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A Former Yellow Power Ranger on the Last Airbender

Mon, 07/05/2010 - 23:13

When I was ten years old, I was perpetually the Yellow Power Ranger.

This was slightly maddening to me, as a very young, small Asian boy, to be continually cast in the playground rendition of Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers, as a very pretty, slim Asian girl.  But considering the number of racial options my peers and I had been given, it was understandable how quickly I had been typecast.


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Asian Activism Banned By Major Corporations

Tue, 03/16/2010 - 00:11

On March 14th, 2010, YouTube/Google banned my spoken poetry piece "To Seung-Hui Cho" because it violated their guidelines for inciting violence and hate speech. I will not be quiet, I will stand up and fight. But today, another major corporation shuts down another Asian American voice.

 


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