Letter to Editor at Hyphen

Dear Harry,

I really enjoyed reading my two issues of Hyphen magazine. I never knew that there was a magazine that was just focused on Asian Americans. I thought it was a little bit weird that in our class and the day you came to it, no one explained to us why the name of the magazine was called Hyphen. This is just an educated guess i am making about the origins of the magazine's name, but would it happen to be called this because of the "hyphen" in the word "Asian - American", "Chinese - American", "Japanese - American", "Korean - American, and etc. This magazine is a way to show everyone that we are more than just one label such as "Asian" or "American", but rather a mix of the two. Many people in society tend to just group people all together into one category, but we have to enforce the "hyphen" to let people know that we just don't fall into the "Asian" category.

I really enjoyed the article called "Good Asian Drivers". This article really caught my attention because I myself am part of a Queer Asian club on campus. I was not expecting for there to be an article about Queer Asians, seeing as Queer Asian community is practically non- existent. I really enjoyed how the two artists in the article used humor to help combat negative stereotypes. This is a really good idea and I will use it to help my group's cause on campus. I am really glad to see that there are other Queer Asians trying to create awareness for themselves and others around them. I found the article to be very inspiring, it serves as a reminder to keep fighting for my groups cause.

Sincerely,
Albert Dang