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 […]

by Racialicious Special Correspondent Latoya Peterson
East West

Billing itself as the complete Asian-American lifestyle magazine, East West runs the gamut from business advice to romance. East West (formerly East West Woman) is also the only magazine that regularly features Desi contributors as well as Desi cover girls.
In terms of articles, East West has a wide […]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
It was just Thursday when we wondered why fashion designers and editors don’t seem to be able to use models of color without exoticizing/exploiting their race or culture. And last summer, we discussed Vogue’s obsession with romanticizing colonized Africa and Asia.
Folks at Hermes must have been reading closely because they managed to […]

by guest contributor Jenn Fang, originally published at Reappropriate
Last week, Colorado University — Boulder found itself at the center of a firestorm from the Asian American community after the campus newspaper, Campus Press published an opinion piece by an editor, Max Karson, entitled “If It’s War the Asians Want…”. In the piece, Karson engages in […]

by Racialicious special correspondent Wendi Muse
A few weeks ago, while walking along the sidewalks of Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, a well-known strip for the burgeoning fashionista or the credit card terrorist, I stopped dead in my tracks. Though normally oblivious to any movement around me on the streets near my office, especially as most of […]

by guest contributor Jenn Fang, originally published at Reappropriate
On Friday night I just happened to turn CNN on, and heard something I really though I would never have heard before. Anderson Cooper was telling his viewers to stick around for a segment on (gasp!) “The Asian American Vote”. We exist!
I dutifully waited about a half-hour […]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
Sick of the race war hysteria in mainstream media? Yeah me too.
Check out this 3-way IM conversation I had with Lauren from Stereohyped and Maegan from VivirLatino, breaking down race and the presidential election, and that pesky question of just why Asian-Americans and Latinos voted for Clinton, not Obama.
Here’s a tidbit, but […]

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by Carmen Van Kerckhove
Wow, my inbox was flooded last night with emails decrying this SalesGenie.com ad that aired during the Superbowl last night.
What do you all think of the ad?

by guest contributor Jennifer Fang, originally published at Reappropriate
While in Las Vegas, this weekend, I had the opportunity to interview actress Kelly Hu. This is that interview. Many thanks to Cate Park, of Asian Pacific Americans for Progress, for setting up this interview, and of course to Hu herself for agreeing to do it.
Whether portraying […]

by Racialicious special correspondent Wendi Muse
I am by no means an expert on porn, nor do I pretend to be. Yet considering the volume of hits on xtube.com or youporn.com that could be traced back to my IP address, one would assume so. If not that, one would at least be able to mentally file […]