On this day in history, a lot of horrific atrocities were committed against Asian people. And even though we are commemorating past acts of violence waged against Asians, the numbers of anti-Asian attacks are only continuing to rise over the past year.

Today is not only the one year anniversary of the shootings in Atlanta…

“A few weeks ago at the University of Michigan School of Music, Theater, and Dance, a Chinese American composition teacher, Bright Sheng, was teaching an undergraduate composition seminar. In the class, he presented a video of the 1965 National Theater’s production of Shakespeare’s Othello in which Lawrence Olivier appears…”

“The Grammy Awards are tomorrow.

Strangely, if my loved ones weren’t constantly wishing me well for tomorrow, I would almost have forgotten about the ceremony. While it is surreal enough to be nominated for a Grammy Award, it is even more dreamlike in the context of covid, with everything taking place online…”

“For much of the past year, most of my Monday evenings have begun with a book club meeting. Like many people I know, as the nation descended into a spring and summer of racial reckoning in the wake of the murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, a circle of my friends from childhood formed a book club to digest and process the concepts that we were reading about in books like…”