AZ AANHPI is screening Minari (2021) Tuesday, May 13 at 6 PM for AANHPI Heritage Month. The film follows a South Korean family navigating economic hardship and belonging in rural Arkansas in the 1980s. Six Academy Award nominations including Best Picture. Community discussion follows. https://www.mobilize.us/mobilize/event/948462/ #AANHPI #AANHPIHeritageMonth #AsianAmericans #FilmScreening

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'The multimedia textbook, accessed through an online portal, brings more than half a century of Asian American and Pacific Islander studies to the classroom and to anyone interested in deepening their understanding of America.'

https://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/aapi-multimedia-textbook-asian-american-pacific-islander-ucla

UCLA: ‘Our history is your history’: Multimedia textbook brings Asian American and Pacific Islander experiences to the forefront. “Written by more than 100 leading scholars, journalists, organizers and community historians, and featuring an extensive archive of videos, photographs, audio clips, poems and interviews, plus ready-to-use lesson plans for students in high school and college, it […]

In the Birthright Citizenship Hearing, a Story of Asians Fighting for Rights

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/us/politics/birthright-citizenship-asian-immigrants.html

Making the Dancing Lions for Lunar New York Celebrations

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/15/arts/design/lion-dancing-chinese-lunar-new-years-san-francisco.html

Stanford University: Newly digitized papers shed light on WWII internment. “Stanford University Libraries have digitized the Kazuyuki Takahashi papers, an ‘extraordinary collection’ of letters and photographs that expand the historical record of wartime incarceration in the United States.”

Democrats push for commission investigating anti-LGBTQ+ military policies

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/commission-investigate-anti-lgbtq-policies

#Movies #AAPI

Rewatched #RogersAndHammerstein's #TheFlowerDrumSong (1961) again yesterday.

Many #AsianAmericans, like me, have a love/hate relationship with this movie because of all of the #Asian & #Chinese stereotypes that it portrays & because most of the actors in the film weren't even Chinese.

The film is also pretty misogynistic & gender limiting too which is consistent with the times.

That said, I remember when how excited my mother & the Chinese community in #SFChinatown were when the movie was released because it was the 1st time that the Chinese were portrayed in the film with anything close to our reality & because it was the 1st & only film (until #TheJoyLuckClub (1993) in which the cast was almost entirely #Asian. . . .

It's nonetheless an important film to watch in terms of understanding how Asians are under represented in American media.

The Wiki synopsis of the film is pretty good & worth reading if you have any interest in the film & Asian American media.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flower_Drum_Song_(film)

These 5 Key Voting Groups Could Decide the Mayor’s Race

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/nyregion/nyc-mayoral-election-voting-blocs.html