WELLESLEY ASIAN ALLIANCE

for the discussion of issues in the Asian American community, past and contemporary Facebook:http://tinyurl.com/bfknzwg

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Interested in understanding Asian-America through a psychological lens?! Or perhaps passionate about mental health issues as they manifest in communities of color?! Register for:

PSYC/AMST 222: Asian American Psychology

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WELLESLEY FRIENDS! Still looking around for a last class?! Interested in AA Activism, Ethnic Studies, or the consequences of U.S. Imperialism?! Register for

AMST 238: Forgotten/Remembered--The Korean War and Asian/America

taught by *new hire in the American Studies Dept, Terry Park!*

(who also served as a former Executive Director of Hyphen magazine!!!)

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Desert Exile: The Uprooting of a Japanese American Family

After the attack on Pearl Harbor, everything changed for Yoshiko Uchida. Desert Exile is her autobiographical account of life before and during World War II. The book does more than relate the day-to-day experience of living in stalls at the Tanforan Racetrack, the assembly center just south of San Francisco, and in the Topaz, Utah, internment camp. It tells the story of the courage and strength displayed by those who were interned.

Yoshiko Uchida (1921-92) was born in Berkeley, California, and was in her senior year at the University of California, Berkeley, when Japanese Americans on the West Coast were rounded up and interned. Traise Yamamoto is associate professor of English at the University of California, Riverside. She is the author of Masking Selves, Making Subjects: Japanese American Women, Identity, and the Body.

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Wellesley Asian Alliance presents: #ThisAAPILife

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Wellesley Asian Alliance presents: #ThisAAPILife

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Wellesley Asian Alliance presents: #ThisAAPILife

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Wellesley Asian Alliance presents: #ThisAAPILife

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Wellesley Asian Alliance presents: #ThisAAPILife

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Wellesley Asian Alliance presents: #ThisAAPILife

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Wellesley Asian Alliance presents: #ThisAAPILife

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Wellesley Asian Alliance presents: #ThisAAPILife

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The revolution won’t be a political party or a website or an activist coalition or a hashtag. It’ll be the ways we learn to be together, online and off, that affirms our humanity.

Cayden Mak, “We Are All Cyborgs”

(I’m not going to pretend I didn’t write this, because I forgot what I wrote and now that it’s up I am pleased about what I wrote. I want us to stay critical but stay optimistic about organizing online.)

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The opportunities my parents and I had were only possible because of the long fight for civil rights and political recognition led by black Americans.

Dr. Janelle Wong, Director of Asian American Studies at the University of Maryland.

Read her op-ed addressing Asian Americans who oppose affirmative action. - Alice

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"I’m Asian American and…" is the first documentary series on American television focused on the diverse Asian American diaspora, featuring unique and sometimes controversial individuals who may or may not fit the stereotype of the United States’ fastest growing minority group.

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Asian Americans: everywhere, actually. - CM

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To the Man Who Shouted “I Like Pork Fried Rice” at Me on the Street by Franny Choi : Poetry Magazine

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you want to eat me

out. right. what does it taste like

you want to eat me right out

of these jeans & into something

a little cheaper. more digestible.

more bite-sized. more thank you

come: i am greasy

for you. i slick my hair with msg

every morning. i’m bad for you.

got some red-light district between

your teeth. what does it

taste like: a takeout box

between my legs.

plastic bag lady. flimsy white fork

to snap in half. dispose of me.

taste like dried squid. lips puffy

with salt. lips brimming

with foreign so call me

pork. curly-tailed obscenity

been playing in the mud. dirty meat.

worms in your stomach. give you

a fever. dead meat. butchered girl

chopped up & cradled

in styrofoam. you candid cannibal.

you want me bite-sized

no eyes clogging your throat.

but i’ve been watching

from the slaughterhouse. ever since

you named me edible. tossed in

a cookie at the end. lucky man.

go & take what’s yours.

name yourself archaeologist     but

listen carefully

to the squelches in

your teeth & hear my sow squeal

scream murder between

molars. watch salt awaken

writhe, synapse.

watch me kick

back to life. watch me tentacles

& teeth. watch me

resurrected electric.

what does it

                                    taste like: revenge

squirming alive in your mouth

strangling you quiet

from the inside out.

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MacArthur Fellow & all around amazing person Ai-jen Poo talks to NBC about why organizing domestic workers is such a genius idea.