The Stories We Tell, and Don’t Tell, About Asian-American Lives

Identity isn’t a prescriptive solution. But when you’re uncertain of your place within society, it can help to have ready-made categories or narratives, even if you choose to reject them. There’s a power in being able to recognize our struggles as the result of paradoxes we live within rather than seeing them as purely private failings. It’s a step toward imagining lives that we might be the authors of, with endings that we write ourselves.

In the NewsTheater MuJuly 18, 2019History, Social Science

LGBTQ Asian Americans seen as more ‘American’

Researchers from the University of Washington found that the hypothetical “gay Asian American man” was perceived as significantly more American than the hypothetical “Asian American man,” whose sexual orientation wasn’t specified.

In the NewsTheater MuJuly 3, 2019Social Science, LGBTQ

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