Jul 29, 2021
We’re playing an episode from an exciting new podcast by our friends at APIENC, an organization that builds transgender, non-binary, and queer power for Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the Bay Area (you might’ve heard their director, Sammie, on one of our previous episodes).
The new podcast is called...
Jul 15, 2021
We're sharing the story “When
Your Country Doesn’t Trust You” from the podcast
WorldAffairs.
In
the past year, reports of anti-Asian hate crimes have spiked across
the country. A lot of this is attributed to anti-Asian rhetoric
about the pandemic. But the hard truth is that whenever tensions
escalate between the...
Jul 2, 2021
Julianne Sato-Parker first heard the phrase, “Shikata ga nai” while watching a video series of interviews with Japanese Americans and Japanese nationals who were incarcerated by the U.S government after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
The Japanese phrase translates to, “It cannot be helped.” It reminded Julianne of...