Asian Americans Vote Democratic
In just shy over twenty years, Asian Americans have switched colors. In 1992, George H. W. Bush received 55% of the Asian American vote; in 2012, Barack Obama received 73%, the highest percentage...
View Article“Resound”
If you saw us, you wouldn’t know it but Dad couldn’t speak Mandarin And Mom never watched Taiwanese TV. We ate braised pork for dinner, but as a family, attended More bat mitsvahs than Chinese New...
View ArticleECAASU Reflection
In February, I attended ECAASU 2015, an Asian-American advocacy conference hosted in Boston, along with several other AAA members. The conference involved workshops, speakers and performances in order...
View ArticleCrossroads Reflection
On March 7, 2015, students from various high schools across New York City attended Crossroads, AAA’s annual high school conference. Through interactive discussions, guided workshops, and group...
View ArticleFractured Solidarity: The Barriers in Uniting the Asian American Voice
Looking at statistics, Asians have extremely low voter turnout rates compared to Whites and Blacks, and are beaten out marginally by the Latin@ community each election. Since there are only four main...
View ArticleMixing Identites
Success and laziness. Water and electronics. Taylor Swift and relationships. None of these pairs mix, and apparently being gay and Asian, at least in my family, do not either. I grew up in what I like...
View ArticleAsians, Fashion, Style
6:00 A.M. alarm went off, and it was time to get ready for school. By 7:00 A.M., I was always downstairs in a cute outfit that I had picked out the night before, hair curled, makeup on point, and in a...
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Are you an international student looking for a phone plan?
Stay in touch with family and friends with Verizon’s International Student Plan. Join AAA members for a group trip to the Verizon store on 2818 Broadway; just bring your international passport and...
View ArticleRemembering Grace Lee Boggs
At Barnard College’s Hewitt Dining Hall, a mural is painted with a quote from Grace Lee Boggs BC ’35. “Activism can be about the journey rather than the arrival.” It’s had a profound impact on what I...
View ArticleAchieving Diversity Fairly in New York’s Specialized High Schools
This Friday, October 23, tens of thousands of New York’s middle schoolers sat through a test to decide whether or not they would be admitted into the city’s top specialized high schools. The exam,...
View ArticleMy Culture is Not a Costume
With the recent Halloween celebrations I attended this year and with my increasing knowledge of social justice issues, I noticed the ways in which cultural appropriation has been covertly manifested in...
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