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Ethnic Studies professor | Sociologist | 📚 Reel Inequality: Hollywood Actors and Racism (2nd edition w/updates drops March 9, 2027 @rutgersupress)

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Excited to be co-coordinating this panel with Dr. Darwin Baluran for the Association of Asian American Studies’ Social Science Caucus on Friday, Oct 30 from 9-10am pt.

Yes…i’m on another board for another organization. What can I say…!? 🤣
This panel is for folks on the academic job market or soon-to-be. It’s never too early to get some insights into application processes and job committees! Attendance is free for anyone. Just register at the link in my bio or at www.tinyurl.com/socscijobs

Our panelists come from a variety of institutional backgrounds and have lots of insider knowledge to share having been on job committees at different kinds of university environments, from R1s to community colleges.

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MEGAN LAWLESS (Obsession) talks about being mixed race.

🎧LISTEN TO THE FULL EPISODE WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCASTS!

#thatwasprettyscary #horror #obsession #asians #mixedrace

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I’ve been a fan of @becerraforgovernor since way before 2018. But here’s the man himself and me, at a small event supporting Democratic Attorney General candidates in 2018. And standing with him again yesterday in Monterey Park with fellow AAPI people who support expertise and egalitarian democracy in 2026 and beyond. Please vote Xavier Becerra for governor in California on your 2026 spring ballot! Voting ends on June 2. Don’t delay! 💙

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Are you still suffering from Pursuit of Jade withdrawal? ⚔️❤️‍🩹🐷

To help ease the pain, we put together a list of historical C-dramas and K-dramas (curated by @nancywyuen ) and East Asian-inspired fantasy novels (curated by @nancyslitlounge ) that share some of our favorite elements of PoJ (strong FMC, court intrigue, slow burn romance, stunning visuals, etc). Let us know if you have another recommendation for what to watch/read after PoJ!

💭Do you have a favorite book that you would love to see as a drama, or a drama that you would love to read as a novel? 🎬📖

📌See the pinned comments for titles & plot summaries!

(Shout out to @azhangia.reads for inspiring us to make our own PoJ fan post – check out her recommendations reel with mad video editing skills🤩)

#pursuitofjade #cdramafans #kdramafans #asianfantasy #historicalfantasy

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Last Friday was a total blast, and we are still thinking about it.

Our 4th API Film Night welcomed 300+ guests to James Bridges Theater. What began four years ago as a small gathering has grown into a space for filmmakers, students, alumni, and community members to come together through cinema.

This year’s five shorts reminded us how alive and expansive API storytelling can be: documentary, drama, animation, puppetry, family histories, strange humor, hard questions, and moments that caught us off guard. In a loud and turbulent time, the theater gave us something rare: a room full of people watching, feeling, laughing, grieving, and imagining together.

Thank you to our filmmakers for trusting us with your stories, and to our moderator, team, partners, UCLA TFT, the Development Office, and everyone who helped bring this night to life. Most of all, thank you to everyone who showed up and stayed with us.

We hope these stories inspired you to keep telling your own. We cannot wait for what is still to come.

With gratitude, Merry May & Fengyun

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4th API Film Night WRAPPED! @apifilmnight So happy to host it for the 4th year on a roll and this year we welcomed 300+ guests, the highest attendance EVER!
An event like this wouldn’t exist without the incredible team behind it. I’m grateful for my teammates: Fengyun @zoefiveshots designed the graphics, Shuyi @kavoko_ & Jessie @2j1e3zzz helped check-ins, and Joshua to help promote the event!
Thank you Nancy Wang Yuen @nancywyuen for being our moderator! I had the honor to be your teaching assistant before I graduated and so happy to see you back!!
We hope to thank the filmmakers: Iris @lanhua_m Christian @christianmakesfilms , Wendy @txrwendy, Kano @kanoumezaki , Joshua!
Shoutout to TFT and Development Office — Dean Celine @uclatftdean @ucla_tft Thai, Aaron, Christy, Rose, Sonia, and Libby for your guidance & graciously fielding our countless emails in the past months.
We want to thank our Projectionist Amos for making the films look beautiful. Thank you Juan for running the show. Thank you to our BTS photographers Raqib @raakib_yousuf_dar Jiakai @jzhang2519 and Adelle @adelle.yan for taking pictures. Shout out to alumni mentor Sophie and Nate who co-founded the festival with us!
Another huge THANK YOU to our Community Partners for helping us spread the word – UCLA’s Asian Pacific Alumni, UCLA Asian American Studies Center @uclaaasc , APEX, UTeaLA, Lightseeking Pictures, AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST WESTWOOD THAI CAFE @westwoodthaicafe for offering us delicious Asian food for the reception!
Last but not least, THANK YOU ALL FOR COMING! Each of you makes tonight especially special.

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An effort was made lol

Covered Gold House's Gold Gala & spent time with the best people (missing @jesvu
Photo op)

Previously posted with the weirdest glitch ever lol

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Hallmark Channel dropped the promo poster for its new movie ‘All’s Fair in Love and Mahjong’ on Friday and the internet wasted no time dragging it.

For a movie centered around mahjong, people are side-eyeing the casting choices. The poster shows a mostly white cast, with just one Asian actor, Yan-Kay Crystal Lowe, who is of Chinese-Scottish descent.

The rom-com synopsis reads: “A school nurse turns her love of the game Mahjong into a new path, inspired by a jovial contractor fixing up her home, who encourages her to take a chance on the future.”

Meanwhile, the mahjong tiles featured on the poster are from the film’s branded set, which Hallmark plans to sell on its website through a collab with Miss Mahjong. The Kansas-based game company says it was founded by “a trio of Mahjong-obsessed friends and neighbors” named Anne Marie, Morgan, and Betsy. Although the founders don’t share additional details (🧐) the optics are giving the same energy as a the whitewashed mahjong brands we previously called out: Oh My Mahjong! (just three weeks ago) and The Mahjong Line back in 2021.

The film’s title, a spin on the phrase, “all’s fair in love and war,” was probably meant to be cheeky, but instead the comments section seems ready for battle with the network.

“Just do monopoly next time or something,” wrote one person. “Collective ancestral sigh,” wrote another.

To top it off, the movie is set to premiere May 9… during AAPI Heritage Month. @hallmarkchannel it’s not too late to scrap this mess.

#mahjong #movie #film #aapi #viral

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APAHE 2026
📍Anaheim, CA

Every year I am astonished by the incredible AANHPI representation that shows up at APAHE. A group of remarkably bright, talented, incredible people all coming together to celebrate and elevate Asian and Pacific Americans in Higher Education. This year I got to meet so many incredible people who are responsible for the success and inspiration of thousands of students, faculty, staff, administrators, and more. I hope to continue the spark that these people have lit and aspire to lead and live life with the courage, passion, and aspirations as they have.

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Kaila Yu spent years as an Asian American pinup model, singer and actress, leaning into a hypersexualized image of Asian femininity and burying her doubts about it. ⁠
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But after the 2021 Atlanta spa shootings, she started reckoning with how fetishization can lead to violence — and interrogating her own role in perpetuating harmful stereotypes. ⁠
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She talks with Anita about her new memoir “Fetishized.” Plus, sociologist Nancy Wang Yuen breaks down how history and Hollywood built the stereotypes in the first place and what we can do to break free. ⁠
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#AsianAmerican #Feminism #Stereotypes #YellowFever #Hollywood

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#APAHE2026 attendees! Reminder that Monday's keynote speaker: Tamlyn Tomita, moderated by Nancy Wang Yuen, starts at 9am in the Marquis Ballroom!

Read bios and add the keynote to your agenda in Whova!

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This is part of the "Soulful Thursdays" series with the intent to give props to women of various cultures in honor of women history month

There are so many great Asian food dishes out there to feed your inner soul - happy Thursday

#thursday #foodie #womenhistorymonth #cooking #asian

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