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Severance by Ling Ma: A Book Review
A Post-Apocalyptic, Hilarious, Heartwarming Take on Separation and Belonging
By Kevin Hu

I don’t read dystopias. Not until now, that is. It might be because dystopias can be too grim or too cynical. I’ve heard from way too many people that after the election, they’ve foregone reading dystopian novels because it is just too real. And it’s true; there is already too much death around us.

The Latest in Print

Issue 63: Perspectives

In this issue, we consider how different perspectives shape how we understand the world around us. These various frameworks show us how all the parts — the stories we tell — are what make up the story itself.

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This is My Body
Trauma, Food, and the Eucharist as Ancestor Worship
By Nate Lee

Though I spent a lot of time under her care, my Pau Pau and I didn’t speak much. Our exchanges were generally limited to one-way admonitions in her native Toisanese. Hehk fahn was her most common invitation — “It’s time to eat.”

Folding Dumplings, Unfolding Grief
By Marsha Ungchusri

One stormy afternoon, Auntie sat with me at our kitchen table. I was in third grade and wildly enthusiastic about everything origami, eager to show off my crane-folding skills. Relieved at a low-key activity to partake in, my bookish Auntie started to fold a paper boat for my cranes to ride in.

Proximity to Whiteness is a Lie
The Role of Asian American Churches in Affirmative Action
By Jonathon Sun

Asian Americans have been brought to the forefront of the news because of Harvard’s Affirmative Action case and the Asian American community has been divided about how to approach the issue. Some groups argue that Asian Americans have been systematically discriminated against because of racial quotas.

Bruised but not Broken

Tales of a Korean Immigrant Church

By Dae Shik Kim Hawkins Jr. and Joseph Yoo

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Rachel Held Evans and a Whole Climate of Opinion
By Kenji Kuramitsu

Rachel Held Evans (1981-2019) would have had just the right words for a time like this. Her death is doubly cruel in robbing us of one of our foremost poet-theologians, one who could gaze into deep voids and tremendous griefs and from them craft creeds that could breathe for us when we could not. Rachel exuded an incredible influence on contemporary Christian belief and practice.

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Asian American Liberation Theology
A Past We Never Knew Was Ours
By Wong Tian An

A few months ago, I became Asian American. Demographically speaking, that is. I received a green card to Trump’s U.S. From Malaysia, I landed at JFK airport in New York City in late 2018, having left it when it was Obama’s U.S. in 2016. Back then, you needed finer theoretical tools like postcolonialism to pull back the curtain on U.S. empire and critical race theory to pick apart layers of oppression.

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We Can't Hear You!
White Supremacy, White Complicity, and the Killing Fields They Create
By Pausa Kaio Thompson

When asked by a reporter in the aftermath of the Christchurch massacre: “Do you see, today, white nationalism as a rising threat around the world?” Donald Trump responded: “I don’t, really."