04.11.08
NYC Asian American Student Conference
The 2nd NYC Asian American Student Conference takes place at NYU this Saturday, April 12. This year’s conference theme is "redefine"; a broad range of subjects will be up for discussion. I’ll be speaking on a panel entitled Challenging the Mainstream: Asian Americans in the Ethnic Blogosphere, along with Carmen Van Kerckhove (Racialicious), Jenn Fang (Reappropriate), William Lee (Fallout Central), Jen Wang and Diana Nguyen (Disgrasian), and Phil Yu (Angry Asian Man). The workshop description reads:
Since its advent, the internet has been a crucial medium through which APA activists channel their thoughts and opinions about progressive issues.
From it, the growing phenomenon of writing web logs, or "blogging", has allowed activists and ethnic commentators to challenge mainstream media’s opinions of society. The Boston Globe has called such blogs
"places where people of color gather to refine ideas or form thoughts about race relations, racial inequities, and the role pop culture has in exacerbating stereotypes." In this workshop, you will learn how you can begin your own such process of blogging as a form of activism in order to challenge mainstream media and its dialogues upon race and
Asian Americana.