Women's History Month Profile Roundup
Profiles in order of birth date (couldn't get a birth date on Tina Tchen, so this is my best guess):
- Mary Tape [1]: Chinese American pioneer in school desegregation and visual artist.
- Yuri Kochiyama [2]: Japanese American social justice activist.
- Sugar Pie DeSanto [3]: Multiracial Filipino/African American blues/R&B/soul singer.
- Indra Nooyi [4]: Indian American businesswoman and third most powerful woman in the world.
- Tina Tchen [5]: Chinese American director of Obama's White House Council for Women and Girls.
- Jane Luu [6]: Vietnamese American astronomer and discoverer of the Kuiper Belt.
- Anousheh Ansari [7]: Iranian American entrepreneur and civilian astronaut and first Muslim woman in space.
- Emily Cross [8]: Multiracial Korean/white(?) American foil fencer and Olympic athlete.
Also, poet and blogger Barbara Reyes responded to my request to post links to her own profiles with a linkspost listing her reviews and discussions of Asian American women writers and artists, HERE [9]. (Check her out, she's awrsome.)
And HERE [10], once again, is the link to the Asian Women Blog Carnival call for submissions, which will be taking submissions of posts and online stuff until April 3. I will come back here and link to the carnival itself when it's done. ETA: and here it is [11]! It's an amazing list of essays on all kinds of topics -- no, it's not just stuff about identity and cultural appropriation, although there's plenty of that. Check it out!
Thanks for reading!