Translation: A quarter of gringos openly admit their #racism to a pollster. (As usual, poll, caveats, you know the drill).
> A quarter of U.S. adults see Chinese Americans as a "threat": poll https://www.axios.com/2025/05/01/asian-american-poll-stereotypes-chinese-threat
"Eugene exhibit tells the story of Chinese Oregonians"
https://www.opb.org/article/2025/03/06/eugene-exhibit-tells-the-story-of-chinese-oregonians/
"The Museum of Natural and Cultural History at the University of Oregon has a new exhibit highlighting the 150-year history of Chinese Oregonians …
'Roots and Resilience — Chinese American Heritage in Oregon' has everything: from artifacts like a toothbrush that belonged to a Chinese railroad worker, to photographs that documented Chinese Oregonian life in the late 19th century"
"Although I lack most of the outward tells of Southernness, which is to say I speak unaccented English and have a face that is neither white nor black but yellow, that field places me in the South."
Thomas Dai for Electric Literature: https://longreads.com/2025/01/30/being-an-asian-southerner-means-being-an-anomaly-squared/
Second Amendment by Yue Chen.
A striking interpretation of the USA #SecondAmendment by award-winning #ChineseAmerican designer and #ArtDirector at City University of New York, Yue Chen.
Amendment II: A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
' Making this crazy thing took years of work, ingredients from around the world, and who knows how many restaurateurs. Those little packets are strangely, psychotically perfect, designed to appeal to our base instincts: creamy and fatty and crispy and sweet and sour and savory, all at once. No modern food conglomerate would ever come up with something as deranged as crab rangoon, and if it was new today, nobody would buy it... '
Have you read Carmilla, The First Vampire? No not the novel, but Amy Chu's retelling of it through a #ChineseAmerican lens! Prefer the less goth kind of pretty? My Androgynous Boyfriend also just arrived and it's a genderforking food time!
"Peter’s parents, who do not speak English fluently, struggled to keep up with those conversations, or to take the kind of action that might have given them an outlet for their grief."
For The New York Times, Amy Qin tells the heartbreaking story of one #ChineseAmerican family's grief and isolation, six years after the #Parkland shooting: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/11/us/parkland-school-shooting-chinese-family.html
Caught in the crossfire: Fears of #ChineseAmerican scientists...
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2216248120
"Our study reveals the widespread fear among scientists of Chinese descent in the United States arising from conducting routine #research and academic activities. If this fear is not alleviated, there are significant risks of underutilization of scientific talent as well as losing scientific talent to #China and other countries. "
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
Ten people were killed and 10 others injured when a gunman opened fire at a dance studio where he met his wife decades earlier.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/5d3v7n/monterey-park-shooter-lunar-new-year
#MontereyShooting #MassShooting #HuuCanTran #LunarNewYear #California #chineseamerican #News
Gonna post a better #introduction now that I've been on here a bit.
Hi! I'm Kai, I like cooking and eating good food. #ChineseAmerican born in New York, now #ChineseCanadian living in #Vancouver, where I founded a #CommunityGarden on a hospital rooftop & #volunteer cook at a shelter for people getting out of homelessness. I've spent my career in software, but always active in politics, street/online activism, #bipoc #AntiRacism. I like old movies, libraries, jazz, Scottie dogs.
See ya round!
