He may still be the nerd, but at least he gets to wear a black trench.
Continue reading "Why the World Needs Kumar"
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The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force is conducting the largest study ever of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Asian and Pacific Islande Americans. (That's LGBT APIs for short.) They are looking for 500 folks to complete the online survey. It's confidential, anonymous, and available in four languages: English, Chinese, Korean and Vietnamese.
Continue reading "Asian American LGBT Survey"
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Catch Chris Chan Lee's (dir. Yellow) newest film, Undoing, in Los Angeles this week.
Continue reading "[API Events: June 26-July 2]"
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Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta is leaving the Bush administration on July 7. Mineta is one of two Asian Americans and the lone Democrat serving in the president's cabinet.
Continue reading "Mineta Resigning from Bush Cabinet"
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Has anyone been following the story of Lt. Ehren Watada? Watada, an officer at Fort Lewis in the Seattle area, was scheduled to make his first deployment to Iraq this month and earlier this month, made public his intentions not to go.
Watada enlisted in spring 2003, motivated by a desire to help fight against a nation whose leaders were alleged to have weapons of mass destruction. But now, after doing some research, he believes that the Bush Administration lied to the public about these weapons, and that the war and occupation of Iraq is illegal. And he refuses to participate.
Continue reading "Officer Refuses Deployment to Iraq"
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Here's a review in today's NY Times about the new Charlie Chan DVD boxed set.
The reviewer, Dave Kehr, writes that the decision to release a boxed set "represents a reversal for Fox, which had once removed the films from Fox Movie Channel, apparently embarrassed by the European Oland's "yellowface" portrayal of an Asian character."
Continue reading "Charlie Chan: Racist?"
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This weekend here in San Francisco, it’s Pride. Hyphen is co-sponsoring the API Wellness Center’s booth at Pride. Check out their website to learn about their programs for gay men and the transgender community. And stop by the booth. We’ll have some free mags to give away!
Also, Trikone will be doing their part by hosting DesiQ2006, a conference on South Asian lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues. It starts tomorrow.
Continue reading "SF Pride & DesiQ2006"
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See South Asian hip-hop group Karmacy perform in NYC in association with MTV Desi.
Continue reading "[API Events: June 19-25]"
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Attend two programs at the 2006 Filipino Film and Arts Festival in NYC for the price of one.
Continue reading "[API Events: June 12-18]"
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Just wanted to publicize this chapbook. One of these days, we'll have a place to post Call For Entries, etc. But for now, we'll mention items from time to time on our blog. Here's the posting:
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On June 19, 1982, in Detroit, Vincent Chin was beaten to death with a baseball bat by a man and his stepson. The two laid-off autoworkers mistook Chin for Japanese — an Asian group they blamed for the ailing U.S. auto industry. The assailants never served jail time, and later federal civil-rights courts acquitted them entirely of the crime.
Continue reading "The Vincent Chin Memorial Chapbook Prize"
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Interesting back story on how director Justin Lin got to do The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift the way he wanted, via Hyphen editor Brian Lam, via Jeff Yang's Asian Pop column.
Continue reading "No Teriyaki in Lin's Fast and the Furious"
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I went to a really good hip-hop show last weekend.
Continue reading "Asians n' Hip-Hop"
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By Calvin Liu
On May 24, Taiwan’s National Science Council deputy minister, Shieh Ching-jyh, was bizarrely arrested and detained on suspicion of corruption, collusion and profiteering.
Continue reading "Family Calls for Taiwanese Scientist's Release"
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Here is an amazing article from the L.A. Times about a retired F.B.I. agent who was willing to put his reputation on the line to debunk the confessions in the Lodi case.
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What would organizing the Vietnamese community in Oakland look like?
Continue reading "[API Events: June 5-11]"
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We profiled Valarie Kaur and Sharat Raju, filmmakers for post-9.11 Sikh documentary Divided We Fall: Americans in the Aftermath, back in issue 8.
Continue reading "Go See Divided We Fall this Saturday"
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My head’s been wrapped around that other little project I have on my plate, the Slant Film Festival, which takes place this weekend in Houston at the Aurora Picture Show. The Aurora is a really great arts space. It was originally built as a church in 1928. The pews are still there, but now people go there to see cutting edge film — a different kind of church. If you’re in the Houston area, please stop by at one (or both) of the screenings — one is Saturday night and the other is Sunday afternoon. We have an excellent line-up of films this year. Details here. I’ll be bringing some copies of Hyphen with me as well.
It's super busy around here at Hyphen. That's cause Issue 9 has just landed. We just spent all of Tuesday night stuffing the mags into envelopes to mail to you, dear subscribers. Everyone, from editors to event folks to our web team, was there pitching in. We do everything ourselves — from stuffing the issues with subscription cards, to sealing them in envelopes, to dragging them all to the post office. We also have to prepare packing slips to mail to our distributors. And here in the Bay Area, we personally work with many of the independent bookstores who carry us. That means this weekend, Hyphen folks will be driving around, picking up old issues, dropping off new ones. It's a lot of work.
Continue reading "The Not-So-Glamorous Life of Publishing"
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