It’s hard to believe that a year ago, Generasian was nothing more than a stack of three year-old magazines in a cabinet. In 10 months, we’ve had over 5000 people viewing our blog 16,000 times and gained over 160 faithful followers. With a fresh new look for our blog and new Facebook page, we’re moving forward and solidifying our identity. The new blog theme aims to bring you more of the same great content in a more fluid format. Please enjoy!
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The latest issue of our magazine is now available online! If you didn’t have a chance to pick up a hard copy at our launch party last week, there are many on the seventh floor of Kimmel.
What does it mean to be you? NYU students look beyond ethnicity to explore personal struggles of gender and social values.
Dear amazing readers,
Editor-in-Chief here from NYU Generasian Magazine! We here at the magazine group need your help!
We are conducting several polls geared towards the Asian / Asian American community that will be part of our fresh new magazine issue this upcoming December. We’d love for you to take barely 60 seconds of your precious time to fill these out!
Please also feel free to leave a comment with your name and email address, which may end up being published as quotes in our magazine.
2. Do you think it’s a good idea for Facebook to allow users to see who has visited their profiles?
4. For Halloween, do you think it’s okay to dress up as a figure of another ethnic background?
Also, if you wouldn’t mind re-posting this on your blogs to encourage your fellow peers to fill out these surveys, that would be a tremendous help. The more numbers we get, the better we can analyze the issues brought up from these questions! Thank you and please feel free to contact us at nyu.generasian@gmail.com if you have any questions!
Best,
Michelle, Editor-in-Chief
Zi, Poll-Maker
Food and drinks will be provided, but more importantly, we will be distributing our long-anticipated Fall 2011 issue, hot off the press! Our new issue explores topics such as who you would root for at the FIFA World Cup, what it’s like to be biracial, “RenRen” (China’s Facebook?!), in addition to some exclusive interviews with AZIATIX and JOHN CHO & KAL PENN of A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas… and more!
We have also invited three special guest speakers who work in media, marketing, journalism, and the entertainment industry to talk to us about what it’s like working in these industries. Telly Wong and Ellie Lee of IW Group, Inc., an Asian American marketing agency, will join us to discuss working in their media, marketing and entertainment fields. Fashion reporter David Yi of New York Daily News will speak about what it’s like being a fashion journalist for a prominent New York news agency! See below for bios.
We’d love to see you there, especially if you’ve contributed to our magazine or have been featured! (Even if you did our polls =) you participated!). Peruse through our old issue by clicking Magazine on the top of our Tumblr.
We hope you can make it and if you can, the address to the venue is 60 Washington Square South, Kimmel Student Center (a great big glass building) and the room number is #905, mention to security you are there for Generasian’s Launch Party in #905. Please RSVP here at this Facebook event page.
Thanks for all your support!
Bios:
Telly Wong is the Account Director at IW Group, an award-winning advertising agency specializing in the Asian American market, where he creates marketing and public relations campaigns for Warner Bros. Pictures and McDonald’s. With over a decade of experience, Telly has worked with such clients as Sony, Siemens, Olympus and Miramax Films. In 2004, he was hand-picked by the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation and September 11th Fund to oversee a multi-million dollar tourism marketing program for New York City’s Chinatown, which resulted in the community’s first-ever local development corporation. In addition to his corporate credentials, Telly’s other credits include serving as a writer for acclaimed filmmaker Wong Kar Wai and co-producing the award-winning Sundance Film “Year of the Fish.” A graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, Telly has been profiled in the New York Times and MTV.
Generasian is an Asian American Interest Magazine club at New York University with a mission to unify and represent the diverse population of Asian American students across campus, by providing a common forum through which they can be kept informed about social, political, and cultural activities at NYU, as well as those off-campus. We provide the forum for students’ expression, regarding their own thoughts and matters of interest to the student body, especially for Asian American students.
Missed Generasian’s Fall 2015 launch party? The latest issue of our magazine is now available to read online! Or if you would like a physical copy, pick one up from the 7th floor of NYU Kimmel Student Center!
Voices (Fall 2015)
In this issue, we present a collection of pieces, both written and illustrated, that demonstrate the diversity of voices that comprise the Asian American community.
A warm wish for a happy 2014 from Evelyn and Cat, Generasian’s editor-in-chief and editor-at-large, respectively, and the rest of our staff!
These past few years, we at Generasian have managed to accomplish incredible things–all with the love and support of you readers. Coming back from a hiatus is never easy for any publication, and though NYU has a healthy, growing population of Asian and Asian American students, our beginnings were modest. We went from a gathering of fewer than 10 to a dedicated organization of more than 30 officers and general staff, and countless supporters online. When our founders and resurrectors first brought us back nearly three years ago, they blazed forward with a vision. Our successive editor-in-chiefs took that vision and made it their own, hand-crafting Generasian into what we are today. This year, Evelyn and I (Cat) have been charged with taking up the mantle and really defining what Generasian is and hopes to be.
Our generation of Asian Americans has taken the impetus from the leaders of our past and infused it with our own passion and energy, truly taking the world by storm. We have a voice that will not be quieted, a mark that will be made, a potential to take a stand for what we believe in. So as the representatives for Generasian this year, we urge you all to let your voice be heard.
We have a big dream, Evelyn and I. The unofficial hub of Asian American interests lies across the US, seated firmly in California. Wong Fu Productions, Angry Asian Man, and many other Asian American media superstars and voices hail from The Golden State. But we here in New York, on the East Coast, have a lot to say as well. Though the internet and social media draw the world in ever tighter, even blurring state lines, Generasian seeks to be an integral gear in the machinery for Asian American representation on this side of the United States.
Though our physical magazine can really only be picked up at NYU, our audience spans the globe, and we know that–that’s why we’ve put our magazine on the web for everyone to peruse and enjoy. To our magazine and blog readers, we thank you from the bottom of our hearts for liking, for reposting, for subscribing, for commenting–for participating in the open discussion of our futures.
Thank you for making 2013 unforgettable. Here’s to making 2014 equally as memorable. Happy New Year, everyone.
Forever yours,
NYU Generasian
Evelyn & Cat
Hey all,
We have not been posting much lately as we have been hard at work on our magazine! We are so proud of our writers, artists and the layout team. I strongly encourage everyone to take a look!
The content on the magazine is a tad longer than the content on the blog, but there are art pieces to help break it up. The theme of the magazine this year is Horizons.
Thank you so much for all your support :’)
Come see the Generasian table at NYU’s Spring 2016 Club Fest right now on the 10th floor of Kimmel ! We’ll be here until 7PM!
Hope to see you soon :)
Angry Asian Man (and his blog) need our support! For years, Angry Asian Man has been the voice and provider of news for Asian Americans everywhere–it’s time we gave back to the inspiring one-man-plus team that is Phil Yu. Generasian supports Phil Yu and the Angry Asian Man blog, and you can too, by reblogging and donating here.
Missed Generasian’s launch party? Pick up a copy of our latest issue from the 7th floor of NYU Kimmel Student Center or read it online!
Definition (Fall 2013)
Read the voices of NYU students from their take on the “Model Minority” stereotype to Ramen Reviews!
So, the 60th Annual Grammy Nominations were announced yesterday morning, and somehow it left me with more mixed emotions than I’ve felt in a long time. On the one hand, we have many reasons to celebrate this year–the 2018 list of nominees is the most diverse group in all of Grammy history, especially when it comes to Black and LGBTQIA inclusion. Jay-Z, Childish Gambino, Kendrick Lamar, and more were all (deservedly) nominated for record of the year. Kesha and Lady Gaga were both nominated for two Grammys each, and out songwriter Justin Tranter was nominated for his first award as well.
When it comes to inclusion in the entertainment industry, we’ve come a long way, and these nominees are just one example of that. Unfortunately, this progress has not been reflected within the Asian American community, as you can clearly see by the lack of Asian nominees for the 2018 Grammys. I can’t say I’m surprised, considering there aren’t really any huge Asian American names in the music industry. But it’s not because we’re not trying–it’s because those who run the system aren’t listening. This year I got the chance to discover Alice Gao, Niki Zefanya, Yaeji, and several other incredible Asian artists whose music deserves recognition–but none of them are getting the attention they deserve.
While Grammy nomination entries can by submitted by any artists/record companies with commercially released music, all submissions are reviewed by a group of over 350 experts in the fields of jazz, R&B, rock, classical, new age, and more. These experts within the Academy go through several rounds of screening, being advised to vote in up to 15 categories in their areas of expertise as well as the 4 general categories (Record of The Year, Album of the Year, Song of The Year, and Best New Artist). Unfortunately, if you are a lesser known artist in the US (aka most Asian American artists) signed to a label with more well known artists, your label will most likely submit their song/album to be considered for Grammy nomination over yours. At the end of the day, it’s pretty much a self fulfilling prophesy. Since Asian American artists are almost never well known enough to qualify for the final rounds of nomination, their work is not often submitted. As a result, Asian Americans are continuously left out of the mainstream. The whole thing is a cycle that seems to have no end.
Don’t get me wrong, I believe we should celebrate the victories we achieve, but I’m honestly so tired of writing and complaining about Asian American representation. You guys have heard it all before and I’m not here to preach the same message all over again, but my soul is tired y’all. While we should celebrate and cheer on our fellow POC, let’s remember that the entertainment industry is still far, far, from being the all inclusive community that we so desperately need.
