What picketing taught me about feminism
Salon.com, 8/16/2013 No one person makes a picket line, but by showing up, I can take its number from 37 to 38 or from 999 to 1000. No one voice creates a roar, but by chanting, I can amplify the...
View ArticleAmerica’s “reality” is white and male
Salon.com, 9/19/2013 The media has reacted to Julie Chen’s revelation that she underwent “double eyelid surgery” twenty-five years ago with the same discomfort most of us probably have when imagining a...
View ArticleHow Richard Cohen’s racism hurts biracial families like mine
Salon.com, 11/14/2013 When was the last time you gagged? When was the last time your throat restricted involuntarily, the muscles contracting to forcibly expel a foreign object? Was it a fishbone? A...
View ArticleWhen companies break the law and people pay: The scary lesson of the Google Bus
Salon.com, 1/23/2014 This is the contradiction of the Google Bus, and it’s one that should resonate across the country. The Google Bus is the embodiment of a system that indemnifies the actions of...
View Article“He got people singing”: Remembering Pete Seeger with my dad
Salon.com, 1/29/2014 “Those songs brought together the movement. Those songs brought together the Chinese from California and the Latinos from Mexico and the African-Americans from the South – the...
View ArticleTech’s “feel-good” promises: Why Silicon Valley’s charity isn’t enough
Salon.com, 2/19/2014 Will the smartest guys in the room follow the lead of activists in the street? Will they throw their considerable money and resources behind the policy proposals coming out of...
View Article“Does your oppression look good on me?”: It’s time to stop playing dress-up...
3/4/2015, Salon It’s been more than 50 years since the white journalist John Howard Griffin medically darkened his skin and embarked on a tour through the Deep South pretending to be black (a tale he...
View ArticleSilicon Valley’s low-wage mess: How Apple was forced to revamp its...
3/5/2015, Salon Labor activists were planning a rude welcome for the select few invited to the launch of Apple’s highly anticipated smartwatch in San Francisco on Monday, March 9. Protesters from...
View ArticleBe on the same team as LeBron James!: Sheryl Sandberg’s hollow Lean In...
3/5/2015, Salon Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In campaign is back in the news today, with a shiny new Web campaign called #LeanInTogether and a New York Times opinion piece explaining “How Men Can Succeed in...
View Article“Which side are you on?”: #Asians4BlackLives confronts anti-black prejudice...
3/8/2015, Salon Little red envelopes are ubiquitous in Asian communities during Lunar New Year. Often stuffed with a crisp dollar bill or two, the envelopes are exchanged between family members,...
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