Author: Feminist Asian Dad

A Fun (and Kinda Deep) Convo with My Teen Daughters about “KPop Demon Hunters”

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This transcript of my conversation with my daughters has been edited for length, clarity, and many uses of the word “like” – of which there are still almost 50 occurrences. Here’s a key to the abbreviations:

FAD = me, Feminist Asian Dad. 

JJ = my older daughter, a college sophomore. I call her JJ here because in Mandarin Chinese, 姐姐 (Jiě Jie) means “big sister.” 

MM = my younger daughter, a high school junior. I call her MM here because 妹妹 (Mèi Mei) means “little sister.” 

WARNING: Major spoilers for the Netflix movie KPop Demon Hunters follow.

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The Government’s Defunding My Beloved Public Radio Station Hurts.

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As many of you know, I have been involved in several ways over the last ten years with the largest of Southern California’s local public radio stations – 89.3 FM KPCC, now known as the multi-platform news outlet LAist. I am absolutely gutted by the presidential and congressional actions to take back previously approved monies to fund public media, including LAist, National Public Radio (NPR), and the Public Broadcasting System (PBS). It is a devastating blow that will force numerous layoffs nationwide and make thoughtful reporting and useful programming in the radio, television, and online spheres even more rare than it is now.

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“Alligator Alcatraz” Echoes Angel Island

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“Alligator Alcatraz,” as a grotesquely flippant nickname for a Florida incarceration camp, makes light of what will happen to the people there. It’s really an inaccurate comparison as well, since Alcatraz was a max-security prison for America’s most violent, already-convicted criminals. The more accurate comparison would be with Alcatraz’s neighbor in San Francisco Bay, Angel Island, just two miles away. Like Alcatraz, Angel Island is surrounded by cold, shark-infested waters. Unlike Alcatraz, it was, from 1910-1940, a federal immigration station that processed 550,000 travelers to the U.S.

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