russell leong – Asian American / Asian Research Institute

CUNY FORUM Volume 11:1

December 30, 2024December 30, 2024 By AAARI

Economic and structural inequality, racial scapegoating, and anti-Asian xenophobia all played a role in violence against Asian Americans, then, and continue unabated to today in 2021. Against the backdrop of the continuing global Covid-19 crisis and anti-Asian violence and hate in the United States, we present to you the reader some signals of hope and reclamation on the local and national level: Asian Americans recognizing and reclaiming their place in the larger civil society despite immense institutional and ideological barriers.

MothSutra, an East to West Poetry Reading

September 19, 2024June 22, 2024 By Russell C. Leong

Russell C. Leong, poet and editor, will read from his 2015 illustrated graphic poem, MothSutra, based on his living and working Manhattan’s Chinatown and the Bowery, and his study of Buddhism.

CUNY FORUM Volume 10:1

December 30, 2024May 24, 2023 By AAARI

CUNY FORUM Volume 9:1

March 1, 2022February 1, 2022 By AAARI

武侠电影 / Wuxia Flick

March 17, 2021May 25, 2020 By Russell C. Leong

武侠电影 Wuxia Flick Produced by Corona Studios, Unlimited, 2020. Trailer: A decade before, the world in 2009 Was divided into diseases of pigs and birds— Split into desires with stunted names Like SARS, AIDS, FLU that flew From tongue to lavender tongue, that entered through moist boba pearls Of saliva, blood & unprotected sex, … Read more

CUNY FORUM Volume 7:1

January 13, 2022January 30, 2020 By AAARI

The latest Fall/Winter 2019-2020 special issue, guest edited by Stephen Lee and Elizabeth Hanna Rubio (University of California, Irvine), centers on the experiences of Asian Pacific Islanders (APIs) and in doing so, contributes to a small, but growing body of literature within Asian American and U.S. immigration studies that explores what it means to be Asian American and living under the threat of immigration-related consequences such as deportation. The contributions in this volume of CUNY FORUM touch upon a variety of themes: Politics, Identity, and Social Movements.