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19/12/2024

Congratulations to our EIC Karissa Chen—her debut novel comes out January 7, 2025, and was highlighted in Goodreads’ Readers’ Most Anticipated Books of 2025!

Check out her upcoming U.S. book tour—NYC, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Kansas City, Chicago, Boston, Washington, DC: https://www.karissachen.com/events

25/11/2024

The bowl cut is back! After rooting around on some CDs for the design files (yes, CDs), we're bringing this iconic design back into print. Tees, hoodies, kids shirts, mugs & more. Get them here: https://www.teepublic.com/user/hyphen-magazine

02/10/2024

This Thursday, Oct 3, we're talking Asian American magazines! Hosted by Museum of Chinese in America, this panel celebrates the opening of the Magazine Fever exhibit. Hear from the founders and editors of influential publications, including our own Melissa Hung, founding editor in chief. In person in NYC and online. 6:30 ET. RSVP here: https://www.mocanyc.org/event/making-of-asian-ame

17/09/2024

Hey! It’s been a while. We’re excited to announce that Hyphen will be part of a new exhibit opening soon at Museum of Chinese in America: Magazine Fever: Gen X Asian American Periodicals

Join our founding editor in chief Melissa Hung for a panel on opening night, October 3. The panel will be both in person at MOCA in NYC and on Zoom.

On view from October 3, 2024, to March 30, 2025, this exhibit highlights how Asian American magazines shaped identity, culture, and politics. With over 80 rare back issues on display, discover how influential publications like A. Magazine, AsiAm, AsianWeek, Audrey, Giant Robot, Hyphen, Jade, KoreAm, Rice, Transpacific, Yolk, and others have served as critical windows to understanding the ideas and events that defined the 1980s and ’90s: multiculturalism, identity politics, the AIDS crisis, the culture wars, and the L.A. Riots.

Informed by interviews with over 25 magazine founders, key staff, contributors, and readers, Magazine Fever presents stories of Generation X magazines–how they were founded and sustained; how they were connected to their more activist-minded predecessors; how they captured the essence of multiculturalism and Generation X paradigms; and how they shaped the ways Asian American identity is understood today.

Magazine Fever also looks ahead to new directions in magazine publishing, featuring 4N, Hotam, and te magazine, offering a glimpse into how Asian American voices continue to shape narratives today.

📷 BTW, the main image for this show is from us, taken from one of our covers. Anyone remember which one?

Show info: https://www.mocanyc.org/event/magazine-fever-gen-x-asian-american-periodicals/

RSVP for the Oct 3 event: https://www.mocanyc.org/event/making-of-asian-american-magazines/

13/06/2022

Olympic champion Suni Lee went back home for a visit and found these murals around town. 🤩 (via Sunisa Lee)

22/05/2022

🎥 ✨Film Review: Everything Everywhere All At Once

Everything Everywhere All at Once has action, laughs and heart, but where's the balance between unfettered creativity and reckless abandon?

Read the full review below!

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10/05/2022

Ruby Hirose was a biochemist and bacteriologist who researched blood clotting, antitoxins and allergies.

The child of Japanese immigrants, she struggled with issues of racial identity and discrimination. She finished her doctorate in 1932.

Hirose suffered from hay fever, and worked to improve pollen extracts used to treat that allergy. The idea to treat the pollen with alum, a chemical compound, to increase its effectiveness came from her research in diphtheria prevention.

In 1940, she was among 10 women recognized by the American Chemical Society for their accomplishments. She later made major contributions to the development of vaccines against infantile paralysis.

This photo is in Smithsonian Institution Archives.

03/05/2022

Today we remember Norman Mineta, the first Asian American to serve in a presidential cabinet. As Secretary of Transportation, he quickly grounded planes in U.S. airspace during the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, and led transportation security in the months that followed.

As a Congressman, Mineta advocated for an official apology and compensation to Japanese Americans who were forced to leave their homes and live in incarceration camps during World War II. Mineta was ten when his family was forced into Heart Mountain camp in Wyoming.

This 2009 portrait of Mineta by Everett Raymond Kinstler is in the collection of our National Portrait Gallery: https://s.si.edu/37fe0CM

13/04/2022

For over fifty years, Corky Lee photographed New York's Chinatown, and Asian American communities around the country.

01/04/2022

Michelle Zauner fronts the rock band Japanese Breakfast -- up for best new artist at Sunday's Grammys -- and is writing the screenplay for "Crying in H Mart," based on her bestselling memoir.

25/03/2022

Senior Film and TV Editor Christian Ting caught up with the cast of Apple TV +'s much awaited new series- ! Watch as Jung Eun-chae (young Kyunghee), Soo Hugh, Theresa Kang-Lowe, and Soji Arai (Mozasu) discuss culture, representation, and "the shock of recognition"

Here’s a clip of Soo Hugh, series creator, discussing the cross cultural impact of brining a story like this to life!

Watch the full video here: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bRXifyqBMlc

Pachinko is now streaming on Apple TV +

18/03/2022

Domee Shi won an Oscar for her 2018 Pixar short "Bao."

09/03/2022

New Poetry by Meg Pinto! Check it out here https://hyphenmagazine.com/blog/2022/02/poetry-bloodshot-megan-pinto

24/02/2022

It's always incredible to see writers who go from publishing their stories at Hyphen magazine to debuting a book. In May 2018, we published Elizabeth Miki Brina's essay "Worse than the Dog." In February 2021, it became otherwise known as Chapter 1. Keep sending your best stuff: Hyphen is accepting pitches for original work on a rolling basis.

Details on our Submittable page here: https://hyphenmag.submittable.com/submit

One of my favorite essays of 2020 was Elizabeth Miki Brina's "Missing Ghosts," published in The Sun. I'm thrilled that our February 2021 nonfiction is an excerpt from her much anticipated memoir, "Speak, Okinawa," the story of growing up in upstate New York as the child of an Okinawan woman and an A...

24/02/2022

Okay, now you really have to read Min Jin Lee's novel, a.k.a. "this generation's War and Peace" per Polygon.

23/02/2022

Check out our latest episode of Hyphen in Hollywood! Available everywhere you get podcasts