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LGBT/Pride Week

June is LGBT pride month. We have a variety of queer AAPI's, friends, families and allies posting about their experiences. Thanks to Be DeGuzman, one of APAP's 2009 Unsung Heroes, for coordinating this special week of posts.

To help with our upcoming hate crimes/Vincent Chin week (June 21) or Pacific Islander week (Aug), please let us know. If you have a topic you or your agency would like to coordinate, email us.

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Questions about the Murder of Annie Le at Yale

By now everyone has heard about the horrifying and tragic murder of Annie Le, a graduate student at Yale who was found murdered in a basement wall of her office building on what would have been her wedding day.


FAIL: Marie Claire's Asian Trophy Wives Article is bad writing that reinforces stereotypes

If you have not read it yet then I would read it only to let yourself get really angry and enraged: http://bit.ly/GX4h4. Marie Claire ran the following article, “The New Trophy Wives: Asian Women,” and I’m not introducing any new concepts or critiques that other people have not brought up.