This December my article on Asian American women artists in the San Francisco Bay Area appeared in The Jakarta Post Weekender Magazine. I really enjoyed interviewing the artists and getting to see their extraordinary work. I could only scratch the surface in this article, but I hope it gives everyone a taste of the exciting [...]
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Asian American Women Artists: A Place of Her Own in San Francisco
Posted in Art, Asian American Art, Asian Pacific American, Interviews, pictures, Weekender Articles, tagged aawaa, Asian American Women Artists, asian american women artists association, cynthia tom, indonesian american artists, Indonesian women, irene wibawa, nining muir, San Francisco artists, shari arai deboer, vivian truong on December 22, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Being Profiled
Posted in Asian American Literature, Asian Pacific American, essays, Weekender Articles, Writing Process, tagged Arizona SB 1070, Asian American, hapa, immigration, Jakarta Post Weekender Magazine, Racial Profiling, the jakarta post, Weekender Magazine, Writing Process on July 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
When Arizona passed law SB 1070 this April, I was immediately filled with such deep emotions that I could barely put them into words: shock, shame, horror, fear. I had spent my adolescence in a rural community in America where I was “profiled” on a daily basis. The stares, the taunts, the name-calling came back [...]
