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

🎥 ✨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?

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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.

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

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

She's up for two Grammys. Her bestseller will be a movie. Meet the Korean American who's shaking up entertainment 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.

Domee Shi was a Pixar intern 11 years ago—now she's the first woman to solo-direct a feature there Domee Shi won an Oscar for her 2018 Pixar short "Bao."

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

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

FEBRUARY 2021 NONFICTION: "SPEAK, OKINAWA" EXCERPT 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...

Feb. 19, 2022 marks 80 years since Executive Order 9066, which led to the incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II.

While imprisoned, painter Chiura Obata turned to art. He created art schools to help others cope with their displacement and loss.

On our podcast Sidedoor, hear more about Obata and the power of art in tumultuous times: https://s.si.edu/3gUO68v

🎨: Chiura Obata, Evening Glow at Mono Lake, n.d., watercolor on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Obata Family, 2005.17.3, © 1989, Yuri Kodani

The Asian American Pipeline in Figure Skating The chain of success stretches back for years and has only strengthened as more have poured into the sport and become Olympic stars.

Figure skater Nathan Chen glides to his first Olympic gold Chen, 22, who struggled in parts of the 2018 Games, continued a dominant performance at the Beijing Olympics to win the gold Thursday.

Daaaaayum, Chloe Kim! 💛🥇💛🥇💛

Chloe Kim dominates in halfpipe for second straight Olympic gold The 21-year-old star snowboarder won gold in halfpipe at the Beijing Games, four years after winning in PyeongChang.

This costume was worn by figure skater Kristi Yamaguchi, who became the first Asian-American woman to win an Olympic gold medal when she finished first in women's singles in 1992.

Designed by Lauren Sheehan and worn for the "Stars on Ice" tour, it's now in our National Museum of American History.

How do you preserve the memory of women in your family? For Hyphen editor-at-large and author/artist Lisa Lee Herrick, writing and sewing are two ways that she remains connected to her mother and Hmong family history.

Published February 8, 2022.

My Mother Told Stories Through Hmong Embroidery, I Use the Pen | Lisa Lee Herrick This wordless method of mythmaking was easy to transmit from mothers to daughters.

📚February Fiction📚: We're excited to bring you an excerpt of THE FAMILY CHAO, Lan Samantha Chang's much anticipated third novel. An ingenious retelling of Dostoevsky's THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV!

"THE FAMILY CHAO" BY LAN SAMANTHA CHANG An excerpt

Olivia Munn opens up about racist Zoombombing during AAPI meeting: ‘It was jarring’ The actor spoke to TODAY about the virtual event she hosted last week that was overtaken by “really violent, horrific graphic images and racial slurs and rhetoric.”

Behind every celebrity chef cooking show is . . . an entire behind-the-scenes department. Kristen Kish shows who makes the magic happen off-camera.

Check out our new Take 5 Series where we feature 5 questions with Asian American authors. First up, Sharon Suzuki-Martinez- author of The Loneliest Whale Blues!!

TAKE 5 WITH SHARON SUZUKI-MARTINEZ Take 5 series

These tunnels were built in the 1800s by Chinese immigrants. Today, they are still an engineering marvel.

The Quest to Protect California's Transcontinental Railroad Tunnels Built by Chinese immigrants in the 1860s, the caverns cutting through Donner Summit helped unite the country

'I'm Asian American, I Battled So Much Shame About My Mental Health' Sculpting the image of a successful immigrant family was important. Dad would say when I was going through a depressive episode: "You have nothing to complain about. You should be happy."

"We are cast into a film
about our own apocalypse."

— Cathy Linh Che

Three Poems by Cathy Linh Che Poetry by Cathy Linh Che

Producer Karin Chien Shares Keynote at Sundance Film Festival 2022 Producer Karin Chien addresses producers at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival in honor of their movies.