Leilani Chu
‘Into View: Bernice Bing’ celebrates the Chinese American’s courageous search for her identity as...
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Bernice “Bingo” Bing (1936-1998), a Chinese American artist and influential figure in the Bay Area art and beat scene of the 1960s, is celebrated in an alluring retrospective exhibition at San Francisco’s Asian Art...
In Nuclear Family, novelist Joseph Han boldly discusses American imperialism and role in the...
Joseph Han, who was born in Korea and raised in Hawai’i, tells a captivating story of intricate family dynamics, magical realism, and political satire in his debut novel, Nuclear Family. The story follows a...
Kim Bo-Young’s collection of short stories in “I’m Waiting for You” show us philosophical...
I'm Waiting for You: And Other Stories by Kim Bo-Young, award-winning South Korean author, is a translated collection of short stories that share underlying themes of existentialism, love and hope, space and time, and...
SAAFF film review: “Cane Fire” is an essential watch to understand the cyclic exploitation...
The Hawaiian Island of Kauai’i. To most people, Kauai’i is known as “the Garden Isle” and the backdrop to more than a hundred Hollywood feature films – from the famous Elvis Presley scenes in...
Sen. Mazie Hirono’s memoir Heart of Fire shows how she speaks the truth and...
“My mother had no voice at all when she came to this country. That’s why I want to serve – to be a voice for people like her.”
A quick Google search for Senator Mazie...
The life story of Patsy Takemoto Mink and her fight for gender equality is...
Fall Down Seven Times, Stand Up Eight: Patsy Takemoto Mink and the Fight for Title IX, by Jen Bryant and illustrated by Toshiki Nakamura, is a vivid children’s picture book that tells the inspiring...
“The Color of Air” uses the Mauna Loa volcanic explosion in 1935 to create...
The Color of Air by Gail Tsukiyama is a beautifully written novel that reveals the importance of community and how a shared history will always tie people together, no matter what stands in their...
Author/artist Chanel Miller’s story continues beyond the pages of her memoir to an exhibit...
Known to the public as Emily Doe in the 2015 Brock Turner sexual assault case, she was confined to a vessel in which her identity was only ever tied to her perpetrator by society...
Cathy Song tells the story of three generations of an Asian American family with...
All the Love in the World by award-winning poet, Cathy Song, is a window into three generations of an Asian American family — from Korean immigrants navigating life in rural Hawai’i, to an Asian...
E.J. Koh’s memoir spans across oceans, languages, generations of mothers and daughters and emotions
In her unique memoir, The Magical Language of Others, E.J. Koh brings readers through a turmoil of emotions as she interlaces original handwritten letters from her mother with her own recounting of important moments...
