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All I have to say is this is going to be good.
Damn good.
Reading my local aapress.com I came across this article featuring therapists of Korean descent and while this section did catch my eye:
“I understand what it may be like to be invisible, stereotyped and misunderstood as an Asian woman, mother and professional,” Dr. Kim said. “I strongly believe that clients need the opportunity to share their narrative accounts, towards healing. It is my goal to offer a safe place where clients, from diverse backgrounds are able heal and move toward a more promising future.”I have to admit that I really just got drawn in by all those colors - which I'm sure means something btw, because from what I understand talking with people I know who are psychologists, blue is never just blue, and a peach on a unicorn is always something more than just a peach on a unicorn.
If you're a fan of Roopashree Jeevaji as well as CSI, than this pairing is for you.
On Wednesday, November 16, 2011, Roopashree "Roopa" Jeevaji appears in the hit CBS drama "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation".
In "Crime After Crime," Jeevaji's character portrays the receptionist of a hospice facility, where everyone is quite fond of the suspect (who is dying of cancer).
"CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" is a fast-paced drama about a team of forensic investigators trained to solve crimes by examining the evidence. They are on the case 24/7, scouring the scene, collecting the irrefutable evidence and finding the missing pieces that will solve the mystery.
Tune in to the episode "Crime After Crime" on Wednesday, November 16, 2011. The show airs on CBS, at 10:00 p.m. / 9:0 p.m. central time.
Sounds like a good thing to me.
In partnership with Facing Race, CAAR is pleased to announce that it is hosting a FREE anti-racism training for volunteers and supporters. This is a rare opportunity to shake internal racism and oppression in the Hmong American community. The training will happen Saturday, Dec. 3 from 3-5:30 pm. Location will be announced for those who are pre-registered. Limited spots available so register today! Refreshments will be provided during the training.
REQUIREMENTS: Hmong American, any age, must be willing to facilitate 2-4 conversation circles after the training.
More info:
The New Conversations®: Uncovering the 5 Myths That Support Racism dialogue explores five of the broader cultural myths prevalent in our society that contribute to difficulty in gaining traction around dismantling racism. Based on the work of Dr Peggy McIntosh, this interactive workshop explores some of the myths that help to preserve white privilege; meritocracy, manifest destiny, white racelessness, monoculture, and white moral elevation. The dialogue starts with the premise that racism is systemic/institutional. Whole group and partner exercises are utilized, and participants are asked to consider specific actions they can take to end racism. Special attention will be paid to how these myths affect the Hmong experience in the United States.
If you were hot on the trail of the Miss World 2011 pageant you probably already know this - but if you weren't (because you were out drinking for a straight week trying to drown out the sadness you were feeling from losing Gnome Lingerie And Snack Packs #1 The Collector's Edition) - now you know:
Miss Philippines, Gwendoline Ruais was so very very close (and yes, some would say so very very close to an old school misogynistic and barbaric practice - I'm 50/50 myself).
Helping others really does get you awards.
Boat People SOS (BPSOS), a national Vietnamese American community organization, has been awarded the sixth Asia Democracy and Human Rights Award (ADHRA), said Legislative Speaker Wang Jin-pyng, the TFD's chairman. The annual award was established in 2006 to honor individuals or groups in Asia that have made outstanding contributions to the promotion of democracy and human rights. BPSOS has been active in providing assistance to Vietnamese refugees in Vietnam, at sea, and in refugee camps or to new emigrants just arriving in the U.S., Wang said. About one in 10 Vietnamese Americans have been helped by the organization, which was founded in 1980, with its reach extending to other countries, including Laos, Myanmar and Cambodia, Wang added.
Maybe you've heard. Maybe you haven't.
It's a first.
Thank you SF.
Interim Mayor Ed Lee won a four-year term by a solid margin, a vote tally Wednesday showed, making him the first Chinese American elected to lead a city where a fourth of the voters are of Chinese descent.
She's everywhere.
Fine Line Music Cafe
November 11 2011 at 8:00 PM
Venue Info:
Fine Line Music Cafe
318 First Avenue
Minneapolis, MN
Check out all her tour dates.
Sweet.
Asian American supergroup Magnetic North & Taiyo Na will release their new album Home:Word [Deluxe Edition] on Tuesday, November 29, 2011 to all online US retailers. This release will correlate with the release of their album Home:Word [Japan Edition] on Wednesday, November 23, 2011 to all major retailers in Japan.
Home:Word [Deluxe Edition] is a rerelease of their 2010 US album Home:Word. Remastered, resequenced, repackaged with an exclusive lyric booklet and 6 new, additional tracks, the album was inspired by their recent single and album deal with Japanese hip-hop label Goon Trax (Media Factory). The title song "Home:Word" was featured on one of Goon Trax's popular compilation albums In Ya Mellow Tone 6, released March 2011. Within a week the song shot up to #2 on Japan's iTunes Hip-Hop charts and became a song of solace for many who were afflicted by the ongoing Earthquake, Tsunami and Nuclear crisis. Further moved by this course of events, one of their new songs on Home:Word [Deluxe Edition] is "Fukushima." Released as a music video on September 11, 2011, "Fukushima" is a song dedicated to the victims of the tragedy in Japan as well as others.
Home:Word [Deluxe Edition] is a culmination of 3 years of creative partnership between artists Magnetic North and Taiyo Na. Without devaluing the concert tours, music videos or newfound international success, Magnetic North & Taiyo are proudest of their Holla Benefit Concert Series (2009's Home for the Holla'Days, 2010's Home for the Holla'Days II and 2011's Holla For Japan) which have collectively raised over $30,000 in charity. Collaborating with other like-minded musicians to put on concerts to aid urgent causes have brought their passions for music and social responsibility together in the most fulfilling of ways.
The new songs on Home:Word [Deluxe Edition] feature many of the other artists who have shared the stage with Magnetic North & Taiyo Na at their Holla Benefit Concerts such as singer/songwriters Sam Kang, Cynthia Lin, Scooter Oyama and Ruth Cho, producers Jaron Lum and Chucky Kim and saxophonist Jonathan Lee.
Additional updates and information can be found at http://www.magnetichiphop.com
Photography by An Rong Xu [The Three-Half Collective]
Photo Post by Allen Wong [The Three-Half Collective]
Video Edited by Derek Kan
HOME:WORD [Deluxe Edition] Track Listing
1 WE BELONG [ft. Chris Iijima]
2 IT'LL WORK OUT [ft. Sidney Outlaw]
3 CHRIS SPEAKS
4 SUMMERTIME [ft. Conchita Campos]
5 LA LA LA [ft. Ruth Cho]
6 NEW LOVE [ft. Heather Park]
7 I'M HERE
8 COLD [ft. Sam Kang]
9 FUKUSHIMA
10 IN MY CORNER
11 POSTCARDS
12 CHUCK SPEAKS
13 HOME:WORD [ft. Sam Kang]
+ I GOT MY [ft. Jin]
+ HOME:WORD (Acro Jazz Laboratories Remix) [ft. Sam Kang]
HOME:WORD [Deluxe Edition] will be available on iTunes, Amazon, and http://www.magnetichiphop.com on 11/29/11.
HOME:WORD [Japan Edition], by Goon Trax is available for preorder now.
SAMPLER MP3 is available for free on the bandcamp page!
If you're in the neighborhood and want some Lee Herrick + Open Mic.
The Loft
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Featuring Lee Herrick
and open mic
7:00 p.m., Free
Event co-sponsored by AdopSource, AK Connection, and Adoptees Have Answers
From Lac Su to K-Girl and now on to you.
A racist message from a resident left on Bee Kevin Xiong's voicemail who is running for the City of St. Paul City Council seat in Ward 6, which is on the Eastside of St. Paul.
Kudos to all.
BroadwayWorld Seattle has released their nominations for best of 2011 and YELLOW FACE has snagged four nominations!
David Hsieh for director, YELLOW FACE
Moses Yim, Best Leading Actor in a Play (Local), YELLOW FACE
Jeremy Behrens, Best Featured Actor in a Play (Local), YELLOW FACE
Maggie Lee, Best Lighting Design (Local), YELLOW FACE
What's more...YOU, the general public, will select the winner!
Voting is open until December 31, so go to http://seattle.broadwayworld.com/vote2011region.cfm?region=Seattle and vote for David, Moses, Jeremy and Maggie! (What? Stuffing the ballot box? Me? OF COURSE I AM!!!!). You have to given them your email, but let's show them how much YELLOW FACE touched and moved Seattle!
When: Thursday, November 10, 2011
6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Where: Izakaya and Bar Fu-Ga
111 S. San Pedro St., Los Angeles CA 90012
Admission: $10 for members, $15 for non-members, $25 for membership and admission. Free parking with validation.
Appetizers will be provided.
Special Guests: LA City Controller Wendy Greuel, CA State Senator Carol Liu, former CA State Assemblymember Cindy Montanez, and LA Community College District Board Trustee Tina Park
Despite great inroads made by women, U.S. politics remains overwhelmingly male-dominated. Women currently hold 16% percent of the 535 seats in Congress and less than 25% percent of the seats in state legislatures. There are 6 female governors; and of the 100 big-city mayors, all but eight are men. Under-representation of women in American politics raises grave concerns over the quality of democratic governance and political legitimacy. Studies reveal women are less likely to run for office and less likely to be recruited, despite having the same professional and educational qualifications as men.
With that in mind, KADC believes that in order to move towards representational parity, women must be inspired at an early age to take an interest in public service and develop leadership potential.
KADC formally extends its warmest invitation to you to attend our Fall Networking Mixer. Our hope is that you will join us as we take the opportunity to honor and recognize the achievements of female elected officials who have overcome the odds. Be inspired as you hear these dynamic female role models share their experiences, challenges and accomplishments.
From MTV.com
Nine-member Korean Pop group Girls' Generation are making a name for themselves in the U.S. The girls recently played an "epic" Madison Square Garden show, they're releasing their first Stateside single later this month and their new music video for "The Boys" has nearly 15 million YouTube views after just two weeks.
But although the group has had enormous success overseas, they're still relatively unknown in America, which is why when MTV News sat down with Girls' Generation (a.k.a. Soshi or SNSD to their international fans), we asked them to tell us what they thought new followers needed to know about them.
James Schugel
This isn't the first time WCCO has fucked it up (see this post) and if not for the good folks down at Next Media Animation who sent this my way, I wouldn't have even known (oh wait, there was a NY Post article on this too...).
Apparently WCCO reporter James Schugel was on the hot track of a story about a puppy mill selling sickly dogs when he discovered *gasp* that some of the dogs had been shipped to a Chinatown meat market and like the crack ass White Reporter he was decided to call the Dak Cheong Meat Market to ask if they sell dog meat and *gasp* misunderstood the person he was talking too because they thought he said "duck", so naturally they replied yes because who in their right fucking mind wouldn't sell duck if they were Chinatown meat distributors.
But if Schugel had actually done his reporting CYA style up front - due diligence - apparently he would have found out that the dogs getting shipped to the meat market should have never happened anyway (because they were supposed to go to a pet store).
Funny huh?
Schugel just ran with the story though because it was everything he wanted to believe about us - and WCCO his employer - well - they believed it too.
So they published it on their site.
Then realized what a colossal fuck up it was and promptly took it down.
No apology.
No thoughts on how the story and the 4th grade editing and fact checking plays into racial stereotypes or the relationship between the media and communities of color.
Nope.
Just a blip on their radar.
Like it never even happened.
I'm not exactly sure how long this will go on, and who even knows if this is appropriate, but here's part of a random list of sexual things I've liked throughout my lifetime and while you might think...well...I don't know what you might think - if you've been a reader of this blog for any amount of time, you know that at the end of the day that it doesn't really matter.
Sloppy Balls Are Happy Balls
I don't care what you say, how much you deny it, or the fact that you might not even be able to admit to yourself - if you have balls - skinny balls, fat balls, smooth balls, rugged like Grand Canyon balls, or in that rare case - three balls (because you just might be that special) - sloppy balls are just happy as hell balls and I don't know about you (but I'm taking a guess) - we all want happy balls.
And let's just say it. Let's just put it out there right or wrong, that if the one you're with isn't giving you sloppy balls it begs the question of why you're with them, because if you can't love yourself enough to ask for sloppy slicked-up lip smacking ball love you don't love yourself, and if you don't love yourself how can you expect anyone else to love you?
That's just not fair to the person you're with and if anything - you should be in a relationship that's fair.
And as long as I'm on this topic, let's just also put it out there too that if you want your balls to feel some love, the love you deserve, you should also be washing your balls and if possible - maybe your ass too - because as we all know - in the whirlwind that is the sexual explosion you were hoping for, sometimes that tongue kicks it underneath - sometimes on purpose - sometimes not.
Just be prepared is all I'm saying.
