by Guest Contributor Luke Lee

Let’s say you’re a woman of color climbing the ladder in one of the most male-dominated “boy’s clubs” in America. You’re the assistant to the top spot and when at a meeting with others in your business, a man singles you out asking who you are, why you’re there, what you […]

by Latoya Peterson

An interesting article made its way to me last week. “Coded Prejudice is a Cloaked Dagger,” from the Chicago Tribune:
Tomeika Broussard thought it was so absurd when she overheard her supervisor refer to her as a “reggin” that she just laughed. Then she realized it was the n-word spelled backward.
The only African-American in […]

by Latoya Peterson

So after Joanna posted her article on Gimme Sugar I decided to check out some of the episodes On Demand. Since On Demand was horrifically slow with adding new episodes, I found the rest on Logo’s site.
After watching the first few episodes, I was charmed. I generally liked the show, the […]

I remember when, the week before I left for college, my parents sat me down to tell me about the facts of life. The lecture wasn’t about sex — my father, a physician, was prone to oversharing the grosser aspects of human anatomy, so I was horrifyingly aware of the mechanical aspects of reproduction as […]

by Guest Contributor HighJive, originally published at MultiCultClassics
To commemorate Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, it seems appropriate to note the debate ignited by Chicago Sun-Times advertising columnist Lewis Lazare. The writer recently criticized a new commercial for Quiznos starring an Asian American woman working at a Laundromat. Created by Cliff Freeman Advertising, it can be […]

by Guest Contributor Nadra Kareem

“I hope he dates a white girl.”
A few years ago a visitor to actor John Cho’s page on the Internet Movie Database left this comment. The commenter, presumably an Asian male, explained that he made the statement because it would serve Asian women right if a desirable Asian male ended up […]

by Latoya Peterson
Sandra Oh, George Takei, Kal Penn, and Yul Kwon all take a few minutes to explain what it means to be Asian American in the following YouTube Video produced by the Asia society.

My favorite segment was from George Takei, who said:
“I grew up behind the barbed wire fences of US Internment camps. What […]

by Latoya Peterson

I am really starting to become a fan of these Live Journal carnivals. The PoC in SciFi Carnival 9 is out and here are my two favorite pieces.
Untrue-Accounts provides a ridiculously great analysis of race, sex, and gender in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. And it comes with a video!
1. The story of […]

by Guest Contributor Jen, originally published on Disgrasian
A new Asian chick has joined the cast of Gossip Girl. And she walks and talks! And her character has a name!
We’re movin’ on up, to the East Side, to a deluxe apartment in the sky-y-y!
Only problem is, “Nelly Yuki” (as played by Yin Chang) is […]

Okay, y’all - who saw the movie over the weekend?
If you did not see the movie because you found the first H & K too sexist, I am here right now to tell you that you made the right choice because the second movie is even worse. (Though, you do get to see three different […]

by Latoya Peterson
Paging through the new issue of GQ, I happened to notice an article on the upcoming Harold and Kumar movie. I browsed the article - which is a critique of the film that gives away way too much of the plot - before pausing at this paragraph:
The lowly stoner comedy has always […]

by Latoya Peterson
Resist Racism just came out with a great piece on the impact of campus hate speech:
In the ten-year period from 1996-2006, 21 Cornell students committed suicide. Thirteen of them (approximately 62 percent) were of Asian descent. Additionally, there have been suicides at Cornell by non-students.
In at least four cases, people killed themselves by […]

by Guest Contributor Alex Alvarez, originally published at Guanabee
Associate Editor Alex Alvarez, befuddled to find that her boobs and hips, or lack thereof, seem to fall in and out fashion like leggings and stirrup pants and poppers, takes a look at the American women’s magazine industry in an attempt to decipher just how, exactly, they […]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
NPR did an interesting story on Long Duk Dong recently - the Asian exchange student in the movie Sixteen Candles - a racist caricature of a character who has become a thorn in the side of pretty much every Asian-American male born after 1970. (Hat tip to Angry Asian Man.)
They also interview […]

by guest contributor Brigitte, originally published at Make Fetch Happen
Do you remember when Vogue India hit the stands and Australian model Gemma Ward was front and center flanked by two presumably Indian models in what I like to call “the coveted Beyonce spot?” All I could do was laugh at how predictable that move was […]