The crops swaying in the wind, The gushing canal watering the fields, Farms – India’s lifeline. Waking up at the crack of dawn, Tending to the fields, without complaining, Farmers – India’s lifeline. It was December 5, 2020. I was supposed to catch a flight to the US…

I turn off my snooze button for the seventh time. I turn to look at the clock and I see that I have five minutes until my zoom class. I grudgingly sit up, grab my laptop from my desk, and crawl back under the covers to watch my…

Hot on the heels of 2018’s “Asian August,” which showed media executives that Asian-centered stories can be profitable, HBO and Netflix have released reality shows centered on Asian families and social circles. HBO’s House of Ho centers on the Vietnamese-American Ho family in Texas, and Netflix’s Bling Empire…

Previously novel phrases such as “social-distancing,” “quarantine,” and “flattening the curve” have been completely normalized by the COVID-19 pandemic. While the daily vocabulary of the average American has expanded to include such terms, many of these words and phrases were once mostly thrown around in a medical setting…

Settler Colonialism(n.): a form of colonialism that seeks to replace the original population of the colonized territory with a new society of settlers. It is essential to understand the distinction between settler colonialism and traditional colonialism in constructing a more appropriate definition of settler colonialism. Settler colonialism is…

When third-year civil engineering student Michelle Truong discovered UCLA’s Teochew Association (TCA) her freshman year, she was taken aback. It never occurred to her that UCLA had a large enough Teochew community to form a club. Growing up in Garden Grove, she didn’t know many other Teochew people…