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Exciting news everyone: A new literary journal dedicated to Asian American writing -- the Asian American Literary Review (AALR) -- is mere months away from hitting the stands. As a writer, I think that the pulse of American writing is found in its literary journals. Sure, they may not be as sexy as The New Yorker, or even get top billing at bookstores, as Stephen King wrote about a few years ago, but it's the place where you find the real writing, both from established writers and emerging ones. Even in this hyper-connected world, journals continue to be a place where literary arts can be both showcased and discussed with abandon. My very first creative publication was in the pages of the Asian Pacific American Journal, the literary journal of the Asian American Writers' Workshop, back in 1998. I remember how exciting it was to have my poem be a part of this collection of writings from Asian Americans all over the country. Now, the AALR hopes to create these kind of creative connections for a whole new era of Asian American literature.   

Continue reading "Please Welcome the Asian American Literary Review"

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Congratulations to Hyphen co-founder, blogger and contributor Claire Light on the publication of Slightly Behind and to the Left: Four Stories and Three Drabbles, part of Aqueduct Press' Conversation Series.

Aqueduct is a small press dedicated to "publishing challenging, feminist science fiction," including authors like Ursula K. Le Guin (you know, of EarthSea!).

Continue reading "Get 'Slightly Behind and to the Left'"

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Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by children's author and illustrator Grace Lin won a Newbery Honor award this past Monday (photos and description of her receiving "the call" found at her blog).

Moon now joins the likes of Charlotte's Web and Beverly Cleary's Ramona books in the pantheon of round silver-stickered classics. That'll do, Moon. That'll do.

Continue reading "Grace Lin's 'Moon' Wins Newbery Honor"

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There's nothing like starting off the new year with a fat pile of books by your side. Here's a round-up of the year's best Asian American books to help keep you warm until the Spring.

Continue reading "10 Notable Asian American Books of 2009"

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Diana Nguyen (left) and Jen Wang of Disgrasian. Photo by Derek Liu

Continue reading "Ladies of Disgrasian Blazing on Hyphen's Cover"

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After Cynthia took off I checked out the second half of the Page Turner Literary Festival. It was fantastic and inspiring to see so many people packed into one space for this event. On a personal note, I credit the Asian American Writers Workshop with changing my life -- an internship there back in 1996 introduced me to an amazing community of writers, artists and activists. (I also edited their magazine for several years after college.) The AAWW  offered me real-life examples of being a working writer, something that I never even saw as possible before that. It's great to see it not only still going strong, but also expanding its programming to include larger-scale events like Page Turner.

Continue reading "Page Turner Literary Festival: Part Two!"

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This Saturday I was lucky enough to check out the first half of the Inaugural day-long Page Turner Asian American Literary Fest, presented by the nonprofit literary arts organization Asian American Writers' Workshop.

Held in the expansive Brooklyn PowerHouse Arena, the festival was packed with compelling sessions featuring writers, performers, academics, and journalists, making it hard for this gal to choose which ones to drop in on. The sessions had an impressive turnout, and with speakers parked on couches as opposed to stuck behind a podium or table, had a less stiff, formalized vibe than your typical panel (more pics here).

Continue reading "Page Turner: Asian American Literary Festival"

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When the Hyphen editorial team discovered that Amy Tan was the recipient of the third annual Litquake Barbary Coast Award for contribution to the Bay Area literary community, there was a flurry of confused emails: What exactly was this award and why did Amy Tan deserve to win it? I decided to go and investigate how the San Francisco literary community celebrates one of Asian America's most (in)famous writers. 

Continue reading "The Best Amy Tan is a Braised Amy Tan"

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Are you an aZn sci-fi geek? (If you let that modifier stand without complaint, I guarantee that you're not.) If so, and if you have any idea who Octavia Butler is, check this out! (I promise, there's an Asian connection in there.)

Continue reading "Octavia Butler Scholarship Benefit at Litquake Saturday!"

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I'll admit I was skeptical, to start.

My first time hearing of Lac Su's memoir, he was doing an interview on NPR. In that smug/vaguely pitying white liberal way, the interviewer was fascinated with the book's title, and insisted that the title's story be aired (how a young Lac had tried those TV words of affection on his father, and been savagely rebuffed). Which made me wonder: would this be a book for telling white people things that we (sons and daughters of Asian immigrants) already damn well know? 

Continue reading "Lac Su, 'I Love Yous Are for White People'"

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Recently, I had the pleasure of participating in a well-attended Asian Pacific American Latin@ literary event which took place at The Nest, a super cool live/work loft and art space in Oakland. Poet Kenji C. Liu curated and hosted the event, which was meant to celebrate the connections between our API and Latino activist and artist communities.

Continue reading "Small Press: Kenji Liu, 'You Left Without Your Shoes'"

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The economic downturn (dare I say, nascent depression) has hit the media sector especially hard, taking its toll on ethnic media -- as Harry recently posted about. But the publishing world -- facing similar competition from online media, the Kindle and declining readership -- is also facing some seriously hard times. Where does this leave the Asian American lit scene?

Continue reading "Nurturing Asian American Literature"

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In his foreword to Legaspi's debut collection, Imago, poet Philip Levine writes, "Legaspi, like William Carlos Williams, can find poetry anywhere. And like his mentor Pablo Neruda, he seems able to locate the mysterious and the magical in the most common and overlooked objects."

Imago is a lush and dense collection of poems, in which even the tradition of Filipino adolescent circumcision is infused with lovely details, as in the opening poem, "Imago":

boys wearing the skirts of their sisters
and grandmothers, touched
by the hands of their mothers,
baptized by green waters,
and how by week's end
we will shed our billowy skirts,
like monarchs, and enter
the gardens of our lives.

Continue reading "Small Press: Joseph O. Legaspi, 'Imago'"

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I've just spent a better part of my weekend at the San Francisco International Poetry Festival, in which El Paso-based Pinay poet Sasha Pimentel Chacon participated. Some of you may remember her name from Neela Banerjee's review of OCHO #16, a literary journal which I guest-edited last year, and in which I included Chacon's poems. While the former San Francisco Poet Laureate Jack Hirschman invited Chacon as a poet representing the Philippines, she was raised in Atlanta, schooled at Fresno State, and now teaches at University of Texas at El Paso. In other words, she is an American poet. Still, it was great to see the festival include a Pinay voice, especially one so fierce.

Continue reading "Small Press: Sasha Pimentel Chacon, 'Insides She Swallowed'"

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There is something heartbreaking about Filipino American poet Nick Carbo's latest collection of poetry, provocatively titled Chinese, Japanese, What Are These? For those of you not in the know, the book's title references the xenophobic children's rhyme, "Chinese, Japanese, dirty knees, what are these?" The gestures accompanying said rhyme include using one's hands to stretch the eyes, hence making the "chinky eye." The movement corresponding to "What are these?" is to show or motion towards the breasts, exaggerating their size.

Continue reading "Small Press: Nick Carbo, 'Chinese, Japanese, What Are These?'"

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Hi all. This is my first post to the Hyphen blog, so here is a very brief introduction. I'm Barbara Jane Reyes, and I am a Pinay poet and author based in Oakland. I blog regularly on poetics and the American poetry industry. One thing I'd like to do with my posts here is to introduce you all to some of the writers in our community who are published by small, independent, and grassroots presses.

While many lament the death of print and the death of the book in this digital age and current economic situation, with the downsizing of major publishing houses and major publications migrating from paper to internet-only formats, here is one thing to consider: small and independent presses are generally not known for doling out lucrative contracts to potential authors. Due to this apparent absence of profitability, small and independent presses are able to publish and distribute the work of writers who exist outside of the mainstream.

For API authors, independent presses present the opportunity to write and publish books which are not market driven. We do not have to pitch our manuscripts as written in the vein of popular and bestselling Asian American literature about exotica and food. 

Continue reading "Small Press: Maiana Minahal, 'Legend Sondayo'"

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Uh ... was anyone actually suggesting that Obama invade Iran? I mean, other than crazy mans on da streets?

Because (m)O('bettah)bama is the very opposite of a brutal regime dictator tyrant evil axis thingie. (m)O('bettah)bama is good. It is Ahmadinejad who is brutal 'n' evil. And Kim Il thingie. And, like, Angela Merkel, and Johnson & Johnson. And Metallica.

Actually, if you look around, the Brutal Regimes are everywhere. Everywhere. Wow. It's frightening.

Continue reading "Hyphen Lynks: Brutal Regime (Watch Out!) Edition"

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It seems, in fact, that now somebody's written a book about them ... that somebody being a white dude married to an Asian woman. Sigh.

Continue reading "More On Asian Sexual Fetishes: Laura Miller on 'The East, the West, and Sex'"

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What do a wannabe Indian American surfer, a Taiwanese rock band, a Bhangra love affair, an escape from Vietnam and a suspected parental affair have in common? These were all subjects of finalist stories from the second annual Hyphen and Asian American Writers' Workshop Short Story contest. Come out to AAWW this Thursday May 28th at 7 pm and hear winning author Shivani Manghnani, along with finalists Bushra Rehman, Kevin Tang, Joy Wood and Ky-Phong Tran read. You can also pick up the Family Issue of Hyphen with Manghnani's winning story: "Playing the Sheik."

Continue reading "Celebration Reading for Hyphen and AAWW Short Story Contest: May 28th, NYC"

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Sung Woo's debut book of interwoven short stories Everything Asian (Thomas Dunne Books) is set mostly in East Meets West, an Asian gift shop located in a strip mall in New Jersey during the 1980s, and concerns a Korean immigrant family trying to acculturate and get reacquainted with their father/husband -- who had already been in the US for five years. We asked Woo -- a former literature section contributor to Hyphen -- to subject himself to our set of literary questions.

Continue reading "The WRITE Questions with Sung Woo"

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It's May, peoples! It's Asian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month! This year is also the 20th Anniversary of the publication of Amy Tan's classic Asian American immigrant novel, The Joy Luck Club.

We have a love/hate relationship with that book. Love because it was our first foray into the mainstream of American fiction, a moment of broad self-acknowledgment many Asian Americans remember with fondness. Hate for many reasons: because it focused on women to the detriment of men (for a perspective, see Alvin's comments here); because it proposed an immigrant arc similar to that of Europeans, glossing over the continuing issues Asian immigrants have in this country; because it was so successful it coerced a generation of Asian American novelists to Joy Luck their way into a writing career.

So, to express our ambivalent Happy Birthday, here's a bouquet of tiny immigration tales. These are 300-word, true stories, from real Asian Americans, that complicate and argue with the story The Joy Luck Club tells. The complete awesomeness, vitality, and real diversity of these stories is exactly what my problem with the Joy Lucking of Asian American writing is about. We always knew these stories were out there; I just didn't know we could get so many great ones in such a short time.

(My only caveat is that we didn't get enough stories from men. Imagine how much broader the range would be if we had! Maybe next year ...)

Enjoy(luck)!

Continue reading "The Joy Luck Hub Blog Carnival: Asian American Immigrant Stories!"

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Hey all, just a leetle reminder that you still have ONE WEEK to submit your 300-word immigrant stories for the "Joy Luck Hub" blog carnival ... to honor, or argue with, or dump on, The Joy Luck Club, which turns 20 this year.

All stories are due May 1! Just in time for Asian Pacific Islander Heritage Month. Here's the rules 'n' stuff.

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I always wish that Hyphen blog could do more in the way of promoting literature from our communities, but we have a lot to cover and none of us has the time to do the one topic justice (do we?)

Fortunately, we don't have to! Terry Hong at the Smithsonian Institute's Institution's Asian Pacific American program has just started Book Dragon, an APA book blog! Yay! The blog is especially cookin' because she covers basically whatever the heck she feels like. Most of it is APA, but there's some other stuff sprinkled in. Awrsome.

Plus, although the blog is new, it goes back to 2001 right now because

I'm populating this blog both backwards and forwards – I've got lots of reviewed titles from years back which I'm adding in slowly (clearly signs of old age, I realize!).

She can get as old as she likes! Read on, you crazy dragon.

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It's being called "#amazonfail" because the word went out over Twitter last week: Amazon has a grand new scheme for censoring LGBT books.

Continue reading "Amazon Censors LGBT Books"

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Help us honor and argue with The Joy Luck Club on the 20th Anniversary of its publication AND celebrate API Heritage Month in May! Send us your immigrant story in 300 words or less!

Continue reading "The Joy Luck Hub: Call for Submissions!"

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Thaddeus Rutkowski's novel Roughhouse (Kaya Press)
has been described as "in-your-face punk realism with touches
of the surreal and subversive black humor."
His second novel, Tetched, takes the experimental form of "fractals" --
or chapters composed of several paragraph-sized vignettes.
We asked the New York-based writer to subject himself to
our set of literary questions. [See Rutkowski read at Eastwind Books of  Berkeley, Saturday April 4th at 7 p.m.]

Continue reading "The WRITE Questions with Thaddeus Rutkowski"

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I've been following the supposed demise of the mainstream publishing world pretty closely. What wannabe writer isn't? Is it the Kindle or Amazon or huge advances or just that no one reads anymore? Whatever it is, I'm trying to adapt my daydreams about my forthcoming beautifully-designed hardback book and world tour to perhaps a new reality ... one that involves selling electronic chapbooks out of the trunk of my electric car.

But in the meantime, the success of two Bay Area-based Asian American writers -- Minal Hajratwala and Yiyun Li -- has been buoying my dismal thoughts with the release of their latest books. 

Continue reading "Against the Grain: Minal Hajratwala and Yiyun Li"

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Film adaptations of comic books are a dime a dozen in Hollywood these days, with a track record that suggests studios are pumping out more Batman Forevers than Dark Knights. But what happens when your task is to bring the words of history's most acclaimed graphic novel -- and one of Time magazine's 100 greatest novels of all time -- to the big screen?

Enter Alex Tse, a San Francisco native who is the co-screenwriter of the much-anticipated Watchmen adaptation, which opened last week to the tune of $55 million. Tse first came onto the scene as the writer of 2004's multiethnic crime drama, Sucker Free City, directed by Spike Lee. Now with the success of Watchmen, he's in demand but still making time to return to his roots. Hyphen caught up with Tse before his visit to the 2009 San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival to learn about his climb from a kid in journalism camp to bona fide Hollywood screenwriter.

Read the interview in our web features area and comeback here if you have a comment. (Unfortunately, our publishing system doesn't allow commenting on articles.)

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After half a year of planning, collaborating, announcing, administering, reading and judging, I am so excited that we announced the winner of the 2008 Hyphen/Asian American Writers' Workshop Short Story Contest winner (Shivani Manghnani for "Playing The Sheik") and the finalists this week. Especially because I've been waiting over a month to share what I gleaned from reading the over 160 stories featuring Asian American characters and beyond.

Continue reading "What Asian Americans Are Writing About"

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Are you a poet interested in working in an exclusively Asian American workshop? Kundiman is taking applications for its 2009 Retreat.

The following is directly quoted from Kundiman's announcement. Please don't ask us for more information; we don't have any! Just go to the links below and ask them.

Continue reading "Calling All Poets: Kundiman Retreat"

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I am giddy with excitement because we are almost ready to announce the winner of the second Hyphen and Asian American Writers' Workshop short story contest! The judges will get back to us with their final decisions this week. Eee! In the meantime, I found two interesting posts by Asian American writers this week on writing and revision.

Continue reading "An Aside on Revising"

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Grace Cho, author of Haunting the Korean Diaspora: Shame, Secrecy and the Forgotten War, will be presenting her book, followed by a community discussion, this Saturday at the Wing Luke Asian Museum in Seattle. Her book is an analysis of US neocolonialism, militarized prostitution, and transgenerational trauma, examining the history between Korean women and American servicemen through sex work and marriage.

Since the Korean War, over a million women have acted as sex workers for US soldiers, and over 100,000 married GIs and emigrated to America. Haunting the Korean Diaspora also explores the repressed history of violence and consequences of such sexual relationships for Koreans and Korean Americans in both the private realm and public discourse. The discussion will also include topics of adoption, memory, and occupation.

Grace Cho is also a contributing performance artist to the Wing Luke Museum's current exhibit "Still Present Pasts: Korean Americans and the Forgotten War." I recently saw the exhibit and it's definitely worth checking out, as a powerful collection of oral and visual accounts from survivors and their families. Both the book discussion and exhibition are included as part of Wing Luke's free third Saturdays programming.

Saturday January 17th
5:30 to 7:30pm
Free!
Wing Luke Asian Museum
719 South King Street (Chinatown-International District)
Seattle, WA

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Just like champagne, party dresses and forced kisses, nothing says "New Year's Time" like a BEST OF list. I scoured literary pages from the New York Times to the School Library Journal to find out how Asian American (and Asian British and Asian Australian) writers fared on the Best Books of 2008 lists.

Continue reading "Best Asian American Books of 2008"

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I'm not going to lie. I like stuff. I like getting it and I like giving it. As much as I can bravely plow through a mall during the holiday season ('tis the Hong Kong heritage in me), it's more pleasant to buy artist-made goods from the comfort and convenience of the Interwebs. Here're a few crafty, small-run, and indie media gifts.

Continue reading "Melissa's Crafty Holiday Gift Guide"

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The bad news is that, no matter what a lickspittle striver you were this year, you might not get that bonus, 'cuz the economy sux.

The good news is that, by pretending to be a conscious aZn who only cares about kultcher, you can save money on gifts, AND out-virtue all your friends! Here's how!

Continue reading "Claire's aZn KulTchuR Holiday Gift Guide"

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Continue reading "Laotian American Poet is 2009 NEA Fellow!"

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On September 29 Stanford University Press will release Asian American Art: A History, 1850-1970, a collection of artwork and essays edited by Gordon H. Chang, Mark Johnson, and Paul Karlstrom. The book recovers and discusses the social/historical context of a number of impressive works of Asian American art that have been overlooked in American art history.

Continue reading "New Book "Asian American Art""

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Support the oldest multidisciplinary Asian Pacific American arts organization in the country by winning 2 tickets to ANY of the events listed below.

The 10th person to email me at lisalee(at)hyphenmagazine.com with the correct answer to "when was KSW founded" will win big. In your email, please also let me know what performance you'd like to attend.

Continue reading "Kearny Street Workshop Presents APAture 2008 & Win Free Tickets"

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Chalk this up to a book I won't be buying because I'm sick of askaninja.com, white guys who create ninja characters, white ninjas, bad white ninja opening songs, white ninja accents, and just all around white ninja-like people and characters.

I mean do we really need more of this?

Continue reading "Bad Read: 'The Ninja Handbook'"

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Great news for you undiscovered fiction writers out there: the Hyphen and Asian American Writers' Workshop Short Story contest deadline has been extended to Monday Sept. 29th, 2008. So, dust off that typewriter and polish up that story from that writing workshop in college ... you have a few more months to let the creativity flow.

Continue reading "Hyphen and AAWW Short Story Contest DEADLINE EXTENDED!!!"

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For all of you cubicle dwellers (sadly, myself included), author Ed Park feels your pain. His debut novel "Personal Days" (Random House) chronicles the monotony and absurdity of corporate office life and is, according to the San Francisco Examiner, "screamingly funny."

Continue reading "Ed Park's debut novel "Personal Days""

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We know that there are millions of undiscovered Jumpha Lahiris, Jessica Hagedorns and Ha Jins out there, so stop waiting and send your best short story to the 2008 Hyphen and Asian American Writers' Workshop short story contest!

Continue reading "30 More Days to Submit to the Hyphen/AAWW Short Story Contest?!"

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The New York Times Sunday Book Review takes a look at Nam Le's "The Boat" this week, a collection of stories that isn't solely about that first trip to America. Frankly, I find it refreshing. Asian American literature, and ethnic literature as a whole, shouldn't just be about the Great Immigration Story (a genre which, in my opinion, often pigeonholes us as being perpetual foreigners). It should be about all aspects of life, and all things creative.

As one of Le's characters says in the opening story, "You could totally exploit the Vietnamese thing. But instead, you choose to write about lesbian vampires and Colombian assassins and Hiroshima orphans -- and New York painters with hemorrhoids." Ditto.

To read the full NYTimes review, click here.

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Continue reading "Jhumpa Lahiri as Subtle as Her Writing"

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Ever wondered about the history of chop suey, General Tso's chicken, fortune cookies? Let me give you a clue, the answer does not include China. This is for all you curious foodies out there, including people like me, someone who's way into food but cannot cook to save her life.

New York Times reporter and author Jennifer 8. Lee will be in San Francisco tonight to celebrate the launch of her first book, "The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food." I heard that Jennifer will be giving a multimedia presentation and sharing some stories from her travels to 42 states and countless countries to uncover the mysteries of Chinese food.

Continue reading ""The Fortune Cookie Chronicles" Launch Party"

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Ever wonder what it's like to watch grainy 1920s silent porn in a room full of strangers?

Well, when accompanied by Professor of Asian American Studies (UC Santa Barbara) Celine Parreñas Shimizu’s accessible (and often hilarious) analysis of racialized sexual imagery and the various expressions of sexuality through performance, it's actually not that awkward.

Continue reading "A Hypersexual Afternoon Delight"

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