U.S. employers are exploiting elderly women immigrants from India. Although Indians are the third-largest immigrant group residing in the United States as of June 2010, the American Dream is not in sight for these women. With limited language skills and unclear immigration statuses, these elderly women resort to…
Palisades Park, in North Jersey, will display the first U.S. memorial to women forced into slavery by Japanese during WWII on October 23rd, 2010. Hundreds of thousands Asian women, mostly Korean, were forced into sexual slavery by Japanese soldiers before and during WWII. The Japanese military established these…
Many people yesterday wore purple in honor of Spirit Day, in order to raise awareness for the recent teen LGBT suicides. There have been at least nine suicides in the last few weeks, as a result of anti-gay bullying. Various other projects have been started as well, including…
It’s been raining. You might rush out of your apartment, forgetting that key object that’ll keep you dry: an umbrella. But if you’re like me, you don’t even own one. So what happens if you forget to bring it? It’s already too late to go back up to…
U.S. and DREAM Act— Which egg are you?
I was browsing the LA Times’s A&E blog Culture Monster when I saw an article about CalArts (the California Institute of the Arts) recently opening a new building called Wild Beast. The name comes from a Morton Feldman quote: “I am interested in how the wild beast lives in…