On Tuesday, April 6, Lee Ann S. Wang presented a talk at UCLA entitled Asian American Feminisms and the Re-Writing of Legal Voice: Immigration Law, Criminal Enforcement, and “Cooperation.” Wang, a UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Berkeley, addressed the discourse of the U visa that requires immigrants seeking the visa to be subject to…
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The term “yellow fever” was thought to be triggering for Asian women, to which Yong- Yi replied, “I agree, it can be triggering. It is triggering to Asian women who continue to be hypersexualized and feel like they have to fit a certain beauty standard; it is triggering to the community it harms the most.”
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The University of Southern California Pakistani Student Association hosted the 8th annual SoCal PSA Culture Show featuring Salman Ahmad of Junoon, in conjunction with the PSAs from UC Irvine, UC Riverside and UCLA.
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Just as not all Muslims speak Arabic, not all those who speak Arabic are Muslim.
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On April 1st, the Association of Hmong Students (AHS) held an event called “Hmong Awareness Day” on the McClure Stage in Bruin Plaza to showcase Hmong history, art, and culture to the UCLA community. The Hmong people are an ethnic group from the regions of China, Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand. When asked what the ultimate…
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My mother later told me that in Pakistan, there’s a superstition that the less milk you put in your tea—the darker your tea is—the darker your skin will become.
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