We’re an Asian American identity magazine dedicated to highlighting creative work by/about/for Asian Americans, subverting the myth of the model minority, and ultimately, “reclaiming our stories.”
Read More Introducing…Model Minorityby Anuhya Kotta Substance is a piece that expresses the constant struggle between maintaining your Asian identity yet adjusting to the standards of the Western world. On one hand, you want to blend in, and adjust as quickly as possible, but on the other, you don’t want to abandon what you were born to. What […]
Read More SubstanceThing with the black tentacles
Coiffed into a knob
At the base of its white
Neck, powdered like a corpse.
by Nadia Naeem
Read More Urban FlowerIn a 1981 speech, Ronald Reagan lauded Asian Americans as “exemplars of hope and inspiration” due to their allegedly natural intelligence and work ethic. This model minority conceptualization marks a sharp detour from the Yellow Peril panic that once stigmatized Asians as unassimilable, threatening Others.
Read More The Model Minority in the Liberal Stateby Becca Lee
Read More Stitches
