Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg, Jr., New York State Senator Brad Hoylman-Sigal, and New York State Assemblymember Grace Lee today announced the introduction of new state legislation (S7737), the Hate Crimes Modernization Act. The new legislation increases the list of hate crime eligible charges from 66 to 97, which would enhance charges and certain sentences.
Diwali, also known as the “Festival of Lights,” will be celebrated this year on Sunday, November 12th, though tons of events will be taking place around NYC throughout the month.
WHIAANHPI offers student volunteer internship opportunities year-round (spring, summer, and fall). The Initiative prioritizes full-time, in-person applicants (32-40 hours a week), though virtual and part-time applicants who can commit to at least 25 hours a week will also be considered. Internships are based in Washington, DC, with the option to work hybrid or remotely.
The Asian American Mentorship Providing Opportunities to Women for Empowerment and Resilience (AAMPOWER) at CUNY group aims to build a community of practice that offers a safe and inclusive space for discussing and sharing issues concerning the Asian and Asian American experience in higher education.
The entry of Cambodians in the United States was not simply a migration, but a crash-landing as refugees after an incredible loss of population, humanity, culture & arts, religion, and thinkers. How, then, do the diasporic inheritors of this history respond via cultural production? And how does artist-scholar Sokunthary Svay’s own work including her newly published memoir, Put It On Record, address this question?
At MoMA, her images of Vietnam, the American South and the California desert show the vanishing line between boot camp and theater, fiction and truth. They are tour-de-force beautiful.