AAPI Media

AAPI Literature

• Vertical Interrogation of Strangers, Bhanu Kapil Rider
• Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri
• The Namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri
• Native Speaker, Chang-rae Lee
• The Woman Warrior, Maxine Hong Kingston
• milk and honey, rupi kaur
• No-No Boy, John Okada

Media Recommendations (TV Shows, Music, Movies, etc.)

• Music Artists:  
  • Rocky Rivera
  • Bambu
  • Blue Scholars
  • “female south asian musicians who aren’t m.i.a.” 
  • Yuna
  • Zee Avi
  • Priscilla Ahn
  • Thao & The Get Down Stay Down
  • Vienna Teng
  • Ruby Ibarra

• Fresh Off the Boat — ABC (tw/cw: anti-blackness and misogynoir)  
  • “Fresh Off the Boat” and the dangers of perpetuating anti-blackness 

• Spoken Word (also, the art of spoken word — as well as rap, rock, even techno — has its roots in black culture and black struggle, which is important to recognize)
• “Raise Up” by Terisa Siagatonu (being Pacific Islander / Woman of Color / First Gen in Academia) 

• “broken english” by rupi kaur

• Darkmatter (while Darkmatter’s poetry has been really great for many queer, trans, non-binary people of color and south asian folx, they have been called out many times for their classism and anti-blackness, and many black femmes and black trans people have voiced their frustrations with Darkmatter and have not felt that Darkmatter has addressed these issues well)

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