85 South Asian Men Deported Following Start of #Deported2Death Campaign - NBC News

my article for NBC

"In the last six months, the detainees have been victims to civil rights violations," Gregory Cendana, executive director of the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance said in a statement. "We have to keep pressuring the State Department and the Department of Homeland Security in order to halt further deportations. We must see to it that these men find the justice they deserve and continue to fight the mass criminalization of our communities and all people of color."

85 South Asian Men Deported Following Start of #Deported2Death Campaign - NBC News

Eat Offbeat: Changing the Narrative Around Refugees One Home-Style Meal at a Time - NBC News

My article for NBC Asian America re NYC's Eat Offbeat

"We've been getting a lot of positive reactions, mostly from people who feel like they want to help refugees but don't really know how to," Manal Kahi told NBC News. "What's interesting is that people first come to us because they're intrigued by our mission, but they come back because they actually love the food - this is to say that the food prepared by our chefs is really outstanding, they are incredibly talented and they bring in great recipes."

Eat Offbeat: Changing the Narrative Around Refugees One Home-Style Meal at a Time - NBC News

Cha: An Asian Literary Journal - Texting Nostalgic for Kathmandu

What this weekend needs. My love letter to the virtual worlds we live in (not really) and Jyoti Omi Chowdhury's beautiful photographs (always). So pleased to have "Texting Nostalgic for Kathmandu," published today in Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, Hong Kong, edited by Tammy Ho Lai-Ming.

Cha: An Asian Literary Journal - Texting Nostalgic for Kathmandu

From the editors:

The belated Sixth Anniversary Issue of Cha (March 2014) is here. We would like to thank guest editors Arthur Leung (poetry) and Royston Tester (prose) for reading the submissions with us and helping us put together a great edition. We would also like to thank Eddie Tay for another fine selection of book reviews and Daryl Yam for reading the contest poems and writing a commentary on why we choose the poems. The issue includes an editorial by Tammy Ho Lai-Ming titled "Meetings with Remarkable Men and Women".

The following writers/artists have generously allowed us to showcase their work:
Poetry: Reid Mitchell, B.B.P. Hosmillo, Renée M. Schell, Edward Ragg, Bryan Thao Worra, Mingjuan Tan, Reihana Robinson, Amy Uyematsu, Deborah Guzzi, Jenna Le, Ranu Uniyal, Suzanne Hermanoczki, Eileen Chong
"Void" poetry contest winners: Catherine Edmunds, Richard L. Provencher, Arlene Yandug, Maj Ikle, Hao Guang, Leonadrea Tan, Amit Shankar Saha
Fiction: Mark Crimmins, Sreedhevi Iyer, Peter Phillips, Peabody Winston
Creative non-fiction: Mary J. Breen, Amanda Faye Lacson, Frances Kai-Hwa Wang, Jyoti Omi Chowdhury
Excerpts: Priya Sarukkai Chabria, Christopher Taylor
Interviews: Rhiannon Jenkins Tsang, Shaily Sahay
Lost tea: Fehmida Zakeer
Photography & art: Hu Jiamin (cover artist), Johanna Audiffred, Eddie Tay, Jyoti Omi Chowdhury
Reviews & essays: John Wall Barger, William Noseworthy, Shaily Sahay, Emma Zhang, Bhanumati Mishra, Cecilia Chan, Elen Turner, Vaughan Rapatahana

Nostalgic for Kathmandu

Rereading Han Su YIn's The Mountain is Young and feeling nostalgic.

A friend tells me that the word nostalgia derives from a wound that has not yet healed.

I don't know if one ever recovers from Kathmandu.

Writing today.


More earlier http://www.franceskaihwawang.com/2012/11/han-suyin-mountain-is-young.html