Casey Cha
A Thai grocery bag on a fashion runway, and other cultural products stolen by...
The luxury brand Balenciaga stole a cultural product, a two-dollar rainbow-colored Thai-origin sampheng bag, and sold it for over couple thousand each. This stirred Thai netizens to make a joke out of the interesting situation via hashtags to poke fun at how their beloved potato-sack-errand-tote turned high fashion. Deservedly, hashtag actions thwarted a...
The only punk rock confessional you need to read
Nimrods is part-poetry, part-memoir escaping the confines of identity and tradition. In a fast-paced, globetrotting fashion, shy topics such as patriarchy, imperialism, and masculinity are brought to the forefront. The author of this punk rock memoir is Kawika Guillermo, or formally Christopher B. Patterson. He...
Vignettes of desire and demise in the Japanese psychedelic underground
Izumi Suzuki, this bad girl, lives life as an underground rock and roll groupie member in this semi-autobiographical novel, Set My Heart on Fire....
Fae Myenne Ng’s memoir is for unspoken yet exposed Asian American history
Fae Myenne Ng is an American writer, professor, and an early pioneer in launching Asian fiction to the American canon. In the early years...
The future is Miraepa. Contemporary Korean poetry breaking traditions
Kim Kyung Ju is a multitalented creative who is a poet, dramatist, and performance artist based in Seoul, South Korea. Before becoming a well-known...
Aliens, witchcraft, and horror in cyberpunk femme-dominant sci-fi stories
Izumi Suzuki was born in Itō, Shizuoka in 1949, a time when Japan experienced a wave of counterculture and antiestablishment. Coinciding with the movement...
Not your typical octopus friendship story
Gina Chung is a Korean American writer from New Jersey who lives in New York City. She holds an M.F.A. in creative writing from...
Anthony Veasna So’s posthumous short story debut represents Cambodian Americans in California’s Central Valley
Afterparties is a collection of nine short stories that offer exclusive depth and unheard perspectives on Cambodian American milieu in the Central Valley of...
Asians in a love and hate relationship
Leslie Bow is a fourth-generation Chinese American. Racist Love: Asian Abstraction and the Pleasures of Fantasy is her recent work. In Racist Love, Leslie...
Gen-Z Korean American time traveler stuck in 90’s LA rom-com
Maureen Goo is an author of several acclaimed books for young adults, including I Believe in A Thing Called Love and Somewhere Only We...
