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Taiwanese American Heritage Week links

Taiwanese American Heritage Week at UCLA

As the banner I spotted today reminded me, this week is Taiwanese American Heritage Week, part of May’s national Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. How might one celebrate Taiwanese American Heritage Week on the Internets? Here are some ideas:

Any suggestions? Add them to the comments!

Seeking respondents for study of LGBT individuals of Chinese descent in the Los Angeles region

API Equality – Los Angeles, the USC Annenberg School of Communication and the Liberty Hill Foundation are recruiting respondents for a study on LGBT people of Chinese descent living in or near Los Angeles:

Want to help change and strengthen the perception of LGBT in Asian/ Pacific Islander families and in the community? Want to help create a valuable resource for LGBT youth and help further Asian/ Pacific Islander LGBT research?

API Equality-LA and the USC Annenberg School of Communication in partnership with the Liberty Hill Foundation are currently conducting an important study on API LGBT in order to assist in early education, cultural outreach and family acceptance… and your participation is needed!!

We’re currently interviewing LGBT Chinese/ Chinese-Americans. And it’s easy—our team of researchers will conduct an interview with you in just one 30-60 minute session. While your responses will be recorded, your name will remain confidential.

Where: Location by request

When: Interviews to be conducted throughout February and March at your convenience

Email apiequalityproject@gmail.com to schedule your appointment or if you have any questions.

Black-Asian solidarity in the wake of today’s racist events

After ESPN called Jeremy Lin a “chink” in an article headline and KPOP songwriter Jenny Hyun argued for genocide against black people, race scholar Dr. Sarah Jackson tweeted about things that blacks and Asians in the US share:

On the real though there is a lot of love and history between Black folks and Asian folks no matter what these individual a-holes do/say.

So I will now tweet some facts in the name of Afro-Asian love. #spreadlovenothate

Africa, the Middle East, and Asia had advanced trade and education networks among each other before they were ever “discovered.”

In the U.S. racist Asian characters were a common part of the minstrel shows (that popularized blackface) of the 1900s. #solidarity

The Black Press spoke out vocally against the interment of Japanese Americans during WWII. #solidarity

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