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"content": "\u003cp>On a recent evening, 10-year-old Katie Noriega and her mom snuggled up together to read a story at their home in San José. The bilingual book in Spanish and English they dove into, “\u003ca href=\"https://www.forall-paratodos.net/\">Para Todos/For All\u003c/a>,” by Bay Area-based author Alejandra Domenzain, tells the story of the struggles of a young girl named Flor and her father, who are forced to flee their homeland and look for opportunity in a new country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“‘Are we going to the land that we see on TV? Will we fly in a plane? Will there be more toys for me?’” Katie read aloud to her mom. “‘Her dad forced a smile and put on a brave face. It won’t be so easy to get to that place.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Katie’s mom, Rocio Gonzalez, read the same lines, in Spanish:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“‘¿Vamos a ese lugar que vemos en la tele? ¿Iremos en avión? ¿Tendré muchos juguetes? Su papa sonrió a medias y se armó de valor. No será fácil llegar.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11907427\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 357px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11907427\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54107_Cover-with-logo-10_26-qut-800x1002.jpg\" alt=\"A children's book cover: "For All/Para Todos"\" width=\"357\" height=\"447\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54107_Cover-with-logo-10_26-qut-800x1002.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54107_Cover-with-logo-10_26-qut-1020x1277.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54107_Cover-with-logo-10_26-qut-160x200.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54107_Cover-with-logo-10_26-qut-1227x1536.jpg 1227w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54107_Cover-with-logo-10_26-qut.jpg 1617w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 357px) 100vw, 357px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The cover of ‘Para Todos/For All,’ a bilingual book by Alejandra Domenzain, with illustrations by Katherine Loh. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Hard Ball Press)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Katie has lived in the U.S. her entire life. She understands Spanish and speaks it a little bit, but feels more comfortable reading in English. The opposite is true for Rocio, who spent her formative years in Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though they’re reading in different languages, Katie and Rocio said they get a lot out of reading this book together. Katie responded to Flor’s courage and tenacity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think she’s a strong person because she never gave up,” Katie said. “She just kept going.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rocio said books like “Para Todos” help connect the dots between what she has — and has not — yet told her daughter about her own complex immigration journey, when she moved to California from Jalisco, Mexico, in her late teens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By bringing in these types of books, we can connect them with what we’ve already talked — or not talked — about regarding our own journeys,” Rocio said in Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Heard and validated’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A growing number of children’s book authors and literacy activists have been pushing for more bilingual books for kids, like “Para Todos.” That objective resonates with many bilingual households, particularly in California, where more than a quarter of residents speak Spanish as a first language.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A number of academic studies in recent years have shown that \u003ca href=\"https://scholarship.depauw.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1078&context=studentresearch\">bilingual books help improve literacy levels\u003c/a> among immigrant families where English is not spoken at home, especially when the stories highlight diverse characters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Having access to books where you feel represented or you feel heard and validated is a great thing to have at such a young age,” said Belen Delgado, education policy program associate at the\u003ca href=\"https://doloreshuerta.org/\"> Dolores Huerta Foundation\u003c/a>, a grassroots activism hub with several chapters in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A small but growing number of bilingual children’s titles are taking that model a step further, by not only centering Latinx characters, but also making them powerful agents of change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In “Para Todos,” for instance, the main character, Flor, becomes an immigrant rights activist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not just about, ‘Let’s have diverse characters and diverse stories,’” said author Domenzain, who lives in Foster City. “It’s, ‘Let’s look at the structural systems that are causing the injustice and have on-ramps for young people to question them and know that it’s possible to make structural changes.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Belen Delgado, Dolores Huerta Foundation\"]‘Having access to books where you feel represented or you feel heard and validated is a great thing to have at such a young age.’[/pullquote]Other bilingual children’s book writers agree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ann Berlak is the Oakland-based author of “\u003ca href=\"https://bookshop.org/books/joelito-s-big-decision-la-gran-decision-de-joelito/9780986240096\">La Gran Decisión de Joelito/Joelito’s Big Decision\u003c/a>,” a 2015 book about an 11-year-old boy who must decide whether to eat a hamburger at his favorite restaurant or join his best friend and his friend’s father on the picket line to fight for higher wages for lower-income workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I decided to write ‘Joelito’ as an example of how people can not only know that there’s an alternative, but fight for an alternative,” Berlak said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.monicabrown.net/\">Mónica Brown\u003c/a>, who grew up in the Bay Area, has written a slew of bilingual children’s titles focusing on famous activists from history, including “\u003ca href=\"https://www.harpercollins.com/products/side-by-sidelado-a-lado-monica-brown\">Lado a Lado/Side by Side\u003c/a>,” her book about Dolores Huerta and Cesar Chavez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11907762\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54109_Monica-Brown-with-kids-qut-800x531-1.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11907762 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54109_Monica-Brown-with-kids-qut-800x531-1.jpeg\" alt=\"A woman reads to a group of young children.\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54109_Monica-Brown-with-kids-qut-800x531-1.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54109_Monica-Brown-with-kids-qut-800x531-1-160x106.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Author Mónica Brown reads to a group of children. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Mónica Brown)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“They imagined great things and believed in themselves, and with community support were able to accomplish extraordinary things,” said Brown of her protagonists. “And I want each child to think they can, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Leticia Hernández-Linares’s new book, “\u003ca href=\"https://risehomestories.com/alejandria/home/\">La Lucha de Alejandria!/¡Alejandria Fights Back!\u003c/a>,” tackles the issue of eviction, something the San Francisco mother of two said she once faced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our children — my children — have been and continue to be exposed to these things,” said Hernández-Linares, who wrote the book as part of \u003ca href=\"https://risehomestories.com/\">Rise-Home Stories\u003c/a>, a national storytelling project about housing, land rights and racial justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Teachers and parents have been very grateful and excited about this book as a vehicle to open up discussion around hard things with their kids,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Barriers to access\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Despite the positive reception, it’s been challenging for these authors to get their books into the hands of families that may need them most.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For one thing, there simply aren’t enough of these books available yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to data from the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Education, which tracks diversity in children’s literature, \u003ca href=\"https://ccbc.education.wisc.edu/literature-resources/ccbc-diversity-statistics/books-by-about-poc-fnn/\">books with Latinx protagonists made up only around 7%\u003c/a> of the U.S. children’s book publishing industry last year. There were \u003ca href=\"https://www.slj.com/story/an-updated-look-at-diversity-in-childrens-books\">almost twice as many titles \u003c/a>with Black characters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you go to a progressive bookstore, you’ll see a very small Spanish-language section, then you see a tiny bilingual,” said Timothy Sheard, who runs \u003ca href=\"https://www.hardballpress.com/index.html\">Hard Ball Press\u003c/a>, the small indie publisher of “Para Todos,” “La Gran Decisión de Joelito” and other bilingual social justice books for children. “The bilingual is not as common in bookstores as it could be, given the population.”[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"arts_13900685,arts_13877896,arts_13874840\"]NJ Mvondo is a media diversity advocate who spent years working in an independent bookstore in Palo Alto, before founding\u003ca href=\"https://multiculturalism.rocks/author/multiculturalismrocks/\"> Multiculturalism Rocks\u003c/a>, an online platform that advocates for cultural diversity in media, especially in children’s content.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Something I observed was that many families came in asking for these books, and they had trouble finding them,” she said. “But when these books would be on the floor, they would sell quickly. They would usually sell out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And when bookstores do stock these books, an added barrier is their cost, Mvondo noted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of the families that really need those books don’t have enough of a budget for them,” she said. “They’re focused on buying food, paying rent and taking the kids to school and all that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many libraries also are struggling to acquire bilingual children’s books.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People see a book and they’re like, ‘Well, I saw it on Amazon. How come you can’t just order it?’ And we really wish it was that easy,” said Elizabeth Perez, a children’s librarian at San Francisco Public Library.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most bilingual titles are self-published or put out by indie presses, Perez said, which makes them hard to find on the approved-vendor lists the library uses to purchase books.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes our own hands are tied,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Changing times \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It doesn’t help matters that California voters in 1986\u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_63,_English_is_the_Official_Language_Amendment_(1986)\"> declared English the state’s “official language”\u003c/a> with the overwhelming passage of Proposition 63. That was followed 12 years later by \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/ballot/1998/227_06_1998.htm#:~:text=This%20proposition%20significantly%20changes%20the,bilingual%22%20classes%20in%20most%20cases.\">Proposition 227\u003c/a>, which significantly restricted bilingual education in the state’s public schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, since Prop 227’s repeal in 2016, the California Department of Education has worked to increase\u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2021/california-bilingual-programs-ready-to-grow-after-slowing-during-pandemic/655455#:~:text=Under%20the%20California%20Department%20of,or%20more%20languages%20by%202040.\"> bilingual programs\u003c/a>. Mvondo said together with this effort, she’s starting to see more bilingual titles with diverse protagonists addressing social justice themes. “It’s growing,” she said. “The No. 1 factor has been mobilization from children’s authors, illustrators and publishers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11907764\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 692px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Picture4.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11907764 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Picture4.jpg\" alt=\"A woman reads a storybook to a large classroom of young children.\" width=\"692\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Picture4.jpg 692w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Picture4-160x124.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 692px) 100vw, 692px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A volunteer from the ‘Jeepney of Hope’ project reads a storybook to an elementary school classroom in the Philippines. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Ana Maria Bacudio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She added, “These books for kids are one of those very rare things in literacy that bring a whole family or community together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Inspiring real-world change\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Such is the case with Mónica Brown’s “\u003ca href=\"http://www.monicabrown.net/books/biblioburro.html\">Waiting for the Biblioburro\u003c/a>” — or “Esperando el Biblioburro” — which tells the story of a mobile library that travels throughout rural Colombia bringing books to children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown said she was recently contacted by an educator in the Philippines who was deeply inspired by the story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I read that book, it gave me an idea that I could replicate that,” said Ana Maria Bacudio, a medical technologist in the Philippines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few years ago, Bacudio launched a roving literary service for kids in underserved communities around her country. There are no burros in the Philippines, she said, so she started out on a motorcycle and eventually upgraded to a jeep, calling it the “\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/JeepofHope/\">Jeepney of Hope\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bacudio said her mobile library features many bilingual books on social justice themes. When children from poor, rural communities get their hands on these books, they become aware of their rights, and start to dream, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It brings children joy, the joy of reading,” Bacudio said. “Most of all, it brings them hope.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Thanks to KQED’s Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí for help with translations.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>NJ Mvondo is a media diversity advocate who spent years working in an independent bookstore in Palo Alto, before founding\u003ca href=\"https://multiculturalism.rocks/author/multiculturalismrocks/\"> Multiculturalism Rocks\u003c/a>, an online platform that advocates for cultural diversity in media, especially in children’s content.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Something I observed was that many families came in asking for these books, and they had trouble finding them,” she said. “But when these books would be on the floor, they would sell quickly. They would usually sell out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And when bookstores do stock these books, an added barrier is their cost, Mvondo noted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of the families that really need those books don’t have enough of a budget for them,” she said. “They’re focused on buying food, paying rent and taking the kids to school and all that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many libraries also are struggling to acquire bilingual children’s books.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People see a book and they’re like, ‘Well, I saw it on Amazon. 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There are no burros in the Philippines, she said, so she started out on a motorcycle and eventually upgraded to a jeep, calling it the “\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/JeepofHope/\">Jeepney of Hope\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bacudio said her mobile library features many bilingual books on social justice themes. When children from poor, rural communities get their hands on these books, they become aware of their rights, and start to dream, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It brings children joy, the joy of reading,” Bacudio said. “Most of all, it brings them hope.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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So much of story is about the arc, about the change and the growth within a character. So to me, it seems like a natural fit to write about young adults. I love writing for children who are at a vulnerable time in their life and to write stories that are, in my mind, realistic but that also offer hope. Because as a young person myself, I really, really needed to see hope in the books that I read.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Sabaa Tahir\"]‘I love writing for children who are at a vulnerable time in their life and to write stories that are, in my mind, realistic but that also offer hope.’[/pullquote]I think honesty is really important, showing the messy reality of these kids’ lives, both in the struggle but also in the beauty and in the humor — in allowing for a lack of resolution, or a resolution that is perhaps a little bit more ambiguous. Because the truth is that trauma doesn’t always leave us. We can heal from it. Sometimes we can shed it, but not always. 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There are so many wonderful books out in the world right now. There’s so much fantastic music that’s being created.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I also take great joy from the young people in my own life. I’ve been so amazed by my kids and my nieces and nephews. Their positivity despite everything they’ve gone through in the past two years. How laughter is something that is just a part of their daily, hourly, a part of their life. There are times when I’m stressing over something, and in the background, I will hear my kids just busting up over something ridiculous. And it’s just this wonderful reminder to get out of my head and to put away some of these worries and to just let myself laugh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s also a part of “All My Rage,” that there is so much hope there. There is humor. 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"content": "\u003cp>On a recent sunny Saturday morning, children and parents filed into the Yau Kung Moon School in San Francisco’s Chinatown to practice their martial arts techniques, train with traditional weapons and practice lion dancing ahead of their performance in this weekend’s \u003ca href=\"https://chineseparade.com/\">Chinese New Year Parade on Feb. 19\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Yau Kung Moon School — named for the southern Shaolin kung fu style it teaches — has a practice room in a building on Waverly Place just off Clay Street filled with trophies, honors and banners. Spears, staffs and swords are placed neatly in the corner behind the yellow-and-red-colored dragon costumes the school is known for. Performers wear yellow shirts, yellow pants, a red sash and traditional, striped red-and-gold leggings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Led by Richard Ow (referred to as “sifu,” meaning teacher), students learn the fundamentals of the Yau Kung Moon style, and the Nam Si Buk Mo lion dance style. Ow currently teaches 50 students and has trained 300 students since he became a sifu in 2000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Sifu Richard Ow, Yau Kung Moon School\"]‘The Lunar New Year parade is about bringing out positivity and hope for community. We bring in members that have been with us for 22 years, and it’s like a family gathering again.’[/pullquote]“Sifu has a more in-depth meaning than ‘teacher,’” said Ow. “So first it’s like a coach. There’s a Chinese saying: ‘The student will watch the teacher and the teacher will watch the student.’ You’ll see in three to six years if the student is dedicated or worth your time. In the old-school way of thinking, the sifu doesn’t waste time. They let their younger instructors teach.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school has been in San Francisco for more than 50 years, and has participated in 36 Lunar New Year parades. Students’ ages range from 4 to 40 years old. The youngest students and beginners will march in the New Year parade, while students who have practiced kung fu will perform short sets for the crowd. Intermediate and advanced students will perform the lion dancing and help the younger students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11904684\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11904684\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53565_004_SanFrancisco_YauKungMoonPractice_01292022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Kung fu instructor holds blocking pad while young girl student punches inside a kung fu studio\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53565_004_SanFrancisco_YauKungMoonPractice_01292022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53565_004_SanFrancisco_YauKungMoonPractice_01292022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53565_004_SanFrancisco_YauKungMoonPractice_01292022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53565_004_SanFrancisco_YauKungMoonPractice_01292022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53565_004_SanFrancisco_YauKungMoonPractice_01292022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Richard Ow teaches a beginners martial arts class at Yau Kung Moon, a southern Shaolin kung fu studio, in Chinatown, San Francisco, on Jan. 29, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ow was born and raised in San Francisco in a traditional Chinese household.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My dad had a bakery on Washington Street in Chinatown and would work for over 12 hours regularly,” he said. “My sisters and I also helped with the business.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ow remembers vendors putting posters of martial arts movies on the window of the bakery and handing his father free movie tickets. His father would take him to see the films, and Ow grew up idolizing martial artists like Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Growing up, I was a skinny, weak kid so the films were a big inspiration,” said Ow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Ow was 11 years old, his father’s friend recommended taking him to visit the Yau Kung Moon School. Ow instantly fell in love with the school and became a devoted student who prided himself on being the first one to practice and the last one to leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He studied under Sifu Lok Sang Lee beginning in 1987, worked hard, and within two years had entered his first national kung fu competition in San Francisco. He won first place using Yau Kung Moon’s broadsword form for short weapons and the “Ying Ching” hand form. By the time he was 15, he was helping to instruct other students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11905615\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11905615\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS53582_025_SanFrancisco_YauKungMoonPractice_01292022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"instructor and student, both wearing masks, practice a hand form with arms symmetrically raised\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS53582_025_SanFrancisco_YauKungMoonPractice_01292022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS53582_025_SanFrancisco_YauKungMoonPractice_01292022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS53582_025_SanFrancisco_YauKungMoonPractice_01292022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS53582_025_SanFrancisco_YauKungMoonPractice_01292022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS53582_025_SanFrancisco_YauKungMoonPractice_01292022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rebecca Lee, 23, a senior instructor, helps Pandora, 9, during an intermediate martial arts class at Yau Kung Moon School in Chinatown on Jan. 29, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘Bringing out positivity and hope for community’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The last Lunar New Year parade took place two years ago, just before the pandemic shut down many activities that would normally be happening throughout the month. This year, excitement has been building as the parade — the biggest Lunar New Year parade outside Asia — prepares to roar back in the Year of the Tiger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Folk dancers, marching bands, stilt walkers and Chinese acrobats will join martial arts schools such as Yau Kung Moon, the Tat Wong Kung Fu Academy and Leung’s White Crane school, which performs at the parade’s finale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Lunar New Year parade is about bringing out positivity and hope for community,” said Ow. “For the performance, we bring in members that have been with us for 22 years, and it’s like a family gathering again. People still come out rain or shine. We represent our community positively in Chinatown.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vincent Lau, a resident of South San Francisco, brought his two children to practice at Yau Kung Moon School on Saturday morning. His children are 8 and 10 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They saw their cousin performing and decided they wanted to give it a try,” said Lau. “They’ve been participating since last year in May.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11905619\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11905619\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/026_KQED_YauKungMoonChinatownPerformance_01302022-1.jpg\" alt=\"young children wearing white Yau Kung Moon shirts and gold leggings with red sashes hold onto a railing while looking toward an outdoor stage\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/026_KQED_YauKungMoonChinatownPerformance_01302022-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/026_KQED_YauKungMoonChinatownPerformance_01302022-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/026_KQED_YauKungMoonChinatownPerformance_01302022-1-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/026_KQED_YauKungMoonChinatownPerformance_01302022-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/026_KQED_YauKungMoonChinatownPerformance_01302022-1-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Young Yau Kung Moon students prepare to take the stage to perform at the Chinese New Year Flower Market Fair in Chinatown, San Francisco, on Jan. 30, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lau has been going to see the Lunar New Year parade for years and would watch it on TV when he got older. He watches his children practice with Ow and commends him for his dedication.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can tell Sifu [Ow] really likes teaching and working with the community,” said Lau.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lau said the decision to get his children involved with the Yau Kung Moon School was partly influenced by news of ongoing violent attacks and hate targeting Asian and Asian American people across the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stop AAPI Hate — a project based out of San Francisco State University that, among other efforts, asks members of Asian American and Pacific Islander communities across the nation to self-report acts of hate and discrimination — \u003ca href=\"https://stopaapihate.org/national-report-through-september-2021/\">found that there were more than 10,000 incidents of anti-Asian hate from March 2020 through September 2021\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://stopaapihate.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/21-SAH-NationalReport2-v2.pdf\">California ranked first out of 20 states\u003c/a> with the largest percentage of hate incident reports at 37.8%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11876061 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48125_003_SanFrancisco_RiseUpRally_03262021-qut-1020x680.jpeg']“My wife has that fear of bad things might happen, and this program is a way to help our kids protect themselves,” said Lau.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brandon Wong, a 25-year-old from Daly City, is one of Yau Kung Moon School’s senior instructors and has been training and performing since he was in middle school. He’s been working with Sifu Richard Ow for more than 14 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My mother knew one of the instructors and he would see me around town and egged me on to learn,” said Wong. “I decided to give it a try and fell in love with it. I started coming out every Saturday and Sunday to practice. It’s nice to exercise, but learning lion dancing and martial arts helped build my confidence. Learning and practicing with other people from the community was nice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Wong first started practicing, there weren’t as many kids involved, so all the participants (around 20 people) trained together, no matter their skill level. The program has since grown, and classes are now separated by skill level: beginner, intermediate and advanced. Wong has participated in at least 12 parade performances, and he’s also a part of the street fair performances held on Sundays in Chinatown. There’s a stage set up where students are encouraged to perform their moves with a demonstration of fighting techniques using weapons, hand-to-hand combat and lion dancing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11904687\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11904687\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53654_047_SanFrancisco_YauKungMoonPerformance_01302022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"three adult Yau Kung Moon members wearing white shirts with green leggings stand outside near a stage\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53654_047_SanFrancisco_YauKungMoonPerformance_01302022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53654_047_SanFrancisco_YauKungMoonPerformance_01302022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53654_047_SanFrancisco_YauKungMoonPerformance_01302022-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53654_047_SanFrancisco_YauKungMoonPerformance_01302022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53654_047_SanFrancisco_YauKungMoonPerformance_01302022-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Yau Kung Moon lion dance team talks before performing at the Chinese New Year Flower Market Fair in Chinatown, San Francisco, on Jan. 30, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wong remembers the adrenaline rush he felt the first time he performed in the parade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The idea of being on TV as a kid was cool,” said Wong. “Overall, it was a really fun experience. After around three years of performing, my sisters got involved so it became a family thing. My older sister assists with the online classes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the pandemic shut down in-person practice, Ow and his instructors switched to teaching online through Zoom classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We still want to make sure everyone’s comfortable, so we still offer online classes,” said Wong. “Online classes make teaching a little more difficult when there’s only one view from a webcam — and correcting stances, posture and techniques is important.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wong helps out with performances and in-person practice. With a 1-year-old son at home, Wong says his involvement with the program has shifted slightly but he makes time when Ow needs assistance. He helps teach three days a week at every skill level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11905611\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11905611\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS53657_050_SanFrancisco_YauKungMoonPerformance_01302022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"man wearing white and red shirt, traditional bright yellow and red leggings, performs a kung fu form on an outdoor stage\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS53657_050_SanFrancisco_YauKungMoonPerformance_01302022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS53657_050_SanFrancisco_YauKungMoonPerformance_01302022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS53657_050_SanFrancisco_YauKungMoonPerformance_01302022-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS53657_050_SanFrancisco_YauKungMoonPerformance_01302022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS53657_050_SanFrancisco_YauKungMoonPerformance_01302022-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brandon Wong, 25, a senior instructor at Yau Kung Moon, performs at the Chinese New Year Flower Market Fair in Chinatown, San Francisco, on Jan. 30, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ow implemented a new system of distinguishing different skill levels by introducing colored sashes to his students modeled after the colors used in the Chinese zodiac. There are 10 levels and colors; beginners wear gray sashes around their waists and work their way up to red sashes, which instructors wear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the old-school way, there wasn’t this type of structured system and there was no way for students to gauge how they were improving,” said Ow. “Now, it’s set up for a student to be able to learn the system and pass it on to future generations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Rebecca Lee, senior instructor, Yau Kung Moon School\"]‘It was captivating to see the costumes and how people were able to move the lion’s head in such a way that it looked realistic.’[/pullquote]Yau Kung Moon was introduced to the public in China in 1924 by founding Grandmaster Ha Han Hong — but its rich history extends back to the Tang dynasty. Ha was taught by a Shaolin monk and began establishing schools at the monk’s request. Prior to that, the style was primarily practiced in secret at southern Shaolin temples and villages, with monks selecting one worthy disciple to teach and pass along to the next generation. Much of the history of Yau Kung Moon was kept alive through word of mouth rather than written texts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wong says while everyone comes into practice at different skill levels, it took him about a year of practice before he started performing. His first performance was lion dancing at the Chinatown weekend street fair. Being in sync and practicing with a partner takes time and at least a few years of practice, depending on the complexity of the performance, Wong said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rebecca Lee started coming to the Yau Kung Moon school when she was 6 years old. She remembers being excited to see the lion dance performances and people practicing kung fu.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was captivating to see the costumes and how people were able to move the lion’s head in such a way that it looked realistic,” said Lee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11904685\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53569_007_SanFrancisco_YauKungMoonPractice_01292022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11904685\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53569_007_SanFrancisco_YauKungMoonPractice_01292022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53569_007_SanFrancisco_YauKungMoonPractice_01292022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53569_007_SanFrancisco_YauKungMoonPractice_01292022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53569_007_SanFrancisco_YauKungMoonPractice_01292022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53569_007_SanFrancisco_YauKungMoonPractice_01292022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53569_007_SanFrancisco_YauKungMoonPractice_01292022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rebecca Lee, 23, a senior instructor, helps students practice martial arts during a beginner class at Yau Kung Moon, a southern Shaolin kung fu studio, in Chinatown, San Francisco, on Jan. 29, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lee’s father brought her to the school one day, and after some convincing, she agreed to join and start learning. Lee is now 23 and has been a senior instructor since 2016. She primarily helps the younger children who need more assistance with their coordination and fundamentals. Lee said she’s glad to see more women getting involved in what’s been seen as a male-dominated activity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Yau Kung Moon School has a great reputation among other martial arts schools as being strong competitors and among the community at large for their performances. Ow encourages people who aren’t familiar with the Lunar New Year holiday to participate in festivities and come see the parade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the school, he says the important thing to remember when practicing is to remain humble and open to learning. Ow is planning a Kung Fu Day event on March 19, where he will invite sifus from all over the Bay Area to perform and showcase their styles in an exhibition as a sign of solidarity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t consider myself a master,” said Ow. “Even though it’s been 35 years, I still have more to learn. I tell my instructors that as long as you are teaching someone, it doesn’t matter if it’s one person or 10 people. What’s important is keeping the culture, tradition and style alive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“Sifu has a more in-depth meaning than ‘teacher,’” said Ow. “So first it’s like a coach. There’s a Chinese saying: ‘The student will watch the teacher and the teacher will watch the student.’ You’ll see in three to six years if the student is dedicated or worth your time. In the old-school way of thinking, the sifu doesn’t waste time. They let their younger instructors teach.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school has been in San Francisco for more than 50 years, and has participated in 36 Lunar New Year parades. Students’ ages range from 4 to 40 years old. The youngest students and beginners will march in the New Year parade, while students who have practiced kung fu will perform short sets for the crowd. Intermediate and advanced students will perform the lion dancing and help the younger students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11904684\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11904684\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53565_004_SanFrancisco_YauKungMoonPractice_01292022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Kung fu instructor holds blocking pad while young girl student punches inside a kung fu studio\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53565_004_SanFrancisco_YauKungMoonPractice_01292022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53565_004_SanFrancisco_YauKungMoonPractice_01292022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53565_004_SanFrancisco_YauKungMoonPractice_01292022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53565_004_SanFrancisco_YauKungMoonPractice_01292022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53565_004_SanFrancisco_YauKungMoonPractice_01292022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Richard Ow teaches a beginners martial arts class at Yau Kung Moon, a southern Shaolin kung fu studio, in Chinatown, San Francisco, on Jan. 29, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ow was born and raised in San Francisco in a traditional Chinese household.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My dad had a bakery on Washington Street in Chinatown and would work for over 12 hours regularly,” he said. “My sisters and I also helped with the business.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ow remembers vendors putting posters of martial arts movies on the window of the bakery and handing his father free movie tickets. His father would take him to see the films, and Ow grew up idolizing martial artists like Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Growing up, I was a skinny, weak kid so the films were a big inspiration,” said Ow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Ow was 11 years old, his father’s friend recommended taking him to visit the Yau Kung Moon School. Ow instantly fell in love with the school and became a devoted student who prided himself on being the first one to practice and the last one to leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He studied under Sifu Lok Sang Lee beginning in 1987, worked hard, and within two years had entered his first national kung fu competition in San Francisco. He won first place using Yau Kung Moon’s broadsword form for short weapons and the “Ying Ching” hand form. By the time he was 15, he was helping to instruct other students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11905615\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11905615\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS53582_025_SanFrancisco_YauKungMoonPractice_01292022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"instructor and student, both wearing masks, practice a hand form with arms symmetrically raised\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS53582_025_SanFrancisco_YauKungMoonPractice_01292022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS53582_025_SanFrancisco_YauKungMoonPractice_01292022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS53582_025_SanFrancisco_YauKungMoonPractice_01292022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS53582_025_SanFrancisco_YauKungMoonPractice_01292022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS53582_025_SanFrancisco_YauKungMoonPractice_01292022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rebecca Lee, 23, a senior instructor, helps Pandora, 9, during an intermediate martial arts class at Yau Kung Moon School in Chinatown on Jan. 29, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘Bringing out positivity and hope for community’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The last Lunar New Year parade took place two years ago, just before the pandemic shut down many activities that would normally be happening throughout the month. This year, excitement has been building as the parade — the biggest Lunar New Year parade outside Asia — prepares to roar back in the Year of the Tiger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Folk dancers, marching bands, stilt walkers and Chinese acrobats will join martial arts schools such as Yau Kung Moon, the Tat Wong Kung Fu Academy and Leung’s White Crane school, which performs at the parade’s finale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Lunar New Year parade is about bringing out positivity and hope for community,” said Ow. “For the performance, we bring in members that have been with us for 22 years, and it’s like a family gathering again. People still come out rain or shine. We represent our community positively in Chinatown.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vincent Lau, a resident of South San Francisco, brought his two children to practice at Yau Kung Moon School on Saturday morning. His children are 8 and 10 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They saw their cousin performing and decided they wanted to give it a try,” said Lau. “They’ve been participating since last year in May.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11905619\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11905619\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/026_KQED_YauKungMoonChinatownPerformance_01302022-1.jpg\" alt=\"young children wearing white Yau Kung Moon shirts and gold leggings with red sashes hold onto a railing while looking toward an outdoor stage\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/026_KQED_YauKungMoonChinatownPerformance_01302022-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/026_KQED_YauKungMoonChinatownPerformance_01302022-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/026_KQED_YauKungMoonChinatownPerformance_01302022-1-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/026_KQED_YauKungMoonChinatownPerformance_01302022-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/026_KQED_YauKungMoonChinatownPerformance_01302022-1-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Young Yau Kung Moon students prepare to take the stage to perform at the Chinese New Year Flower Market Fair in Chinatown, San Francisco, on Jan. 30, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lau has been going to see the Lunar New Year parade for years and would watch it on TV when he got older. He watches his children practice with Ow and commends him for his dedication.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can tell Sifu [Ow] really likes teaching and working with the community,” said Lau.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lau said the decision to get his children involved with the Yau Kung Moon School was partly influenced by news of ongoing violent attacks and hate targeting Asian and Asian American people across the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stop AAPI Hate — a project based out of San Francisco State University that, among other efforts, asks members of Asian American and Pacific Islander communities across the nation to self-report acts of hate and discrimination — \u003ca href=\"https://stopaapihate.org/national-report-through-september-2021/\">found that there were more than 10,000 incidents of anti-Asian hate from March 2020 through September 2021\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://stopaapihate.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/21-SAH-NationalReport2-v2.pdf\">California ranked first out of 20 states\u003c/a> with the largest percentage of hate incident reports at 37.8%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“My wife has that fear of bad things might happen, and this program is a way to help our kids protect themselves,” said Lau.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brandon Wong, a 25-year-old from Daly City, is one of Yau Kung Moon School’s senior instructors and has been training and performing since he was in middle school. He’s been working with Sifu Richard Ow for more than 14 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My mother knew one of the instructors and he would see me around town and egged me on to learn,” said Wong. “I decided to give it a try and fell in love with it. I started coming out every Saturday and Sunday to practice. It’s nice to exercise, but learning lion dancing and martial arts helped build my confidence. Learning and practicing with other people from the community was nice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Wong first started practicing, there weren’t as many kids involved, so all the participants (around 20 people) trained together, no matter their skill level. The program has since grown, and classes are now separated by skill level: beginner, intermediate and advanced. Wong has participated in at least 12 parade performances, and he’s also a part of the street fair performances held on Sundays in Chinatown. 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"content": "\u003cp>A young Chalino Sánchez, clad in Western wear and a cowboy hat tilted to one side, could be found selling tapes of his corridos at swap meets or entertaining guests at quinceañeras and baptism parties throughout Southern California in the 1980s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was just another Mexican immigrant hustling to survive. But within a few years he became a bestselling singer whose music flowed from California to Mexico, mesmerizing fans with his songs about outlaws and drug traffickers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His rise to superstardom, however, was cut short by his still unsolved murder in 1992. Sánchez’s remarkable story takes on new life in \u003ca href=\"https://www.futuromediagroup.org/chalinosanchez/\">Idolo: The Ballad of Chalino Sánchez\u003c/a>, an eight-part podcast co-produced by Futuro Media and Sonoro that dropped onto streaming platforms on Feb. 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sánchez is considered the king of narcocorridos, a musical genre that some critics say glamorizes the crime, violence and misogyny that has plagued Mexico for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Cati V. de los Ríos, assistant professor, UC Berkeley Graduate School of Education\"]‘Corridos remind you of what your abuelitos listened to, what your parents or your tíos and tías listened to. And, it is a form of literacy. It’s a form of reading and writing.’[/pullquote]Still, something about the raw sound of his voice, his rags-to-riches story and his swagger continue to capture fans. You’ve probably heard his tunes even if you only casually listen to Mexican music. Thirty years after his death, the deeply reported Idolo takes a personal look at the singer who was only 31 when he was found shot to death in an irrigation canal the morning after a concert in his home state of Sinaloa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The podcast comes in two versions, with host Erick Galindo telling the story in English, from California, and host Alejandro Mendoza telling it from Mexico, in Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been trying to tell this story professionally in mainstream media for like 10 years,” said Galindo, a writer, producer and host for LAist Studios. “[Sánchez] represented so much across cultures. He gave recent immigrants something nostalgic from their ranchos back home, and at the same time helped their children connect with their parents’ culture.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The history of corridos in Mexico goes back centuries, but the genre has evolved, according to Jorge Herrera, an ethnomusicologist and expert on Mexican music who teaches at California State University, Fullerton. In the past, a corrido would summarize or use figurative language to describe crimes or violence, whereas Sánchez used graphic details in his tales of valientes, or brave men, often desperados trying to avoid capture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11904546\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 960px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/Galindo-Headshot_By-Oscar-Rodriguez-Zapata-courtesy-of-Sin-Miedo-Productions-2.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11904546\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/Galindo-Headshot_By-Oscar-Rodriguez-Zapata-courtesy-of-Sin-Miedo-Productions-2.jpg\" alt=\"A young man with a beard wearing a 'Sinaloa' baseball cap.\" width=\"960\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/Galindo-Headshot_By-Oscar-Rodriguez-Zapata-courtesy-of-Sin-Miedo-Productions-2.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/Galindo-Headshot_By-Oscar-Rodriguez-Zapata-courtesy-of-Sin-Miedo-Productions-2-800x1000.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/Galindo-Headshot_By-Oscar-Rodriguez-Zapata-courtesy-of-Sin-Miedo-Productions-2-160x200.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Erick Galindo, a Southern California journalist, reported, produced and hosted the English version of the Idolo podcast through his company, Sin Miedo Productions. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Oscar Rodriguez Zapata)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Generations of young Mexican Americans have found “a piece of their dignity in his voice, a piece of their story and their family story in his songs,” said Cati V. de los Ríos, an assistant professor at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Education, who has researched how students of Mexican descent relate to corridos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Corridos remind you of what your abuelitos listened to, what your parents or your tíos and tías listened to,” she said. “And, it is a form of literacy. It’s a form of reading and writing. It’s through corridos that a lot of young people learn allegory, hyperboles, similes and metaphors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Galindo, whose parents are from Sinaloa, was focused on telling Sánchez’s story in a way that would appeal to other Mexican Americans who also grew up idolizing the singer. The podcast also probes some of the unanswered questions surrounding the singer’s mysterious death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody can find something that they like in this story,” said Jasmine Romero, head of development at Sonoro. “It’s a music story. It’s a true-crime story. It’s a murder mystery. It’s got all of those different elements that make it appealing to all kinds of people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sánchez’s songs, which have hundreds of millions of streams on online music platforms, continue to bump from home stereos. He is often compared to hip-hop artists whose music chronicles the stories of struggling people resorting to crime to get by.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11904545\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/Alejandro_Chalino-scaled.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11904545\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/Alejandro_Chalino-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"Anman wearing a hats sits cross-legged on a couch.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/Alejandro_Chalino-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/Alejandro_Chalino-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/Alejandro_Chalino-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/Alejandro_Chalino-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/Alejandro_Chalino-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/Alejandro_Chalino-2048x1365.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/Alejandro_Chalino-1920x1280.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alejandro Mendoza reported from Mexico and hosted the Spanish version of the Idolo podcast. \u003ccite>(Felipe David Campos/Sonoro)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Chalino is Mexican, but then goes to LA and is so influential and iconic on both sides of the border,” Romero said. “His career took off because of mixtapes that came out of swap meets in LA. That is, in essence, how he got discovered and how he blew up. I think people underestimate the influence of word-of-mouth in the Mexican American community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The podcast delves into how Sánchez became a successful performer despite not being a trained singer, or even a particularly talented one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Chalino couldn’t have been famous in Mexico,” said Galindo, whose independent production company, Sin Miedo Productions, also co-produced Idolo. “There’s too many great singers in Mexico. There’s too many people who already represent what he represented for millions of immigrants in Los Angeles and in the Bay Area and in Central California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what set Sánchez apart was a singing style he himself referred to as “barking,” and that Galindo describes as “raw and rugged.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“His fans felt like outsiders,” said Galindo. “It’s the idea that you’re in this country, and you don’t feel like you belong. And here’s a guy who definitely does not sound like he belongs on stage. And he’s doing it anyway.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"arts_13863441,arts_13900272,arts_13900041\"]Sánchez’s first corrido was about his brother, who immigrated with him to California, and was later killed back in Mexico. The song, “Armando Sánchez,” offers details about the slaying, describing a valiant man who was shot seven times on Dec. 5 at the Santa Rita Hotel in Tijuana by a coward who didn’t give him the chance to react. (The song doesn’t reveal the year of his brother’s death.) Sánchez’s penchant for specificity and paying homage were trademarks of his compositions. (\u003ca href=\"https://www.latinousa.org/2017/11/01/10-best-corridos-chalino-sanchez/\">Check out this primer\u003c/a> on some of his most well-known corridos.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Idolo details, Sánchez spent time in La Mesa prison in Tijuana following his brother’s death. It was there that he honed his songwriting and storytelling skills, earning money by composing tunes for fellow inmates who wanted to be immortalized in a song.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Idolo production team decided a podcast about Sánchez needed its own corrido, so a group of musicians and vocalists were assembled to evoke Sánchez’s style. The verses include the refrain, “Ni las ballas pudieron matarlo/Su legado aún sigue vivo tanto aquí como en el otro lado” (“Not even the bullets could kill him/His legacy lives on here just like on the other side”).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The podcast digs into the question of whether Sánchez normalized narco culture. Sánchez weaved tales of narco activity, but his songs preceded an explosion of cartel violence in Mexico that has spurred the murder of tens of thousands of people in the last decade alone. The violence has become part of people’s everyday lives, especially in places like Sinaloa, where Sánchez came from.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Musicians are singing about what’s going on in Mexico, and you cannot blame that on a corrido,” Herrera, the ethnomusicologist, said. “The narco war, the drugs — all that came first and the music is just a reflection of what’s happening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Galindo said his goal was to discuss Sánchez in all his complexity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He told stories of complicated men, bad guys, sometimes good guys, but oftentimes criminals and violent men,” he said. “But he did tell it in a way that gave them context and dignity. And hopefully, we did that for him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Still, something about the raw sound of his voice, his rags-to-riches story and his swagger continue to capture fans. You’ve probably heard his tunes even if you only casually listen to Mexican music. Thirty years after his death, the deeply reported Idolo takes a personal look at the singer who was only 31 when he was found shot to death in an irrigation canal the morning after a concert in his home state of Sinaloa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The podcast comes in two versions, with host Erick Galindo telling the story in English, from California, and host Alejandro Mendoza telling it from Mexico, in Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been trying to tell this story professionally in mainstream media for like 10 years,” said Galindo, a writer, producer and host for LAist Studios. “[Sánchez] represented so much across cultures. He gave recent immigrants something nostalgic from their ranchos back home, and at the same time helped their children connect with their parents’ culture.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The history of corridos in Mexico goes back centuries, but the genre has evolved, according to Jorge Herrera, an ethnomusicologist and expert on Mexican music who teaches at California State University, Fullerton. 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It’s a form of reading and writing. It’s through corridos that a lot of young people learn allegory, hyperboles, similes and metaphors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Galindo, whose parents are from Sinaloa, was focused on telling Sánchez’s story in a way that would appeal to other Mexican Americans who also grew up idolizing the singer. The podcast also probes some of the unanswered questions surrounding the singer’s mysterious death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody can find something that they like in this story,” said Jasmine Romero, head of development at Sonoro. “It’s a music story. It’s a true-crime story. It’s a murder mystery. It’s got all of those different elements that make it appealing to all kinds of people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sánchez’s songs, which have hundreds of millions of streams on online music platforms, continue to bump from home stereos. 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"content": "\u003cp>“Go back to where you came from.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s an insult that, unfortunately, many of us have heard. For writer, playwright and political commentator Wajahat Ali, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/01/25/1075283913/wajahat-alis-go-back-to-where-you-came-from-is-biting-and-funny-and-full-of-hear\">it’s also the title of his new book\u003c/a> — a memoir he calls “a love letter to a country that doesn’t love us back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The book traces Ali’s childhood in Fremont through his activism as a UC Berkeley student after 9/11, and the challenges he’s faced as a son, a father and a writer. It chronicles his near-death from a heart condition, his young daughter getting cancer and his parents going to jail. The book is also, somehow, hysterically funny.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ali shared some of his reflections about Islamophobia, humor and resilience with The California Report Magazine host Sasha Khokha.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Interview excerpts have been edited for brevity and clarity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>On representations of South Asians and Muslims in pop culture\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Growing up as a child of the ’80s and ’90s, I inhaled American pop culture. Growing up, you don’t sit there and go, “I am a Muslim Pakistani son of immigrants. I am left-handed and wearing Husky pants.” You’re like, “I’m just a kid and I’m an American.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But you internalize being the other. You see movies where you are either the sidekick, the villain or you’re completely invisible. Like action movies where Chuck Norris used to go to Middle Eastern countries and just blow up swaths of brown people all the time. He was the hero and you’re rooting for him. Or you’re watching that movie “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.” Even then, as a 5-year-old, I’m like, “This is not how my people are. We don’t eat chilled monkey brains or drink eyeball soup.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But then you don’t realize, oh, the joke’s on me. I’m the bad guy. What does that do to your sense of self-worth, your self-esteem, your image of beauty? When you look at yourself in the mirror, do you love yourself or do you hate yourself? Are you taught to hate the color of your skin, the shape of your nose, your ethnic last name? Many people, without ever really thinking about it, internalize these images, for the rest of their lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>An excerpt from “Go Back to Where You Came From”:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I’m about as American as chicken korma, apple pie, and chai, but even after forty years, I’m still told to “go back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Where, exactly?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In America, who (and what) are you when you’re both “us” and “them”? When I’m a native but seen as a foreigner? When I’m a citizen but also seen as a perpetual suspect? When I’m your neighbor but also seen as an invader? When I’m a cultural creator but also seen as an eraser of white identity and European civilization?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to mainstream code, I will never be “ordinary” or “a real American” from the “Rust Belt” (unless you consider California the heartland which, let’s face it, no one does). My parents are seen by some as potential terrorists because they’re from Pakistan, even though they’ve lived in this country for over forty years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Can I be a “real” American when I’m not white no matter how much Fair & Lovely cream I slather on my skin? The answer in 2022 is “Yes, but with conditions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But I don’t want conditional love. I want more from America and my fellow Americans.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11903778\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 832px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11903778 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/young-waj-fam-e1643842585110.jpeg\" alt=\"group family photo of 5 people\" width=\"832\" height=\"652\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/young-waj-fam-e1643842585110.jpeg 832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/young-waj-fam-e1643842585110-800x627.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/young-waj-fam-e1643842585110-160x125.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 832px) 100vw, 832px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A young Wajahat Ali (far left) with family, including his parents and grandmother. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Wajahat Ali)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>On life as a young Muslim in post-9/11 America\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>I was liberal in college and was, I guess you could say, an accidental activist. But a lot of it was book learning. Let me be blunt, and some people might not like to hear this, but a lot of those kids are good, well-intentioned kids who haven’t lived those experiences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They read about poverty. They haven’t tasted poverty. They read about oppression. They’ve never been oppressed. They’re like cul-de-sac social justice warriors, right? Their heart is in the right place. Their mind is in the right place. I was like that, but I didn’t really taste it. My [immigrant] parents tasted it. But they protected me. So I was kind of in a suburban, protected shell living the American dream. A kid who was at UC Berkeley and was thinking about going to law school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then 9/11 happened, and overnight we became citizens and suspects. Overnight, we became terrorists. The American story had a remake, and tag, Muslims were it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11903780\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 980px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11903780\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/9780393867978.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"980\" height=\"1480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/9780393867978.jpg 980w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/9780393867978-800x1208.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/9780393867978-160x242.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 980px) 100vw, 980px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wajahat Ali’s new memoir transforms a painful phrase into a hilarious exploration of Islamophobia and racism. \u003ccite>(Courtesy W.W. Norton and Co.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>We were the villains. Not just Muslims, but those who look Muslim-y. All of a sudden the entire target was on our back. This country went mad after 9/11. This country went so crazy, we renamed french fries as freedom fries. This country went so nuts that they canceled Susan Sontag. They canceled the Dixie Chicks, who are like the whitest women on Earth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what do you think they were doing to Muslims? They were surveilling us. They were entrapping us. They went after our organizations. They went after our charities. What is the type of effect that has on Muslims? A chilling effect. Fear. There were hate crimes against Muslim women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All this was happening as I was a student at UC Berkeley. Overnight I became this accidental activist and this representative of this thing called “Islam” and “Muslims.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I learned then that we would have to be something called the “moderate Muslim” in order to be accepted by America. That meant condemning violent acts done by people we’ve never met. Even if we condemned violent acts, and no matter how nice and shiny, we were still seen as suspects. That’s what happened, and we realized, “Oh crap, we’re not white. We’re actually, for a brief moment, living the Black experience in America.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>On ‘actively investing’ in joy and humor\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>I think humor is important for us to simply have catharsis, to have joy. For people of color to have joy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two things that have surprised people most about the book is that people didn’t expect it to be so funny, and people didn’t expect it to end on such a hopeful note, and they needed that hope. The hope that I try to give in the book is an earned hope, not a Hollywood Hallmark hope, where they tie on a bow at the end to make you feel better, like cotton candy. It tastes good for the moment, but afterwards you feel really bad and you get angry, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11903781\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11903781\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/Wajahat-Ali-author-photo-scaled-e1644023476196.jpg\" alt=\"profile headshot with bright pink background\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1282\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Author Wajahat Ali has written for The Atlantic, The Washington Post and The New York Times and appeared as a political commentator on CNN. \u003ccite>(Danin Dahlen/HuffPost)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Earned hope is confronting the demons, acknowledging them. Walking through the [forest] of horrors and then coming out with the scars and the wounds, but still standing. The journey of horrors, which is the life of so many Americans who still haven’t tasted the American dream. They’ve lived the American nightmare. And this pandemic, which has flattened us but flattened us unequally and revealed the wonderful X-ray of this country — all of its goodness and badness — perfectly laid bare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As so many are suffering, I have made the decision in life to actively invest in joy. You have to actively invest in it like exercise. You have to make the intention and then you have to develop the discipline, because for so many of us, we don’t get joy, we don’t get to laugh. Instead, the narrative that we were taught was suffer, but suffer well. Suffer but suffer proud. Suffer, but suffer silently. Smile, even though you’re crying inside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When [our then-2-year-old daughter] Nusayba was diagnosed with cancer, my wife and I could have easily gone to this mental quicksand of, “Why us? Why us? Why, God?” You’ll never receive an answer to that. That whisper eats away and destroys you. But instead, we said, “This is life. Life happens.” There’s good and there’s bad. Bad things happen to good people. Good things happen to bad people. It’s how we choose to confront it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11903779\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 960px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11903779\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/sleeping-dad-2015.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"956\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/sleeping-dad-2015.jpeg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/sleeping-dad-2015-800x797.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/sleeping-dad-2015-160x159.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wajahat Ali, a tired dad, in 2015. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Wajahat Ali)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I remember I used to sit there at night after my kids went to sleep during my daughter’s stage-four cancer, where we didn’t know if she’d survive. I imagined burying her. I imagined her dying. I imagined [calling her grandparents], saying she died, because I had to prepare myself as the father. But then I made the choice of imagining her alive and healthy, wearing her “Encanto” Isabella dress, full of life. I chose to invest in that story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though it feels like you’re on the edge of the cliff and the cliff is falling, you know, you never know, sometimes the page turns and brings with it a plot twist, and it leads to a better story. And [after being diagnosed with a serious heart condition], I should be dead. Literally, I should be dead. But here I am talking to you. Still alive. My daughter is still alive. So how can I not invest in hope?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>On representations of South Asians and Muslims in pop culture\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Growing up as a child of the ’80s and ’90s, I inhaled American pop culture. Growing up, you don’t sit there and go, “I am a Muslim Pakistani son of immigrants. I am left-handed and wearing Husky pants.” You’re like, “I’m just a kid and I’m an American.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But you internalize being the other. You see movies where you are either the sidekick, the villain or you’re completely invisible. Like action movies where Chuck Norris used to go to Middle Eastern countries and just blow up swaths of brown people all the time. He was the hero and you’re rooting for him. Or you’re watching that movie “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.” Even then, as a 5-year-old, I’m like, “This is not how my people are. We don’t eat chilled monkey brains or drink eyeball soup.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But then you don’t realize, oh, the joke’s on me. I’m the bad guy. What does that do to your sense of self-worth, your self-esteem, your image of beauty? When you look at yourself in the mirror, do you love yourself or do you hate yourself? Are you taught to hate the color of your skin, the shape of your nose, your ethnic last name? Many people, without ever really thinking about it, internalize these images, for the rest of their lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>An excerpt from “Go Back to Where You Came From”:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I’m about as American as chicken korma, apple pie, and chai, but even after forty years, I’m still told to “go back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Where, exactly?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In America, who (and what) are you when you’re both “us” and “them”? When I’m a native but seen as a foreigner? When I’m a citizen but also seen as a perpetual suspect? When I’m your neighbor but also seen as an invader? 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But a lot of it was book learning. Let me be blunt, and some people might not like to hear this, but a lot of those kids are good, well-intentioned kids who haven’t lived those experiences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They read about poverty. They haven’t tasted poverty. They read about oppression. They’ve never been oppressed. They’re like cul-de-sac social justice warriors, right? Their heart is in the right place. Their mind is in the right place. I was like that, but I didn’t really taste it. My [immigrant] parents tasted it. But they protected me. So I was kind of in a suburban, protected shell living the American dream. A kid who was at UC Berkeley and was thinking about going to law school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then 9/11 happened, and overnight we became citizens and suspects. Overnight, we became terrorists. The American story had a remake, and tag, Muslims were it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11903780\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 980px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11903780\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/9780393867978.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"980\" height=\"1480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/9780393867978.jpg 980w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/9780393867978-800x1208.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/9780393867978-160x242.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 980px) 100vw, 980px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wajahat Ali’s new memoir transforms a painful phrase into a hilarious exploration of Islamophobia and racism. \u003ccite>(Courtesy W.W. Norton and Co.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>We were the villains. Not just Muslims, but those who look Muslim-y. All of a sudden the entire target was on our back. This country went mad after 9/11. This country went so crazy, we renamed french fries as freedom fries. This country went so nuts that they canceled Susan Sontag. They canceled the Dixie Chicks, who are like the whitest women on Earth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what do you think they were doing to Muslims? They were surveilling us. They were entrapping us. They went after our organizations. They went after our charities. What is the type of effect that has on Muslims? A chilling effect. Fear. There were hate crimes against Muslim women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All this was happening as I was a student at UC Berkeley. Overnight I became this accidental activist and this representative of this thing called “Islam” and “Muslims.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I learned then that we would have to be something called the “moderate Muslim” in order to be accepted by America. That meant condemning violent acts done by people we’ve never met. Even if we condemned violent acts, and no matter how nice and shiny, we were still seen as suspects. That’s what happened, and we realized, “Oh crap, we’re not white. We’re actually, for a brief moment, living the Black experience in America.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>On ‘actively investing’ in joy and humor\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>I think humor is important for us to simply have catharsis, to have joy. For people of color to have joy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two things that have surprised people most about the book is that people didn’t expect it to be so funny, and people didn’t expect it to end on such a hopeful note, and they needed that hope. The hope that I try to give in the book is an earned hope, not a Hollywood Hallmark hope, where they tie on a bow at the end to make you feel better, like cotton candy. It tastes good for the moment, but afterwards you feel really bad and you get angry, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11903781\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11903781\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/Wajahat-Ali-author-photo-scaled-e1644023476196.jpg\" alt=\"profile headshot with bright pink background\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1282\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Author Wajahat Ali has written for The Atlantic, The Washington Post and The New York Times and appeared as a political commentator on CNN. \u003ccite>(Danin Dahlen/HuffPost)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Earned hope is confronting the demons, acknowledging them. Walking through the [forest] of horrors and then coming out with the scars and the wounds, but still standing. The journey of horrors, which is the life of so many Americans who still haven’t tasted the American dream. They’ve lived the American nightmare. And this pandemic, which has flattened us but flattened us unequally and revealed the wonderful X-ray of this country — all of its goodness and badness — perfectly laid bare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As so many are suffering, I have made the decision in life to actively invest in joy. You have to actively invest in it like exercise. You have to make the intention and then you have to develop the discipline, because for so many of us, we don’t get joy, we don’t get to laugh. Instead, the narrative that we were taught was suffer, but suffer well. Suffer but suffer proud. Suffer, but suffer silently. Smile, even though you’re crying inside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When [our then-2-year-old daughter] Nusayba was diagnosed with cancer, my wife and I could have easily gone to this mental quicksand of, “Why us? Why us? 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