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The PEN Pod: On Race, Place, and Belonging with Sejal Shah

InterviewJuly 14, 2020

“I’m certainly thinking about kinship. . . What do we owe our neighbors and fellow humans. . . for whom to be alive is a risk?” More

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Across the Asian Americas: An APA Heritage Month Reading List

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This reading list, curated by Kaya Press author Rajiv Mohabir, invites us to reexamine “Asian American” as a complicated category. More

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The PEN Pod: Looking to the Past to Imagine a Better Future with Helen Zia

InterviewMay 27, 2020

“Every Asian American in the United States and people with Asian faces all over the world are experiencing this global pandemic of racism and hatred.” More

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Epic Novels, Sweeping Sagas: An APA Heritage Month Reading List

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This reading list comes to us from Asian American Writers Workshop Executive Director Jafreen Uddin, and is a continuation of our efforts to amplify Asian American voices in literature. More

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Asian American Voices: An Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month Reading List

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In response to violence directed at individuals of Asian descent, we’ve sought to help amplify contemporary Asian American voices in this reading list. More

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Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon for Asian-American Literature

Saturday, May 12, 2018 | 12:00 pm – 3:00 pm
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