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While most have a basic familiarity with the animals of the Lunar New Year, there are a number of nuances and stories associated with the zodiac that many don't know. Let's jump right in!
Read More >>February in the JA community is filled by two major holidays: Day of Remembrance and Valentine’s Day. Let's honor both by re-evaluating how we look at gender, pronouns, love, and identity with our youth.
Read More >>Henry Golding, Sung Kang, Simu Liu, and Jimmy O. Yang are the next wave of optics/progression with representation for Asian American/Asian men. Their charm, humble mindset, fists, and not to mention six-packs are awe-inspiring and perhaps even redefining Asian male masculinity.
Read More >>With just a few tips, you can enhance your local grocery store flowers (or flowers picked from your backyard) into a thoughtful arrangement that will reflect your true feelings.
Read More >>It’s hard to explain why working with JAS is so important to me. Showing up in action and solidarity with love for our community and a revolutionary vision for the future just feels like the right—and sometimes the only—thing to do.
Read More >>Add these iconic Little Tokyo spots to your date-rotation. Bonus points if you hit them all in one go!
Read More >>Through a friend of a friend. Isn't that how most people meet their significant others?
Read More >>We love and appreciate our families, but as Japanese Americans, it can be hard to verbalize our feelings.
Read More >>Mental health and therapy have always been taboo topics within the Asian American community. But, if we’re able to move past that stigma, therapy can be a life-changing, super-charged version of self-care.
Read More >>The Sansei dances that many Japanese American parents in Southern California enjoy today hark back to a period in the 1960s and 1970s known as the Los Angeles Asian American dance scene.
Read More >>There can be consequences to dating within the JA community if things go poorly, but it may just be a risk worth taking.
Read More >>Breaking up is hard to do. Relive the past with us as we share the floundering routines we used to do post-relationship.
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