Image: The Ravenous Couple.
I am coveting the cute Vietnamese food-themed t-shirts and prints that Hong and Kim of The Ravenous Couple are selling for charity. Proceeds from the porkalicious shirt above go to Senhoa, an organization helping survivors of human trafficking in Cambodia.
If you buy the shirt Hong and Kim are wearing here, they will donate to the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation:
Photo: The Ravenous Couple.
Visit their store here.
Via: MOONROOT: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS. Thanks for bringing this to my attention, Miyuki!
DEADLINE: April 29, 2012
MOONROOT is looking for submissions to y/our second issue! And, out of a desire to build this radical and loving community, we are asking YOU to submit your heart, your stories, your love and your aches.
WHO WE ARE:
MOONROOT is an ongoing collective project about race, gender, and bodies. It is an evolving experiment in deep, loving community-building among self-identified womyn, trans*, and/or genderqueer persons of Asian descent (whether East Asian, South Asian, Pacific Islander, Southeast Asian, Central Asian, West Asian, hapa or mixed) living in diaspora, across borders and geographies. We believe that because our multiple and intersecting identities often render us invisible and misrepresented (even within our own communities), reclaiming our voices is a radical act of love and recognition.
We gravitated to each other to produce the first issue of MOONROOT in Fall 2011, which made its debut at the Baltimore Zine Bazaar. MOONROOT is a physical object, but most importantly, it is a community. We are building a visible, beautiful, and organic family. Continue reading
Sorry for the lack of new posts lately! Between studying for finals, writing proposals, and showing prospective graduate students around Los Angeles, I haven’t had time to sit and think about anything non-academic for a while. But spring break is coming up soon, so there will be tons of exciting new stuff then!
Say NO to the Wal-Mart in Los Angeles’ Chinatown
Retail giant Wal-Mart is planning to open a grocery store below a retirement home in Los Angeles’ Chinatown. I’ve written before on how this would negatively affect the local small businesses that are at the heart of the Chinatown community. Local activists met on Tuesday to discuss how to organize against Wal-Mart, and a social media campaign has come out of this:
Campaign Tumblr: http://nowalmartinchinatown.tumblr.com/
Twitter: @NoWalMartinCT
Vietnam-Korea connections
Viet Thanh Nguyen for Diacritics: Korea’s Viet Nam, Viet Nam’s Korea
The stretch of coast from Hue to Hoi An, the Vietnamese Riviera, seems to be entirely dominated by Korean-built resorts and golf courses, with even more under construction, at least when I drove the length of Highway 1 in the summer of 2010. Ironically, this is the same area where Korean troops fought and earned a reputation among the Vietnamese as a very scary bunch. Both Le Ly Hayslip, in When Heaven and Earth Changed Places, and Truong Nhu Tang, in A Vietcong Memoir, note that the Vietnamese were more terrified of the Koreans than they were of the Americans.
New York Times: For Some in Vietnam, Prosperity Is a South Korean Son-in-Law
The couple, like many others in the Vietnamese countryside, had prospered in recent years, thanks to daughters who, driven by dreams of better lives for themselves and Confucian filial piety for their parents, had emigrated to marry South Korean men. The money they and others earned in South Korea, wired regularly to small towns in Vietnam like Quang Yen, often manifested itself in telltale new homes, though the wealth paled in comparison with the Lexus S.U.V.’s favored by businessmen in Hanoi, about 100 miles west of here.
I wrote about Vietnamese brides in Korea earlier this year.
