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Another of his commitments was the Asian-American Christian Fellowship (AACF), the group through which Quach and Gu first...
BETTER LUCK TOMORROW. Justin Lin’s complex, exhilarating breakthrough film features an all Asian-American cast and packs some real punch. Four high school overachievers inevitably bound for prestigious Ivy League universities turn to cheating, drugs and crime to escape the terrible ennui of their privileged suburban lives. Critic Roger Ebert stood up on a chair at the Sundance Film Festival to defend Lin’s portrayal of Asian-Americans. See full story in the April 11 issue. Better Luck Tomorrow screens...
...know for certain if people will perceive me as a man. By donning this dubious man-costume, I’ll only be able to examine how a woman who already dresses androgynously is treated differently from a person whose gender identity is deliberately uncertain. I also wonder how Asian-American stereotypes will factor into this experiment. After all, Asian-American men chronically suffer from stereotypes depicting them as fey, wily, perverted bantamweights—will this make my attempt at passing any easier? What happens when a butchy Chinese dyke dresses up as a butchy Chinese thug...
...realize pretty quickly that it will be hard to tell what discernible effect, if any, my Asian-American features have on how my passing is perceived. There are just too many factors at work here: I’ll never be able to tell whether people are responding to my Chineseness or to the fact that I’m an angry teenage boy-girl with a weird walk, a high-pitched croak and a white baseball cap from the Bahamas...
...council later passed a fresh batch of grants to student groups, responding to previously postponed spring grant requests from the Harvard-Radcliffe Christian Fellowship and Harvard-Radcliffe Asian-American Christian Fellowship, among other requests...