We are opening submissions for a new zine centered on how food relates to the Asian/Asian-American experience.
Our definition of “food” is expansive and can include concepts such as “consumption”, “digestion”, etc. From the material conception of food to abstract notion of consuming culture and identities, you can spin it any way you like. For example, you can write about how capitalism has seeped into everyday life and feeds on exploitation.
Your writing can be prose, poetry, play, and any other format. If you prefer visual representations, feel free!
SUBMISSION METHOD: email your file to [email protected]. Use “Food Zine Submission - Your Name” as the subject title. Tell us a little about yourself if you can. Since RadAsians is currently based in the U.S. South, We give preference to submissions from Asian folks in the South.
The deadline for submissions is December 12th, 2015.
Though RadAsians would love to publish everyone’s piece, we may not have the capacity to do so. But good news: We plan to have a digital edition of the zine again and may be able to include more than the physical copy. :)
Checklist before you submit:
Fit on a standard 8.5 x 11 (A4) piece of paper?
Adjusted for resolution?
Left ½ inch. margin on all sides?
Avoided important content in the middle? (will be binded in the middle)
All in one single file? (even if your piece is two or more pages, please fit them into one A4 file)
Accepted formats: .jpg, .png, .psd; if your piece is just text and you want us to format it for you, feel free to send us a word document. (Please let us know if you can’t convert to these formats!)
RadAsians Team
P.S. - As always, our first zine is available online.
Help us spread the word! Our call for submissions is also on Facebook and our website
Critics assert that modern students are losing their powers of critical thinking, but what we are actually seeing is that power in action: students are using their critical faculties to uncover structures of power in their own academic and social environments. They are clearly recognising that discourse and ideas can be powerful, and that is precisely why they struggle to reshape the discursive terrain, to change the conversation in ways that further their political and moral commitments. Humanities professors should be proud.
This is what’s so odd about the language of coddling and hypersensitivity. If students are really so fragile, if they’re really hiding from scary ideas in a thoughtless cocoon of political correctness, why are they so often to be found out on the campus, demonstrating, protesting, petitioning and organising? That’s not what hiding looks like. It’s not what coddling looks like. In fact, the people showing greatest signs of coddling are those professors for whom the classroom has been a safe space for way too long. Now they’re apparently afraid that their “small or accidental slights”, as Lukianoff and Haidt put it, are going to get pounced on. They’d much rather students “question their own emotional reactions” than question the assumptions coming from the front of the classroom.
Tom Cutterham, “Today’s students are anything but coddled,” Times Higher Education
We are opening submissions for a new zine centered on how food relates to the Asian/Asian-American experience.
Our definition of “food” is expansive and can include concepts such as “consumption”, “digestion”, etc. From the material conception of food to abstract notion of consuming culture and identities, you can spin it any way you like. For example, you can write about how capitalism has seeped into everyday life and feeds on exploitation.
Your writing can be prose, poetry, play, and any other format. If you prefer visual representations, feel free!
SUBMISSION METHOD: email your file to [email protected]. Use “Food Zine Submission - Your Name” as the subject title. Tell us a little about yourself if you can. Since RadAsians is currently based in the U.S. South, We give preference to submissions from Asian folks in the South.
The deadline for submissions is December 12th, 2015.
Though RadAsians would love to publish everyone’s piece, we may not have the capacity to do so. But good news: We plan to have a digital edition of the zine again and may be able to include more than the physical copy. :)
Checklist before you submit:
Fit on a standard 8.5 x 11 (A4) piece of paper?
Adjusted for resolution?
Left ½ inch. margin on all sides?
Avoided important content in the middle? (will be binded in the middle)
All in one single file? (even if your piece is two or more pages, please fit them into one A4 file)
Accepted formats: .jpg, .png, .psd; if your piece is just text and you want us to format it for you, feel free to send us a word document. (Please let us know if you can’t convert to these formats!)
RadAsians Team
P.S. - As always, our first zine is available online.
Help us spread the word! Our call for submissions is also on Facebook and our website
We are opening submissions for a new zine centered on how food relates to the Asian/Asian-American experience.
Our definition of “food” is expansive and can include concepts such as “consumption”, “digestion”, etc. From the material conception of food to abstract notion of consuming culture and identities, you can spin it any way you like. For example, you can write about how capitalism has seeped into everyday life and feeds on exploitation.
Your writing can be prose, poetry, play, and any other format. If you prefer visual representations, feel free!
SUBMISSION METHOD: email your file to [email protected]. Use "Food Zine Submission - Your Name" as the subject title. Tell us a little about yourself if you can. Since RadAsians is currently based in the U.S. South, We give preference to submissions from Asian folks in the South.
The deadline for submissions is December 12th, 2015.
Though RadAsians would love to publish everyone's piece, we may not have the capacity to do so. But good news: We plan to have a digital edition of the zine again and may be able to include more than the physical copy. :)
Checklist before you submit:
Fit on a standard 8.5 x 11 (A4) piece of paper?
Adjusted for resolution?
Left 1/2 inch. margin on all sides?
Avoided important content in the middle? (will be binded in the middle)
All in one single file? (even if your piece is two or more pages, please fit them into one A4 file)
Accepted formats: .jpg, .png, .psd; if your piece is just text and you want us to format it for you, feel free to send us a word document. (Please let us know if you can't convert to these formats!)
RadAsians Team
P.S. - As always, our first zine is available online.
Help us spread the word! Our call for submissions is also on Facebook and our website
it’s happening!
**CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS to MIXD zine #2: Healing! **
it’s been a long time comin’ and i’m really excited for this.
shout outs to Elyshia Mcdonald Andi Hernandi Lemon Fwee for hashing out ideas together / for the real talks / being part of the collective approach to making the second issue of MIXD happen! + everyone who gave feedback on the 1st issue.
**plz share widely**
deadline for submissions is Dec. 15th!
questions? pm me directly or shoot a message to [email protected] as well(!)
more info on the project: mixdzine.tumblr.com
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full text:
! CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS !
MIXD #2: HEALING
MIXD zine is a text & art-based space by & for mixed-race people of colour - born out of convos & dialogues surrounding questions / understandings of mixed-race experience(s), embodiment(s), histories & resistance.
“Healing” is the theme of issue #2!
[ some prompts / ideas:]
- what has / could healing & care look like on an (inter)personal, intergenerational, and ‘community’ basis?
- challenging the notion of healing as possible, as mandatory, as having a time limit, as equating to ‘forgive & forget (violence)’.
- exploring & grounding struggle / resistance as (inherent to) collective healing processes - within contexts of white supremacy & colonialism, & against systems / institutions of domination: e.g. prisons, the police, the anti-immigration system & the settler colonial state.
This Trans Teen’s Parents Tried To “Fix” Him By Sending Him To India
“My parents thought there was something wrong with me because I wasn’t living my life the way they wanted. I didn’t fit the mold,” Bhatt explained. “They told me that I would eventually get an arranged marriage to a man.”
On September 10, the Indian queer resource group Nazariya helped Bhatt escape his family. The activists also provided Bhatt with legal counsel and shelter.
That’s when things got complicated. Bhatt’s parents filed a complaint with the local police. Bhatt and supporters said his father, who he says is relatively wealthy and well-connected, used his power and influence to harass the activists.
This year at sfzinefest we talked to Artists of Color about making zines and kicking a**. Here’s what they have to say about diversity, expression and finding a voice.
Hello all,
My name is Wo Chan. I am a 23-year-old poet, performer, and activist. I came to the US in 1996 as a young child, arriving with my family with full legal permanent residence. As a child my status followed that of my parents who immigrated to the U.S. legally.
I am writing today because my mother, father, and I are facing unjust deportation charges due to the criminal actions of former Homeland Security supervisor Robert Schofield.
In 2002, my father and mother applied for naturalization through the Department of Homeland Security. My parents believed they were lawfully applying for citizenship at the time, when in fact, Schofield was profiting off of them. He spoke Chinese and was the acting assistant director for examinations from 1998-2004. In 2006, he was convicted of bribery and various related crimes in connection with his issuance of certificates of naturalization to nearly 200 applicants, all of whom are in the Asian American community.
Democracy Now! has learned the longtime Detroit activist and philosopher Grace Lee Boggs died this morning at the age of 100. “She left this life as she lived it: surrounded by books, politics, people and ideas,” said her friends and caretakers Shay Howell and Alice Jennings.
Grace Lee Boggs was involved with the civil rights, Black Power, labor, environmental justice, and feminist movements over the past seven decades. She was born to Chinese immigrant parents in 1915. In 1992, she co-founded the Detroit Summer youth program to rebuild and renew her city.
Grace Lee Boggs was a regular guest on Democracy Now! for many years.
Nearly one-third of adolescent AAPI men and women are sexually active by the age of 18, yet AAPIs have notoriously low rates of contraceptive use. Only 58% of AAPI women, for example, report that they are using some form of contraception, compared to 65% of White women surveyed in the same study. Of those using contraception, AAPI women are far less likely than White women to employ highly effective forms of birth control, such as IUDs or the Pill. Instead, AAPI women are three times as likely to report relying on a condom, which is one of the least effective forms of contraception. Consequently, AAPI women have the second highest rate of abortion usage among all women: 35% of AAPI pregnancies end in abortion.
AAPI women are nearly twice as likely as White women to use withdrawal as their primary method of birth control, which is neither effective for contraception nor protective from the transmission of STDs. Compounding this issue, AAPIs also have significantly lower rates of screening for sexually transmitted diseases. Consequently, STDs remain a major health concern for AAPIs. National trends showing an overall decrease in HIV infections, for example, have not held true for the AAPI community: among AAPI women, in fact, the rate of new HIV infections is increasing.
Cancer is the leading cause of death for AAPIs, and of AAPI female cancer patients, breast cancer is the second most prevalent form of cancer. And although the overall mortality rate from breast cancer is relatively low for AAPI women compared to women of other races, this mortality rate varies by AAPI ethnicity and is particularly dire for PI women. Cervical cancer – which is detectible by a routine Pap smear – is the leading cause of death for Vietnamese American women; this group has the highest incidence of cervical cancer for women of any race or ethnicity.
Planned Parenthood stands at the frontlines of these major public health concerns for the AAPI community. It would not be hyperbole to say that defunding Planned Parenthood might cost the health—and indeed, the lives—of countless AAPI women, and thousands of other men and women in this country.
Why I Stand With Planned Parenthood as an Asian American Woman
Police in Texas have arrested a 14-year-old boy for building a clock. Ahmed Mohamed, who lives in Irving and has a keen interest in robotics and engineering, put the device together on Sunday...
Government officials say they will dismiss Sherry Chen, a hydrologist at the National Weather Service. The Justice Department last year dropped a case against her.
Government officials say they intend to fire a Chinese-American hydrologist who was prosecuted but eventually cleared of espionage-related charges.
The hydrologist, Sherry Chen, an employee of the National Weather Service, received a letter over Labor Day weekend notifying her that the government planned to fire her for many of the same reasons it originally prosecuted her.
Last year, federal agents investigated Mrs. Chen as a possible Chinese spy.They found no evidence of espionage, but still arrested her on lesser charges that could have led to 25 years in prison and $1 million in fines. The Justice Department ultimately dropped the case.
Since then, she has been on paid administrative leave waiting to learn whether the government will allow her to return to her job at the Weather Service’s office in Wilmington, Ohio.
Countering online hacking and espionage threats has become a priority for the Obama administration, and a cornerstone of a strategy to counter those threats has been more aggressive investigations and prosecutions.
But the charges brought against Mrs. Chen, in addition to separate charges against a Chinese-American professor at Temple University, which were dropped Friday, has renewed concerns that innocent Chinese-Americans are becoming targets for prosecution.
Earlier this year, 22 members of Congress asked Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch to determine whether ethnicity was a factor in the espionage charges against Mrs. Chen, who was born in China but is a naturalized citizen of the United States.
Representative Ted W. Lieu, a Democrat of California, said in an interview on Tuesday that the decision to fire Mrs. Chen was “outrageous” and a “saving face issue” for the agency.
Mr. Lieu said he planned to ask the Justice Department for an independent investigation into whether the initial charges against Mrs. Chen were warranted, and whether, in light of the charges that were also filed against the Temple professor and then dropped, there is a pattern of Chinese-Americans being arrested and indicted on charges based on their ethnicity.
“Their allegations against her do not rise to the level of a termination,” Mr. Lieu said, adding that Mrs. Chen had no previous disciplinary record and had in fact received top reviews and awards for her government service. “If she was not a Chinese-American, she would not have been arrested, indicted and would not now be in the process of being fired.”
Last December, federal agents arrested Mrs. Chen and accused her of illegally accessing a federal dam database on behalf of foreign interests in China. However, the investigation found that Mrs. Chen had only shared information from publicly available websites with a former college classmate, now China’s vice water minister, who asked her how reservoir projects are funded in the United States.
In her search to answer his question, Mrs. Chen asked supervisors for relevant data and at one point searched the National Inventory of Dams’ password-protected website, using a password provided by a colleague. Mrs. Chen never found any information relevant to her classmate’s query, but did download information that was relevant to her work forecasting flooding along the Ohio River, which she never used or shared.
Her use of a colleague’s password to download data from a government website became a major component of the government’s espionage case against her, as well as her dismissal.
In a letter repeating many of the earlier charges, Laura K. Furgione, the deputy director of the National Weather Service, wrote that she proposed to fire Mrs. Chen for “conduct demonstrating untrustworthiness,” “misrepresentation,” “misuse of a federal government database” and “lack of candor.” Ms. Furgione did not respond to emailed requests for interviews.
Her letter, which was dated Sept. 4, the Friday before Labor Day, gave Mrs. Chen 15 calendar days to reply.
One of the reasons Ms. Furgione cited for Mrs. Chen’s dismissal was new. She wrote that the government had concluded Mrs. Chen “demonstrated untrustworthiness” because she had “secretly provided internal N.W.S. data to a member of the general public.”
Ms. Furgione referred to a former employee of the National Weather Service, Thomas Adams, Mrs. Chen’s former boss at the agency, who had emailed Mrs. Chen, asking her to send him data he had left behind.
However, Mrs. Chen’s supervisor at the National Weather Service told federal agents that the data Mrs. Chen had provided Mr. Adams was not “considered proprietary data.”
The other reasons for the dismissal repeated earlier claims regarding use of the co-worker’s password, which the co-worker had made available to everyone in the office, and even emailed to Mrs. Chen in this case.
On Tuesday, Mrs. Chen said she was devastated to learn the government did not intend to reinstate her.
“Why are they doing this to me?” she said. “They are going to take everything away from me.”
Mrs. Chen’s lawyer, Peter Zeidenberg, a partner at the firm Arent Fox, said he planned to help Mrs. Chen respond to Ms. Furgione’s letter. He said if her gravest offense was breaking policy, it is telling that the colleague who provided the password is not being disciplined.
“He gave her the password. He was the supervisor in charge of these passwords,” Mr. Zeidenberg said. “He didn’t know this was a grave offense. So why did they expect her to know?”
“How is this not a clear case of racial discrimination?” Mr. Zeidenberg asked.
Mr. Zeidenberg said Mrs. Chen had not yet decided how to respond to her dismissal. On Tuesday, Mrs. Chen planned to appear in front of Arent Fox’s offices in Washington to solicit donations for her legal defense.
“I have no choice but to get legal representation to respond to this trauma once again,” Mrs. Chen said.
More than half of Asian Americans with diabetes don't know they have the disease. And even though they may be less overweight than the typical American, they are actually at greater risk.
What’s even more surprising: Asian Americans have the highest proportion of undiagnosed diabetes among all ethnic and racial groups, at 51 percent, according to researchers from the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
And something else to keep in mind: Asian Americans may be less overweight, generally, than the rest of the U.S. population, but they may actually be at greater risk for developing diabetes.
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The latest analysis was published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Other studies have found that many Asian Americans have higher blood pressure and more fat than other groups. “That may indicate a propensity to put on fat in the middle part of the body, even though their BMI looks okay,” Cowie said.
Asian Americans who are at risk may not realize it, and as a result, “they don’t go to the doctor, and the doctor doesn’t do a blood test to look for diabetes,” she said.
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What surprised researchers was their finding that about 21 percent of Asian Americans have diabetes, a prevalence comparable to that in blacks and Hispanics.
“Then to also find that about 50 percent of diabetes is undiagnosed in Asian Americans — it was those two statistics that are scary,” Cowie said.
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