By Melissa Slaughter

Meet Chasing Lovely, a Hapa music duo. When I first heard of them, I thought, “How cool!” Then I listened to them and fell in love.

Hapa Mag's staff picks for our favorite podcasts! 

By Sam Tanabe

Get hyped about this up and coming Los Angeles-based recording artist Will Jay. Will is confident, cool, and delivers strong, sincere messages through his music.

What are the Hapa Mag Staff reading now? 

By Alex Chester

As a woman, is it possible to have “it all?” Family, love, and a career? I’m on the fence about it, but there is one person I know that actually “has it all!”

By Melissa Slaughter

We talk to Chloe Bennet (Agents of Shield) and Brad Jenkins (Funny or Die) about their organization RUN.

Browse the Hapa Mag Staff picks for our favorite winter skincare. 

By Alex Chester

My Grandmama makes the best Apple Strudel. I So I got her to write her recipe down for your own baking pleasure.

By Alison Lea Bender

When I was growing up, I loved hot dogs and anything very spicy.

By Melissa Slaughter

My Southern/Japanese roots come together in recipes just like these!

By Chasing Lovely

YOU GUYS—WE FOUND THEM. The most perfect, ooey-gooey, foodgasm-inducing chocolate chip cookies. The kind of cookies that melt in your mouth and warm you from the inside out.

By Emily Jenks

"Because I was always the 'outsider,' I learned to be accepting of others regardless of their race. I also now love being different than everyone else."

By Alex Chester

Hi, my name is Alex and I use to be Kosher.

By Alison Lea Bender

I’ve had Asian Americans ask me what I identify more as: White or Asian? I absolutely despise this question every time I am faced with it. It is unfair because I identify as both.

By Troy Iwata

Here’s a dumb thing to say only because it’s painfully obvious: we’re all scared to come out, in any sense of the term.

By Autumn Henry

Here I am: it’s almost Christmas 2017 and I am almost eight months pregnant with my first child.

By Lauren Lola

In my life, it has been a given to find myself on both ends of storytelling; both as the one receiving the stories being told and as the storyteller.

By TX Tario

Hawaii is truly the “Aloha (love) State,” because we are welcoming and accepting of people from all walks of life.

By Rebecca Lee Lerman

I'm not alone. I'm with me.

By Melissa Slaughter

These holiday cupcakes are complete with red bean paste (henceforth known as azuki) and matcha frosting in the shape of a Christmas tree.

Hapa Mag Staff Picks for our favorite holiday movies.