Amanda is a fourth year Anthropology (B.A.) major and an Asian American Studies minor. She enjoys reading, photography, and food.
Every culture has their own superstitions when it comes to the supernatural world. Here is a collection of superstitions from our staff! Whistling at night attracts bad spirits in Khmer culture. In Lao culture, singing/screaming at night attracts bad spirits. Children can see something adults cannot. Having chopsticks stuck upright in a bowl of rice…
*trigger warning for self harm and violence lost in her daydreams with her mind miles away she stares off into the darkness wishing she did not stray with everyone around her she can’t help but feel alone love and care was a stranger but she craves it like a drug in her mind, she was…
88rising released their second compilation album, Head In The Clouds II, on October 11, 2019. The album spotlights a large range of talented artists. However, one of the standouts in the album lies within the fourteenth track, titled “I Love You 3000 II.” Originally written and produced by Stephanie Poetri, “I Love You 3000 II”…
It is important for the APIDA (Asian Pacific Islander Desi American) community at UCLA to understand the importance of the ruling from the Harvard Affirmative Action lawsuit on Tuesday, October 1st, 2019. Cornell Law School defines affirmative action as, “A set of procedures designed to eliminate unlawful discrimination among applicants, remedy the results of such…
(inspired by Professor Mai Ngai’s lecture) Anti-Immigration sentiment has always been prevalent in America. From the Chinese Exclusion Acts and neglection of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, to American imperialism in Southeast Asia and El Salvador, those who identify as Latinx and Asian seem to constantly be positioned as foreigners who are unable to assimilate…
Home is waking up to the banging on my mother’s mortar and pestle. I learned it’s the best type of wake up call and I can smell the fried garlic in the wok. It is the bait that reels my little brother and I into the kitchen, where my dad is talking her ear off…