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**The U.S. Census Wants Me To Pick a Side, but I Refuse**

August 20, 2025
By Angela Wong Carbone
With the reclassification of the 2020 census, Angela Wong Carbone reflects on how the U.S. government’s new rules seek to erase and divide a growing population of mixed-race citizens.

Awkafina on Mixed Asian Heritage and Black Mirror

May 30, 2025
By Jacki Jing
Awkwafina speaks on her Chinese and Korean heritage, the acting journey and Howard the Duck.

Lucy Craft, Karen Kasmauski, and Kathryn Tolbert: Preserving the Legacies of Japanese War Brides

May 14, 2025
By Tal Anderson
Actor-filmmaker Tal Anderson interviews Lucy Craft, Karen Kasmauski and Kathryn Tolbert about their lives as mixed-Asian children of Japanese war brides, their documentary, *Fall Seven Times, Get Up Eight*, and the new Smithsonian Institution exhibit honoring their research and work.

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Mixed Asian Media (MAM) is a website and community created by multiracial, mixed Asian/Pacific Islanders. We aim to build community, foster discussion, and increase visibility by exploring what it means to be of mixed Asian, Pacific Islander, and Native Hawaiian descent today.

Magazine style photo cover of French-Cambodian actress, Élodie Yung. She wears an silky, ivory spaghetti strap top. There are red sequins curtains in the background. Her vivid expression is mid-shout. The photo is a close-up.

Magazine style photo cover of KPOP idol AleXa with wet, long blue hair in a sleeveless white gown standing in front of a cloud backdrop with red lines going across.

Magazine style photo cover of Conrad Ricamora, a mixed Asian man with short, wearing a brown polo and jeans, sitting legs crossed on a blue suede couch.

Magazine style photo cover of Peyton Lee, a teen actor with shoulder-length brown hair wearing a white top and jeans. Her producer stands behind, Kourtney Kang, a mixed Asian woman with dyed blonde hair wearing a white top and pants.

Created to combat the mixed-race pains of “not being enough, feeling fragmented and not whole, not seeing ourselves represented in mainstream media,” MAM engages our audience through original editorial pieces, exclusive celebrity interviews, photoshoots, by highlighting achievements from the community, and showcasing mixed businesses, entrepreneurs, and leaders.