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Editor's Note: Moving Forward, Moving On

Hyphen is not unlike many of the subjects in this Survival Issue. While the Internet was killing traditional...

By: Harry Mok | Under: Editor's Note, Issue 24: Survival

In the Face of Bullying

Asian American teens bear the brunt of bullies, but a group of Philadelphia teens shows it can be stopped.

Writer: Helen I. Hwang

On a cold December day in 2009, just weeks before Christmas, 15-year-old Trang Dang was walking home from school with her sister and eight friends, all recent...

By: Helen I. Hwang | Under: Feature, Issue 24: Survival

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Voices of Bullying Victims

Bullying includes verbal taunting, physical assaults, exclusion from a peer group, spreading rumors and cyber bullying — and Asian Americans are the most frequently bullied ethnic group, according...

By: Helen I. Hwang | Under: Feature, Issue 24: Survival

Medical Malpractice?

Filipino nurses fight back against discrimination in the workplace

Writer Catherine A. Traywick

Jane Sandoval can’t speak a lick of Tagalog — her parents made sure of that. “There’s no excuse for you to not speak well. You were born here,” her father used...

By: Catherine A Traywick | Under: Feature, Issue 24: Survival

A Life Designed

Pared-down style and crafting with blogger Sally J. Shim

“There’s this misinterpretation that my life is perfect,” says Sally J. Shim, whose crafts blog, Shim & Sons, has garnered...

By: Gloria Kim | Under: Takeout, Issue 24: Survival

CON-VERSE-SATIONS

Two poets and a critic discuss the current state of Asian American poetry

With so many poetry-phobes who claim to just not “get” poems, we decided it was high time to devote some much-deserved attention to poetry.

By: Abigail Licad a... | Under: Books, Issue 24: Survival

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Top Three: Charles Yu

We asked Charles Yu, author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe (Pantheon): What are the best stories of survival?

By: Charles Yu | Under: Books, Issue 24: Survival

Book Review: 'Partitions' by Amit Majmudar

It’s 1947, and the last trains bearing the displaced between the soon-to-be nations of India and Pakistan have left in the midst of raging floods of communal violence.

By: Nawaaz Ahmed | Under: Books, Issue 24: Survival

Book Review: 'The Good Muslim' by Tahmima Anam

Tahmima Anam’s The Good Muslim narrates the aftermath of the birth of Bangladesh as a new nation in 1971.

By: Mosarrap Hossai... | Under: Books, Issue 24: Survival

Book Review: 'Leche' by R. Zamora Linmark

Fans of the Asian American classic Rolling the R's are in luck: R. Zamora Linmark's frenetic meditation on Hawaiian transnational teenagerhood is finally sequeled.

By: Claire Light | Under: Books, Issue 24: Survival

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Keep on keepin' on with our latest edition, featuring World War II internment camp survivors on the cover.

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