This Thursday night, China Care Bruins will be hosting its third annual awareness night (FUSE) in Kerckhoff Grand Salon. Here’s the press release: This Thursday evening, China Care Bruins is hosting FUSE, our third annual awareness night in Kerckhoff Grand Salon. The event will feature free musical entertainment,…
If you ever watch T.V. with me for a prolonged amount of time, you’ll quickly notice my habit of pointing at the screen and shouting “Asian!” every time there’s an Asian in a commercial. It…might not make you want to watch T.V. with me. Rest assured, though; you…
I took some time this week to read an article about Forever 21: its origins and its future. It’s a long read, but a fascinating one. I copied and pasted all these quotes that I could talk about, but then I realized that it would make this post…
Happy Lunar New Year’s! May you have lots of fun, surrounded by friends, family, and loved ones. Here’s a brief statement about the New Year’s from President Obama. I send my best wishes to Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, and all who celebrate the Lunar New Year across…
As a journalist (kind of) I have an obligation to be honest, so here goes: I’ve read The Joy Luck Club (and many other Amy Tan books) multiple times. I might even have teared up over The Joy Luck Club, movie version. I thought it was poignant, moving,…
Remember that Vogue article in December that claimed that Asians are “re-defining” beauty? Givenchy’s Ricardo Tisci has followed that up by hiring Asian models to display his new samurai robot inspired gowns. Asians modeling samurais and robots. How truly groundbreaking (and in case you didn’t catch my sarcasm,…