8 Asians

Here’s a SuperBowl commercial that annoyed me, courtesy of Doritos. In this ad, some guys in a gym take Doritos from samurai– and suffer the consequences!!!111!!1 OMGLOLWTFBBQ! This ad was popular enough that it ranked in the Top 20 of the USA Today Super Bowl Ads Meter. (This was one of [...]

RAMA is putting on the Bay Area’s first locally produced, large scale, APIA variety concert extravaganza! GO!STYLE 2010 will be hosted by comedians Ali Wong and Sheng Wang, headlined by Hip Hop duo Magnetic North, and will feature singer/songwriter Goh Nakamura and R&B/Pop sensation Michelle Martinez. Other artists include Tongan poet sisters Loa & Fuifui Niumeitolu and dance performances by The Odds (of Funkbrella dance) and Tattva. GO!STYLE is produced by local organizations and featur…

The Bloggies are the web’s longest-running non-profit, reader voted weblog awards. It’s like the Oscars for bloggers, but with no golden statue at the end. And like the Oscars, it’s an honor just to be nominated!
For the second year in a row, 8Asians is one of the five finalists for Best Group Blog [...]

In celebration of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month 2010 and to generate funding for materials and sources for Asian American Studies collections at the Purdue University and Indiana University libraries, Kate Agathon is teaming up with the Asian American Network of Indiana (AANI) to sponsor a fundraising installation/exhibition of donated art addressing identity and experience [...]

If you’ve been to as many weddings as I have, then you’ve also received your fair share of “Save the Date” notices. Though I’ve seen some really creative ones cross my desk, I’ve never seen a “Save the Date” as EPIC as Jeff & Erin’s!
Jeff Wong & Erin Martin met while they [...]

In 1995, one of the most shocking cases of modern day slavery unfolded in Los Angeles’ backyard. 72 garment workers were discovered in an El Monte compound living in captivity and under squalid conditions, producing clothing for such major labels as Anchor Blue, Clio, and B.U.M. A majority of these garment workers were [...]

If you’ve been on Facebook in the last couple of months, then you might have been inundated with requests to vote in Chase’s Community Giving Facebook Campaign. With financial resources drying up for many organizations, this campaign has been a rare opportunity for non-profit orgs to come by cold, hard cash by simply leveraging [...]

The Center for the Pacific Asian Family is a non profit organization that seeks to prevent and end domestic violence within the API community, which has some of the most common cases, but are the least vocal about it. This shouldn’t be happening.
CPAF is now part of a major Chase Community Giving Contest on Facebook, [...]