How Hollywood Is Complicit in the Violence Against Asians in America
Reducing Asians, women and sex workers to flat punchlines isn't just degrading — it's dangerous {read}
Atlanta Police Officer Who Claimed Shooter Had a “Bad Day” Made Anti-Asian Posts on Social Media
This disgusting sentence drips with disdain for the women who were brutally murdered. Their murders constitute a “bad day.” It drips with racism: the lives of the Asian women murdered…
5 Tips For Talking to Your Definitely Not Racist Family on Thanksgiving
November 17, 2017 | Michael Conti If the thought of Thanksgiving dinner conversation is already giving you the sweats – we got you. It’s hard enough trying to remember what not to talk…
Dollhouses of St. Louis – 99% Invisible
driving around The Ville today, the neighborhood looks very different. Some buildings are simply rundown or abandoned, but others are missing large chunks entirely. Walls have disappeared. The bricks are…
Meet the new hotshots of American film-making
Rees nods, “It’s like my dad would say: ‘You have to work twice as hard to get half as far.’ As a woman, you are presumed incompetent until proven otherwise.…
Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange, Clem Albers & Francis Stewart’s Censored Photographs of a WWII Japanese Internment Camp
In places where atrocities or widespread human rights violations occur, we sometimes hear ordinary citizens later claim they didn’t know what was going on. In the case of the internment…
The Culture Inside
Is there a part of ourselves that we don’t acknowledge, that we don’t even have access to and that might make us ashamed if we encountered it? We begin with…
‘Hellboy’ Whitewashing: Ed Skrein Steps Down From Playing Japanese-American Comic Character
The new “Hellboy” film was the latest studio production to cast a Caucasian actor in a role originally written with Asian heritage after “Deadpool” star Ed Skrein was announced last week…
Kara Walker, ‘Tired of Standing Up,’ Promises Art, Not Answers
Kara Walker with her art installation at the Domino Sugar Factory in Brooklyn in 2014.Credit...Abe Frajndlich for The New York Times By Blake Gopnik Aug. 16, 2017 “I am tired,…
How The White Establishment Waged A ‘War’ On Chinese Restaurants In The U.S.
In most American cities these days, it seems like there's a Chinese restaurant on every other street corner. But in the late 1800s, that ubiquity was exactly what certain white…