"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

#AsianAmericanandPacificIslanderHeritageMonth #AANHPI #startrek #sulu #elaanoftoryius #ilia #demorasulu #NurseOgawa #AdmiralNakamura #KeikoOBrien #buckbokai #HarryKim #andrewkim #hoshisato #ensignRutherford #BoYeonKim #PhillipaGeorgiou #GenRhys #graytal #CommodoreOh #dahj #LaanNoonienSingh #startrek58 @trekcore

Thanks for tuning in! Drop by #SatMat (on) for more #AANHPIHeritageMonth fun w/ “The Witches of Eastwick” (1987) (info https://mastodon.social/@analgesicsleep/114537908070136397) and #ILikeToWatcher (on) later that night when I’ll have music by #AANHPI female/female aligned artists (info https://mastodon.social/@analgesicsleep/11453790930748568)… Join me next week when we celebrate #MemorialDay on #MusComEnt with “Hollywood Canteen” (1944) and #RetroView closes out #AANHPIHeritageMonth with music by Armenian-American icon Cher! Enjoy the rest of your week

ONE HOUR until #RetroView celebrates #AANHPI talent in classical music, musical theater and opera (link & info https://mastodon.social/@analgesicsleep/114537905527163022)

Thanks for tuning in… Join me tomorrow for Classical music, Musical Theater and Opera performances by #AANHPI artists on #RetroView (info https://mastodon.social/@analgesicsleep/114537905527163022) Enjoy the rest of your Wednesday night, #MusComEnt friends

Talking about my Angel Island novel on MPR (Minnesota Public Radio)

https://www.mprnews.org/episode/2025/05/20/st-paul-author-highlights-historic-poetry-from-detained-chinese-immigrants-in-new-book

Thanks @MatthewTitus88 for that wonderful, mellow Saturday night music.. See y’all later, #ILikeToWatch friends, enjoy the rest of your night/weekend

PS- drop by #SymSat in a few minutes for some music in honor of #AANHPIHeritageMonth (link & info https://mastodon.social/@analgesicsleep/114495334543349283)

PPS- I’m hosting #ILikeToWatch Next week with music by female/female aligned #AANHPI artists

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.

#OnThisDay in 1989, “The United States and the Philippines: In Our Image” premiered on public television, exploring the historical relationship between the U.S. and its former colony, the #Philippines.

The United States and the Philippines Interviews Collection features raw footage interviews recorded between 1985 and 1988, including this conversation with Corazon "Cory" Aquino, the first female president of the Philippines.

Explore the collection: https://americanarchive.org/special_collections/us-and-philippines-collection

AANHPI Heritage Month is here — and so is #GiveInMay! Join us in honoring the strength, stories, and struggles of AANHPI communities by supporting orgs on the frontlines.

We're fundraising to support our summer newsroom intern, in partnership with the CUNY Newmark J-Corps. Give today:

https://www.giveinmay.org/donate/The-Xylom

“Anti-Asian online hate in US saw 'alarming surge' after election — report

January 2025 marked the highest number of online anti-Asian slurs by month since monitoring began in August 2022, the report says, with a total of 87,945 slurs.”

Link to article: https://www.trtworld.com/discrimination/anti-asian-online-hate-in-us-saw-alarming-surge-after-election-report-18267361

Link to report: https://stopaapihate.org/2025/02/20/post-election-surge-in-hate/

Corazon "Cory" Aquino, the first female president of the #Philippines, emerged as a prominent figure during the 1986 #PeoplePowerRevolution, which ended Ferdinand Marcos’ 20-year dictatorship and restored democracy in the country.

Explore her insights and more in this interview, one of over 90 raw interviews housed in the new The United States and the Philippines Interviews Collection: https://americanarchive.org/special_collections/us-and-philippines-collection

This month, the American Archive of Public Broadcasting commemorates Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month by honoring the rich history, culture, and perspectives of these communities.

Explore the AAPB’s extensive collection of programs dedicated to #AANHPI history and perspectives and celebrate the diversity of voices in our archive: https://blog.americanarchive.org/2024/05/10/the-aapb-celebrates-asian-american-native-hawaiian-and-pacific-islander-heritage-month/

I’m proud to be celebrating the rich and diverse history of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders this #AANHPIHeritageMonth! I hope you’ll join me in combating discrimination against this incredible community, as well as shining a light on what makes us special. What a time to be #AANHPI and proud!

I'm reading @intelwire's post about anti-Chinese American dystopian fiction:

"Almond-Eyed* *came and went* *with little fanfare, but it was the vanguard of what would be a wildly popular genre…at least 23 works of fiction…between 1878 and 1918…The language and themes of these early works would reverberate through the genre for well over 100 years, haunting us today"

https://jmberger.substack.com/p/the-song-remains-the-same-part-1