Please join me in conversation with writer Elaine Hsieh Chou about her latest short story collection, WHERE ARE YOU REALLY FROM, followed by an audience Q&A.
@elainehsiehchou.bsky.social @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social

In the wake of the invasion of our beloved Little Tokyo by Border Patrol and ICE agents, the community speaks back! #stopice #iceoutofla @jamuseum.bsky.social

Composer Osvaldo Golijov, librettist David Henry Hwang, and a brilliant cast and creative team designed a production, whose visuals, music/ soundscape, and movement i found captivating. In this photo, percussive gunfire turns into the percussive rhythms of flamenco. Stunning.

Witnessed this extraordinarily timely opera last night–AINADAMAR: A CLASH OF DICTATORS AND POETS, at LAOpera. About the legacy of Federico Garcia Lorca and the rise of the Falangists/ Facism in Spain. One more performance May 18.

I was fortunate to be able to teach with Donel for my undergraduate class on “Vulnerability.” See his powerful and moving show!

“Drawing from a specific memory of signing over his late father’s autonomy with an ‘X’ on an official Durable Power of Attorney document, Williams puts forth his own abstracted iterations of marks used to violently erase Black identity throughout history.”

Congratulations to brilliant artist Donel Williams, whose show “The Incomprehensible Politics of Mark Marking*” opened May 13 and continues through May 23, at the Roski Graduate School of Art and Design.

If you haven’t already, please click this link supporting the National Humanities Alliance and their advocacy for academic freedom, free speech, and preservation of rigorous research. Federal agencies like NEH cannot advocate for themselves.

p2a.co/DdtlGIT

I’ve been devastated by the news. The book project, “The Art of Vulnerability: Sexual and Racial Violence, Disability, and Asian/American Performance”, was to be a career capstone. Now my dreams seem infinitely delayed, given my disability issues.

The Japanese American newspaper, Rafu Shimpo, published this article about the rescinding of National Endowment for the Humanities grants, including my own.

I urge you to do everything within your power to fight back against the President’s agenda and restore funding to the NEH and to the grant recipients who have rightfully earned and were guaranteed support for our work. Please use this link to urge your congresspeople to save the NEH: p2a.co/DdtlGIT

In my own case, the defunding means that my research will, at best, be delayed for years. At worst, I may have to abandon this project. For a scholar, time off from teaching and administration is the only real way we can advance our research.

This book is the culmination of my life's work; with the rising anti-Asian violence in America and continuing violence against women’s and LGBTQ+ rights and bodies, it is more important than ever. The termination of my grant, and so many others, is a despicable attack on freedom of speech.

I received an NEH grant that would have allowed me to dedicate twelve months to my book project, The Art of Vulnerability: Sexual and Racial Violence, Disability, and Asian / American Performance.

I know that people in ASTR and ATHE are trying to coalesce around these issues. I’m hoping that other professional organizations will follow suit.

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Please take a moment to support the NEH; the link below will allow you to contact Congress and send a message with one click. And of course, if anyone has ideas about mobilizing, contacting the media, etc., please let me know.

Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing, and Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government. Devastated and outraged!

DOGE Strikes!

Hi everyone. As predicted, the NEH grant for my book project The Art of Vulnerability: Sexual and Racial Violence, Disability, and Asian/ American Performance rescinded in “furtherance of the President’s agenda” including: