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WIRI: “Things Asians Hate” by Eliot Chang

January 18, 2013 by

THIS. I ran into this via Womanist Musings, one of my favorite blogs to read. Yesterday’s post was this video and I LOL’d.

If you’re Asian American, any of these racist questions and statements have been said to you. I think I’ve been asked or told at least 90% of these. If you’re a dude, you’ve probably had ALL of them asked of you.

Enjoy!

Eliot Chang – you’re doing great! I hope you get super big. Yesterday, I think the video count was around 30,000. This morning it’s about 75,000 views. Great job!

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I’m Headed to Blogalicious 2012!

February 28, 2012 by

Last year, at a social media breakfast with my peers, one of the gals sent me a link to Blogalicious. I  mentioned that I wished there was a conference or event for people of color. I thought, “Holy shite, this is for meeeeeee!” Who else would understand the family pressure to get pregnant this year for a frakkin’ Dragon baby than Asian American women? (I’m a Rabbit, and I think I’m pretty rockin.’) Who else gets made fun of when trying to use her less-than-elementary Cantonese? Who else would be able to understand the constant juggling of Chinese traditions/culture into my American/Angeleno life? Who else would understand 1,000-year old eggs, seaweed that looks like Samara’s black hair (you know what I’m talkin’ about, Asians!), salted fish in fried rice, and the awesome tastiness of that stuff!?

At that time, it was too late for me to register and pony up the money to fly to DC, especially since I had just attended BlogHer in San Diego.

But this time, Blogalicious sent an email announcing that the conference would be in Las Vegas! *fist pump* Yes! And Yes! I told the Wife about it, and he gave his blessing to spend the dough. Plus it’s my birthday weekend! (My birthday’s on the 26th, and this is perfect timing!)

So who’s got two thumbs and just took advantage of the early bird registration? That’s right – I did!

I’m looking forward to connecting with more bloggers of color as well as companies who understand the importance of, well, marketing to people of color. Not all of us are white and blond and thin. A lot of us are short, brown-haired, tubby and yellow-skinned. We also tend to speak a second language and tether two cultures in life.

If you’re going to register – do it now. Blogalicious is offering the early bird registration of $125 until all 50 early bird tickets have been sold. Then the price goes up to $199. Think of what you can do with $75 – you can probably book a Jetblue or Southwest flight to Vegas! The conference will be held at Red Rock Casino-Resort, which I’ve never been. It’ll be fun to celebrate my 21st birthday for the 16th time there!

source: http://www.redrocklasvegas.com/photo_gallery/hotel.php

Will I see you there?

 

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BlogHer 2011: Part 3 – General Thoughts

October 3, 2011 by

Look it’s been months now since BlogHer 2011 happened. Bear with me with my short post on my “issues.” Even I can’t remember all my points. I have two posts up already on things I’ve done and learned there.

First and foremost, I had a great time. I am usually not a passive person, and I sought out others and events to make my time count. I met a ton of new bloggers (mommies and non-mommies), and I brought home new blog ideas and swag to give away.

This is the post where I list what I felt BlogHer was missing: namely, an Asian American blogger presence. No, I don’t mean Asian American mommy blogger. I mean general, lifestyle, humor, nerdy, non-mommy Asian American bloggers.

I felt a little overwhelmed with the number of mommy bloggers in attendance. Granted, I knew, going in, that this was a conference that happened to have a majority of mommy bloggers attending. I get it.

I loved that there was a Latina bloggers group as well as an African-American bloggers group. Where was my affinity group? I was sitting in the HTC lounge one day, and an Asian American woman sat near me and introduced herself. She was trying to meet as many Asian American bloggers as she could, mommy or no. I swear to you, I was very tempted to do the same thing that weekend.

After the conference, BlogHer tweeted back to me about my question on Asian Americans on a panel. They said, hey maybe I can form a Birds of a Feather room. I think I’d like that. It is going to be in NYC next year in August, and I don’t know if I can afford to go again. But if I know myself, by January next year, I’ll have registered again!

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