Media Subcommittee

Book Club / Movies/ Music Appreciation

Massie Ballon & Lida Gifford, Co-Chairs

UPCOMING EVENT

Oct | Book Club.  Our next book club meeting is planned for October, which is Filipino American History Month. We will discuss Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen, by Jose Antonio Vargas. See API ERG Calendar for Zoom link. 

Previous Book Club Selections

Yellowface by R.F. Kuang Two authors, June Hayward and Athena Liu, were both on their way up in the literary world, but Athena was getting more attention. When Athena unexpectedly dies, her friend steals the manuscript for Athena’s experimental novel about the unsung contributions of Chinese laborers during World War I. June then creates the persona of Juniper Song, misrepresenting herself as the Asian American author of Athena’s novel. 

“Fairest,” said author and artist Meredith Talusan (she/they), is a memoir that “allows me to look at the entirety of my life and understand how I moved through the world in this body over the years.”  Fairest is Talusan’s story and her journey from being a “sun child” in the Philippines to a transgender, white-passing, Harvard-educated immigrant and journalist.                                                                                                                                     ** A joint book club selection with the Lambda Alliance ERG.

Crying in H Mart a 2021 memoir by Michelle Zauner, a Korean American who grew up in Oregon and when she was a young adult, used Korean cooking as a way to cope with the grief of losing her mother to cancer.

They Called Us Enemy written by George Takei, Justin Eisinger, and Steven Scott; illustrated by Harmony Becker.  This graphic memoir recounts actor/author/activist George Takei's childhood imprisoned within American concentration camps during World War II.