Why Isn’t There Asian Mom Blogger Outreach for Disney’s Big Hero 6?
The main character of Disney’s Big Hero 6 is a Hiro Hamada, a Japanese-Caucasian mixed-race boy living in the imaginary city of San Fransokyo. I stumbled upon the new animated movie, when searching...
View ArticleWhat Asian Americans Are Saying About Ferguson
Image Credit: Jenny Lam via Twitter I am too tired to write anything about Ferguson in the wake of the grand jury’s decision not to indict police officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of Mike...
View ArticleTell the White House What You Think About Bullying of AAPI Students
Image Credit: Tom Lohdan via Flickr Has your child experienced bullying? Studies have shown that Asian American teens experience far more bullying in school than other racial demographics, with over...
View ArticleWho You Calling Anchor Baby? #MyAsianAmericanStory
That’s me… as a baby… back in the 1970s… with my parents… who were both legal immigrants to the U.S. After the resurrection of the term “anchor baby” in this presidential primary season, I thought...
View ArticlePrevent Bullying of AAPI Kids With The White House #ActtoChange
Image Credit: White House AAPI Initiative The White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders is launching the Act to Change campaign to prevent bullying. Because race-based bullying...
View ArticleChloe Bennet, #AsianAmEqualPay and More – News for the Week of 3/14/2016
Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Here are some stories you might have missed this week… but you might find interesting. Chloe Bennet, Image Credit: ABC Did you know that Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’s Chloe...
View ArticleShould Loving Day Be a National Holiday?
Image Credit: Focus Films Happy Loving Day! June 12 is Loving Day, the anniversary of the 1967 Loving v. Virginia ruling, the Supreme Court case that legalized interracial marriage. Next year will be...
View ArticleBest Posts About Asians and #BlackLivesMatter
It’s been a tragic and mind-numbing week for police shootings of Black people, and the shooting of police officers in Dallas, and it makes me so bordering on hopeless about America that part of me...
View ArticleTrump’s Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric Hits Home
Image Credit: Grace Hwang Lynch I had this conversation with my son last fall, when Donald Trump was just one — albeit the most provocative and colorful — of the Republican presidential candidates:...
View ArticleWhere Do We Go From Here?
Me and the family, in front of the World War II Memorial in Washington D.C. The kids were a little smaller then. I had a feeling this was going to happen. Because I have heard it brewing. In...
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