WRITINGS | No-No Boy

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DISSERTATION: The No-No Boy Project: A Multimedia Investigation of Asian American Histories Through Sound, Songwriting, and Filmmaking, Brown University, 2022.

"In Praise of Hanboks and Stratocasters: A Conversation with Japanese Breakfast," Earthquaker, 2021.

"The Ghosts of No-No Boy in a Nation That Still Imprisons Immigrants," The Margins, Asian American Writers Workshop, 2020.

"Shishmaref: Field Notes from a Native Alaskan Town,"Folklife Magazine, Smithsonian, 2021.

"Isabeau Waia'u Walker and Her White Mexican Strat," Earthquaker, 2022.

"The Last Dance (of the George Igawa Orchestra)," The America Scholar, 2023.

"Another Headstone in the Graveyard of Empires,"The Daily Beast, 2021.

"On Excavation and Activating Ghosts In the Field: A Conversation Between Julian Saporiti and Dao Strom," diaCritics, DVAN, 2021.

Hapa Book Club: An Annotated Playlist + Reader, KEXP, 2021.

"Annotations on a Moment of Silence: Reflections Following the Atlanta Massacre."
Folklife Magazine, Smithsonian, 2021.

"Aren’t you tired of all these guitar pedal companies and their social justice Instagram posts?" Earthquaker, 2020.

"EMPIRE ELECTRIC" Album Liner Notes, Smithsonian Folkways, 2021.

"La Banda Mas Chingon en Wyoming" Single Liner Notes, Smithsonian Folkways, 2021.

"1975" Album Liner Notes, Smithsonian Folkways, 2021.

"1942" Album Liner Notes, Music of Asian America Research Center, 2018.

Grad School Research Blog

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