"Having so much Korean talent or people influenced by Korean media on the crew made it possible. Because we could say to one of our animators, 'Do you remember that one expression the girl makes in the K-drama "Weightlifting Fairy"? Can you find us 50 GIFs of other moments like that from other K-dramas?' And the next day, he’d be like, 'Here’s the full range of eye twitches and mouth shapes.'"

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/21/movies/kpop-demon-hunters-directors.html

Not ashamed to say I got my ears pierced again (after a decade of not bothering, and piercings closing) so that I can get these soy sauce and rice earrings

https://yellowowlworkshop.com/products/rice-soy-sauce-earrings

I feel like such a bad Trekkie for never having heard this story before!
#StarTrek #AAPI

Beam Me Up, Sulu | Official Trailer
https://youtube.com/watch?v=drDPaOj6uwI

Asian American massage students say the California Massage Therapy Council (CAMTC) blocks certification with biased English tests. Advocates call out opaque rules that harm immigrant workers. #AAPI #CAMTC #CivilRights
https://thevoicesf.org/how-the-california-massage-therapy-council-fails-asian-americans/

"Enjoy Tony winner David Henry Hwang’s comedy starring Daniel Dae Kim as an Asian American playwright who protests “yellowface” casting in the musical “Miss Saigon” only to mistakenly cast a white actor as the Asian lead in his own play.

Streaming until: 6/30/2025 @ 11:59 PM EDT"

https://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/yellow-face-about/16696/

We're excited to be featured in the NBCU Academy article, "Welcome to the Expansive Universe of Asian American and Pacific Islander Media"!

Our Managing Editor, Rhysea Agrawal, explains our unique approach to science journalism:
https://nbcuacademy.com/asian-american-news-pacific-islander/

May is #AsianAmericanNativeHawaiianPacificIslanderHeritageMonth, and we're celebrating with a few of our favorite books written and illustrated by talented #AAPI authors and illustrators.

You can help us give more books like these to kids who need them by donating a book from our #AANHPIHeritageMonth WISHLIST!

Learn more about our mission at #ChildrensBookProject. Check out the link in bio to Give Books, Get Books, Volunteer, and Donate!

#aapi #photography

https://www.npr.org/sections/pictureshow/2023/05/30/1178239430/arin-yoon-photography-connects-her-past-and-future?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Shutterbug @shutterbug-mia

#aapi #photography

https://niemanstoryboard.org/2016/08/30/the-pulitzer-at-100-taro-yamasaki-and-life-inside-jackson-state-prison/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Shutterbug @shutterbug-mia

Want to uplift Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) voices from abroad? The Democrats Abroad AAPI Caucus is looking for volunteers! Bring your passion, skills, and ideas—let’s build power together. #AAPI #DemocratsAbroad #VolunteerWithUs

Not lost on me that as birthright citizenship is being challenged today, it was because of Wong Kim Ark that we have it at all.

It’s AANHPI month, which we are celebrating at work. I complain these terms are arbitrary (and they are) but also they think we are all the same anyway.

While I can’t do a ton about national legislation, I can do a lot in my community. As an East Asian person, making space for South, Southeast and other Asians and NH (Native Hawaiian) and PI (Pacific Islander) people is absolutely what I want to do. I’m helping to organize some activities at work that spotlight other cultures in our alphabet soup.

Also RIP Henry Fuhrmann, whose exhortation to drop the hyphen in Asian-American vastly expanded and included people who can consider themselves Asian American. Undocumented people. People who don’t yet have citizenship, or won’t, or can’t.

#AsianPacificIslander #Asian #AmericanHeritage #9066 #Indigenous #IndigenousRights #JapaneseInternment #ConcentrationCamp #DueProcess #Bigotry #Racism #AsianExclusionAct #AAPI

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/asian-american-racism-covid

Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month Profile: Kristy Pham https://aflcio.org/2025/5/7/asian-american-and-pacific-islander-heritage-month-profile-kristy-pham #AAPI #1u

Really good piece from NYT for Asian American and Pacific Islanders Heritage Month. All great comedians you should check out! #AAPI
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/05/02/arts/asian-american-comedians.html

The town next to Monterey is doing a festival called Good Ol’ Days. I wonder if those good old days include the days when they burned down the Chinese villages to take over the fishing business; or the good old days when white people dressed up as Chinese people.. that only ended.. in 2022

Can you tell I don’t love this town at all haha

https://www.montereycountynow.com/blogs/news_blog/breaking-the-feast-of-lanterns-board-votes-to-end-the-pacific-grove-tradition-forever/article_9438180e-912e-11ec-be17-1bd1fb211bba.html

recently i did an icebreaker at a meeting, "say, hi my name is X and i like rice / pasta / bread'

today i'm at an AAPI book club and changed it to 'what's your favorite rice dish? and if you don't like rice, you can pick something else'

nobody picked something else

"South Korea on Wednesday admitted for the first time that in its rush to send children to American and European homes decades ago, its adoption agencies committed widespread malpractices, including falsifying documents​, to make them more adoptable​."

: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/world/asia/south-korea-adoption-fraud.html?unlocked_article_code=1.704.DINp.eL93TFUuYoW-&smid=url-share

We're trying out a WhatsApp channel that directly delivers nonpartisan reporting of Asian Americans, science, and society to hard-to-reach audiences!

Sign up through this link to get daily texts at no cost; your parents (and your aunties and uncles) will thank you.

https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029Vb3RJS4AInPu1KHYBJ37

In an essay, Ann Nguyen writes about how she found healing in her decades-long relationship with her Vietnamese mom and food.

"The thinner I was, the closer we became, bonded by our body dysmorphia and desire to hit the forever-moving bullseye of the abstract concept of “the perfect body” imagined by a society that knew it did not truly exist."

https://www.thexylom.com/post/perspective-forgiving-my-almond-mom