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Firstly, I'd come across this magazine I'd prolly seen a thousand times as I flyer the city. Its gravity, the Columbia College magazine. But this time I notice that on the cover is Jenny Choi and Yoko Noge. Two of the greatest Asian American female inspirations to my writing and music. Here's a great article about them. You can download a Jenny Choi song from that site as well.

I'd come across some interesting essays I'd written in college about the entire submissive, passive, exotic myths of AA women. Man, I can understand why my sister believed that I was getting racist... But its true perceptions from experiences from my part. Its weird that I joke about it now but the issue of mail order brides used to get me raging to tears...

And came across a wonderful collection of short stories/eloquent five chapters: When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka. Reminds me very much of the collection Seventeen Syllables by Hisaye Yamamoto. While Yamamoto 's prose describes interesting recollections of life in the Japanese internment camps, I think Otsuka, by using different aspects of one Japanese American family gives, in a beautiful little package, all the stories I'd ever read about the camps. Its a quick read, folks. Educational and insightful readings of an incident in American history that was never included in my high school textbook.