Syllabus: Asian American Stories Porntip Israsena Twishime, University of Massachusetts Amherst Porntip Israsena Twishime is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Communication at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she researches narratives about Asian Americans and Asian American storytelling as a mode of relation and knowledge production. I designed Asian American Stories as a […]
Welcome back to THROUGHLINES, Kaya Press’s newsletter that bridges the gap between contemporary Asian Pacific literature and scholars/educators. In our third issue, Porntip Israsena Twishimem shares her syllabus for Asian American Stories, and we continue with the second installment of our running inventory, taking stock of recent publications by API diasporic authors. Claire Light (pen name […]
In the year 2020, we’ve swung wildly from dread and despair to hope. Yet at the heart of all of the calamity — the coronavirus pandemic and its economic repercussions, etc. — has also been a global call to unite and protect the values that make us all human. A call to our ancestors, who […]
Here we continue sharing resources and links that are helping us engage with social justice and Black Lives Matter movement issues. Click here to read the previous Black Lives Matter / Social Justice Links and Resources I. Neelanjana Banerjee, Kaya Press Managing Editor In general, I have closely been following the work of Patrisse Cullors, […]
As part of Kaya’s dedication to join in the movement for systemic change and for Black Lives, we want to share resources for articles and tools that have been helping us learn and act at this time. We plan to make on-going posts like this and invite you to send us any resources or books […]
Black Lives Matter. Some truths are so self-evident that having to say them at all seems both inadequate and an indictment. Black lives—Black artists, thinkers, musicians, activists, struggles, and history—pried open the sense of possibility that gave birth to Kaya Press. Without the ideas, example, and radical acts of imagination gifted to us by Black […]
