Preparing Little Brother for a Mass Shooting – Reappropriate

My essay as part of the #writebackfightback series sponsored by 18MillionRising, Asian Americans Advancing Justice, and Reappropriate--from March 8

Preparing Little Brother for a Mass Shooting – Reappropriate

How Can We Make the MFA Workshop More Hospitable to Writers of Color? | Literary Hub

How Can We Make the MFA Workshop More Hospitable to Writers of Color? | Literary Hub

‘Describe Yourself Like a Male Author Would’ Is the Most Savage Twitter Thread in Ages

‘Describe Yourself Like a Male Author Would’ Is the Most Savage Twitter Thread in Ages

writing w style: food and family this sat at WCC

Fun new writing workshop w me, "writing w style: food and family," (the two best topics to write about), this sat April 7 9:30-3:30, at Washtenaw community college. A few spaces left, Register today!

https://washtenaw.augusoft.net/index.cfm?method=ClassInfo.ClassInformation&int_class_id=16997&int_category_id=3&int_sub_category_id=49&int_catalog_id=0

Speaking at Detroit's 15th Annual Images and Perceptions Diversity Conference

Speaking at Detroit's 15th Annual Images and Perceptions Diversity Conference on April 19 at Ford Community and Performing Arts Center, Dearborn

Look how much fun I had at MAASU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paxgrsRE12M

Giving the Keynote today at MAASU at OSU

Speaking today at the Historical Society of Michigan on Vincent Chin case

Updates

This website is in the middle of being updated so... Here are some of my recent articles:

Why Are Asian American Women Still Inaccurately Portrayed on TV?

AlterNet-Mar 10, 2018

Hawaiian language finds new prominence in Hawaii's courts ...

NBCNews.com-Feb 28, 2018

After the recall , Ka'eo said he felt the judge did not understand the movement to revitalize the Hawaiian language, NBC affiliate Hawaii News Now reported. "This is not just about language,” Ka'eo reportedly said. “This is a larger questions in which Hawaiians have been struggling to become visible within Hawaii and the ...

Asian Americans and the food justice movement in metro-Detroit
https://www.detroitjournalism.org/2018/02/20/asian-americans-food-justice-movement-metro-detroit-adding-complexity-making-connections/
Reprinted in these New Michigan Media publications: http://newmichiganmedia.com/meet-the-publishers/

Newsrooms should be more diverse, even ours

UConn Daily Campus-Feb 15, 2018

Last Thursday, the University of Connecticut Department of Journalism invited three professional journalists to speak on a panel titled “Confronting Racism in Journalism” in Wilbur Cross. The panelists were Frances Kai-Hwa Wang, essayist for “NBC AsianAmerica” and a contributor to Public Radio International; Helen ...

Professional journalists talk race representation in the media

UConn Daily Campus-Feb 9, 2018

The event hosted Frances Kai-Hwa Wang, essayist for NBC News: Asian America and contributor to Public Radio International; Helen Ubinas, columnist for the Philadelphia Inquirer and Hartford Courant's first Latina news columnist; and Kevin Blackistone, columnist for The Washington Post and commentator on ESPN's ...

Speaking at Univ of Minnesota Feb 20