this, Thanu...
“I’ve always been drawn to the art of M.I.A. — a Sri Lankan Tamil raised in England. When I first saw her “Galang” video back in 2005, I was awestruck: to have a visible Sri Lankan in Western popular culture seemed implausible. What struck me about M.I.A. early on is that she often positioned herself in relation to the Global South — in videos emphasizing dance (i.e., “Bird Flu,”...
the life of an Asian American man is only worth 30... →
el-tang:
In 2012, the life of an Asian American man has been deemed by the courts as only worth 30 days in jail. In 1982, at least they had deemed it was $3000. People need to know about what happened and what is happening; this is the Vincent Chin case unfurling before our eyes.
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“No te rindas, por favor no cedas, aunque el frio queme, aunque el miedo muerda,...”
– Mario Benedetti (via ariadnaleon)
“Her beauty cannot be measured with standards of a colonized mind”
– meshell ndegeocello (via restoried)
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“Rebellion is a stage in the development of revolution but it is not a...”
– -Grace Lee Boggs (1993)
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my friend is pretty much just kickass.
wish i could be at his party.
“Since Valentine Day is coming up soon i want to let all my single friends know that you are invited to my Valentine Party for single people. It will be a celebration for being SINGLE and FABULOUS and partially a healing session for all the negative drama you experienced in your past relationships. A pinata will be provide for those who would like to express...
January 2012
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miseengarde:
white girls who want my culture’s bindis and saris and henna
take my skin colour too
and my dark brown lips
take my self-hatred because i don’t fit into the euro-centric ideals of beauty
take the oppression too
take the history of colonization that has devastated my country
and the drones that currently devastate my country
take all the bad stuff too
not just the pretty,...
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