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After months of campaigning by immigrant and LGBTQ rights groups, Nicoll Hernández-Polanco was freed from her detention by ICE. Her story, written by Kris Hayashi of the Transgender Law Center, is a story of a young woman who escaped the broken immigration system, and how she was criminalized and psychologically tortured simply for being young and transgender.
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How to address one of Orange is the New Black's biggest blindspots.
On love, family, and solidarity.
When I think of Grace-nowadays, I first see her hands.
Delicate rice paper skin,
nails that amazingly collect the day's pollution
without touching outside air,
and thin blue veins
pumping the blood of 100 year-old stories.- Marcia Lee
Hyphen sits down wth the filmmaker duo Stephen Dypiangco and Patrick Mendoza Epino to talk about Awesome Asian Bad Guys, which recently received distribution through FilmBuff.
Papa. Tatay. Ba. Bo. Father. Baba. Papi. Appa. Dad. Daddy. Abu. These are just some of the titles and names we call our fathers.
Kristina Wong holds up a mirror to activists, her audience, and herself.
Viet Nguyen's "Crush The Skull" will premiere at the Los Angeles Film Festival, and will screen on two dates: Thursday June 11, 2015 @ 11:00 PM and Wednesday June 17, 2015 @ 9:30 PM.
In this session of The Talks, Timothy Tau sits down with the film's writer and director Emily Ting to discuss how the writing of the film was semi-autobiographical and how during filming, they had to pay off local Triad gangsters to continue shooting in certain locations.
We present an excerpt of Matthew Salesses's new novel The Hundred Year Flood for June lit.
Although Fatima Bhutto's 'The Shadow of the Crescent Moon' seems to draw from her own political family's troubled history in Pakistan, the novel signals the debut of a promising storyteller.
We're talkin' 'bout a revolution! Our latest issue features key revolutionaries Grace Lee Boggs and Yuri Kochiyama, along with grassroots movements happening today.
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