The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich wrote that “well-behaved women seldom make history.” About sixty years before Ulrich penned her words, on October 23, 1915, women marched en masse in New York...
politics
Portia Chan
Chinese Americans are targeted by the administration. Again.
“A Thousand Talents: China’s Campaign to Infiltrate and Exploit US Academia,” was the original name of the US Border Security and Immigration Senate Subcommittee hearing held at the beginning of Immigrant Heritage Month...
J Maraan
Shin Ji-ye’s run for Seoul mayor paves way for feminist politics
It may take a politician’s whole life to prepare to run for mayor of a city with 10 million people, but for a 28-year-old woman named Shin Ji-ye from the South Korean Green Party, it took merely 6 months and a 4-member...
Yewon Kang
Patsy Takemoto Mink: the First Asian-American US Congresswoman
It is 2018. We might think we have come far in our struggles against sexism, racism, and oppression, but we still have a very long way to go. Just seventy years ago, in 1948, a graduate of the University of Hawaii...
April Editors
Elections to Watch in Asia 2018 (+ one in America)
[agg-ad id=”14519″ align=”left”][agg-ad id=”15486″ align=”center”] Like every year, 2018 is going to be full of elections and political theatre, but it’s easy to...
Our eyes (and hopes) on 3 Asian-American female senators in Washington
While those Americans who fall into the popular vote results of the November 2016 U.S. elections may be disappointed by what the new year brought to the White House and the next four years in the United States of...
Tara Footner
Today we can imagine an Asian-American woman president
I remember the day I learned that I could never be the president of the United States. As a young girl (even to this day) I was always strong-willed and ambitious. Oftentimes, I would sit at the kitchen island while my...