“Let’s Just Be Funny. Let’s Not Teach People Anything”: Ronny Chieng Will Use His Platform However He Sees Fit, Thank You (Vanity Fair)

Monday (April 25th) review of Asian American news & newsmakers

Headlines

“Old Enough: the Japanese TV show that abandons toddlers on public transport” - (The Guardian)

Notable AAPI Headlines

• 70-Year-Old Asian American Woman Describes Unprovoked Attack in Chinatown (NBC Boston)

• Cancer burden facing Asian Americans partly caused by racism (UC Davis Health)

• San Dieguito superintendent, placed on leave for comments about Asian students, claims retaliation (San Diego Union Tribune)

Entertainment

• Old Enough: the Japanese TV show that abandons toddlers on public transport (The Guardian)

• Michelle Yeoh Breaks Down In Tears: This Role Is 'Something I've Been Waiting For' (HuffPost)

• How ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ Helps to Heal Generational Trauma (NYT)

• ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ Review: It’s Messy, and Glorious (NYT)

• How Stephanie Hsu Brought One of the Year’s Best Queer Characters to Life (them)

• ABC’s New Drama Series “BARONS” Cast Include Asian Australians (Being Asian Australian)

• 'Fire Island' trailer: 'Pride and Prejudice' goes gay with Joel Kim Booster, Bowen Yang (NBC News)

• Michelle Yeoh Shows Asian Immigrant Women Are 'Everything' (USN)

• The Many Lives of Ke Huy Quan (GQ)

• “Let’s Just Be Funny. Let’s Not Teach People Anything”: Ronny Chieng Will Use His Platform However He Sees Fit, Thank You (Vanity Fair)

• Kate Tsang Makes Magic Badass in ‘Marvelous and the Black Hole’ (Thrillist)

Culture / Lifestyle

• Asian American wrongfully accused of spying recounts damage of racial profiling (NBC News)

• No, Black and Asian people do not resent ‘Western achievements.’ We made them possible. (NBC News)

• The pandemic inspired a cartoonist to explore their Wuhanese roots and queer identity (NPR)

• Asian-American Federation hosts safety training event in Brooklyn (CBS New York)

• ‘The fear is very real’: how Asian Americans are fighting rising hate crime (The Guardian)

• Korean American female pastors push back against patriarchy

  (NBC News)

• Opinion: This movie's Asian American metaphor is a message to the not-so-United States (CNN)

• Burned and vandalized: A history of cherry blossoms bearing the brunt of xenophobia (NBC News)

• Lynchings: An untold piece of Asian American history (Axios)

• How should Asian American Christians respond to anti-Asian racism? (Christian Century)