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/
