I’m not Asian American. I’m not even American. I did however bust a gut laughing when I read your mission statement-type-thing and am now angling to find more. One day, I’ll actually go to the States and get hold of a copy and all will be well.

Kat Brown
London, England

POWER TO THE PEOPLE

As a subscriber of Hyphen, I wanted to say thanks for creating a solid and fantastic mag. It’s always empowering to see Asian American images and stories captured through our own lenses and voices.

Paul Dien
New York, NY

YOU'RE WELCOME

Thanks for another great issue! I really enjoyed the piece on Kenji Yoshino—I found his concept of “covering” to be an interesting and useful articulation of the conflict between personal identity and the public eye. The interview with Mike Shinoda almost made me want to give Linkin Park a second chance. Even the article about that annoying comedian Chinaman was interesting because it reminded me of how I coped with being identified as Asian in middle school (but why did he get two pages while three much more interesting comics got only one each)?

Reading Hyphen has been helping me continuously re-conceptualize Asian American identity. Thank you and keep up the good work.

Alex Kondo
Oberlin, OH

OOPS, WE DID IT AGAIN

Calvin Shih’s name was misspelled on the contributors page of Issue 9. Calvin wrote the profile about badminton player Howard Bach. Sorry about that, Calvin!

IN CASE YOU WERE WONDERING

In Issue 9, we talked to artist Michael Arcega in “All Puns Intended.” The accompanying photograph of Arcega was taken by P.G. Rafanan on location at Heather Marx Gallery in San Francisco.

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