February 2012
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Top Five Japanese American Women Civil Rights... →
In California, January 30 was officially Fred Korematsu Day. It is important to honor and remember Korematsu but I believe it is also a time to look back at some of the other Japanese Americans (JAs) who also fought for the rights of not just JAs but all Americans.
Unfortunately, Japanese American women don’t get enough credit for their contributions to the civil rights movement. I want to change...
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'Soul Train' creator Don Cornelius dead in... →
January 2012
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Chinese in America - Join the Wall →
paach:
Hi Everyone,
Happy Chinese New Year! At long last, we are launching a Beta of the ”Chinese in America - We are Family” Virtual Wall at www.JoinTheWall.org !!!
See your profile amongst thousands of other Chinese in America and search for others who have submitted their profile by last names, Chinese Provinces and U.S. Cites that might be the same as your family.
The USA Pavilion...
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Do you read Vanity Fair Magazine?
Is it still relevant? Are their Hollywood lists relevant? They’re usually wrong about promoting and predicting future success of these young stars anyway. Go and check out their past lists.
Do you take VF seriously? Because I don’t. And I have been a semi regular reader since its reincarnation in the 80’s. I enjoy it for what is is, the same way I love my bowl of oatmeal...
Vanity Fair treats its readers like Oliver Twist
The orphelin undernourished readers are fed the same cold porridge year after year. Just because it’s served in a crystal bowl doesn’t make the stale slop more appetizing.
BTW Rooney Mara looks more Morticia Adams than “Lulu” Louise Brooks (sorry Sarah Fincher).
Here’s an unintentionally ironic quote from their post: “ The Art Deco set was designed to evoke...
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History of Lines: Barbed Wire Borders for San... →
The reason for this barbed wire in the streets of San Francisco was simple—it was a quarantine of Chinese people who were thought to be infested with bubonic plague. The reasons for this were simple and racist—given that the Chinese were seen from (at the very least) the 1860’s to be an “inferior” and “degraded”1 race, living in close quarters and in fair...
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The Angry Therapist: Not Your Average Shrink... →
Hmm, I need and don’t need this therapist. I want someone culturally competent—so I don’t have to recommend Amy Tan, Maxine Hong Kingston or Amy Chua books to therapists to get where I’m coming from—someone who doesn’t need explaining about my cultural background. And yet if my therapist looked like this dude, I’d have serious crush issues.
Wonder...
It's making me...sad
It’s triggering my depression, it being the shortage of ADHD meds. Adderall, Ritalin, Dexedrine (just the immediate release pills) are all in short supply here.
How am I gonna manage the rest of 2012? This is one problem I did not anticipate.
Just hanging on one week at a time, hoping that there will be enough pills for my scrip at each visit. Costlier brand meds are hard to come by...
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George Takei's pursuit of 'infinite diversity'... →
Now, Takei is able to wed his two passions, musical theater and raising awareness, in one project: “Allegiance.” The musical, coming to the Old Globe Theater in San Diego this year, chronicles the experience of a Japanese-American family in an internment camp. It is what Takei refers to as the culmination of his life’s work. It isn’t an Asian-American story, Takei reinforced, but an American...
Tumblr Halp!
Where in Flushing (Queens) can I eat good dim sum??
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@24KGoldNYC
I checked two chain pharmacies and two independent ones in town. Nothing available in the doses my family needs. My scrip was only for 7 days, too. Not even gonna bother with the teledrug program (mail order) of my insurance carrier.
What galls me is that I had to inform both my therapist and the chain pharmacist techs why there is a shortage. They weren’t informed of the news.
Thank...
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Anyone else suffering from the Adderall shortage?
Is the DEA or big pharma to blame? Demand exceeds supply.
I’m suppose to go back to immediate release Adderall, but nobody has it in stock. Now I gotta start from square one. Again.
Switching ADHD meds is not like trading Tylenol for Advil. Each brain and body respond differently. It’s especially tricky if you have Bipolar I or II. Kong-kong’s monthly supply of Focalin XR...
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Oh happy day!
dustoffvarnya:
It seems to be budgetary issues. Whatever the reason this Hollywood phoenix turkey should not be resuscitated. The story doesn’t make sense to me: post apocalyptic Manhattan—as opposed to Tokyo—with a bunch of White leads with Japanese names. Okay, they threw in Ken Watanabe as the Colonel, but so what.
For more background on the racebending f*ckery...
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How to Raise Strong and Confident Asian Pacific... →
So here are some of my best suggestions and practical techniques for raising strong and confident Asian Pacific American daughters and instilling APA Girl Power. They include rewriting stories, critiquing characters, finding role models, developing alternative beauty standards, learning to speak up, and preparing for sexism from both sides.
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Mark Memmott at NPR: Gordon Hirabayashi Has Died;... →
With that, Hirabayashi became one of just a handful of Japanese-Americans who defied the government’s move to put more than 100,000 of them in detention camps following the attack on Pearl Harbor. For his refusal, he was imprisoned more than a year.
It took four decades for Hirabayashi to be vindicated, with a U.S. Supreme Court decision that the internment policy “had been based on political...
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gordon hirabayashi, 1918-2012 [Angry Asian Man] →
Received word through social media that civil rights hero Gordon Hirabayashi, best known for being one of the few people to openly defy the government’s unconstitutional internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, has died. He was 93. Hirabayashi was arrested, convicted and imprisoned, and eventually appealed his case to the Supreme Court (Hirabayashi vs. United States) —...
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RHOB(itc)H(es)
greengrey:
Oh! New real housewives tonight!
My thoughts:
Never trust a therapist who’s willing to air your sessions on TV—especially if he’s wearing leather loafers but no socks.
What was that garter on Brandi’s thigh for, to hold her flask or stash of Roofies?
If those snotty bishes can’t handle a puddle jumper then they should stay on the main island.
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“To me mood is the equivalent of weather. Weather is real. That’s the important...”
– Stephen Fry talking about his experiences with bipolar disorder. (via roisinblah)
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Top 10 Best Dressed Asian Americans of 2011... →
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The Best in Asia and Asian America 2011 →
asiansnotstudying:
Jeff Yang’s last “Tao Jones” column of 2011 picks the best, the worst and the most memorable events, individuals and phenomena of the year that was.
Personal Notes:
As much as I enjoy “My Mom is a FOB” I despise that they list “ERTards” on their blog roll. It’s a snotty site that is more than snarky, it’s downright condescending and...
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Has Asian American Studies Failed? →
asiansnotstudying:
Timothy Yu, Professor of English and Asian American studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, follows up on his provocative, much-discussed post on the challenges facing the field of Asian American studies.
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Watchlezgethistorical:
From Colorlines:
by Channing Kennedy Thursday, November 10 2011
If you’re reading this, you’re probably interested in the history of racebending and POC representation in cinema — and that means you need to get familiar with Anna May Wong, the black-and-white-era film star who made a career out of smashing barriers in Hollywood. A new documentary by filmmaker Yunah...
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December 2011
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What's In A Name?
“Jeniffer” “Jennifer Bernadette Wang” ”Jen Wang”, of Disgrasian and now on XOJane, ponders the importance of (not) having a middle name.
I too am a Jennifer with NMN. For years I wanted Elizabeth. My immigrant parents tacked Jennifer in front of my Chinese (legal) name and created an unofficial middle name.
Speaking of name weirdness, when my Mom started...
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If Sherlock Holmes Can Come Back, Why Not Charlie... →
My husband-in-the-next-life, Jeff Yang, argues that a new Charlie Chan movie should be made. I agree.
So imagine a reinvented Charlie Chan — younger, leaner, rawer and primed for action; a Hawaiian Chinese cop shaped by the tradition and philosophy of his ancestors, but firmly embedded in American culture. Someone with humble beginnings (and the humility to remember them), who’s risen to his...
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