Asian American Voices: Magazine of the Students

Cover Image, Asian American Voices: Magazine of the Students Volume 7, Spring 2025

Published by the Asian American / Asian Research Institute at the City University of New York, this edited volume is a collection of term papers, creative writing, essays, recipes, artworks, and photo collection.

Editorial Committee: Malgorzata Marciniak (LaGuardia CC), Acting Editor in Chief, Andy Szeto (New York City DOE) Anita Baksh (LaGuardia CC), Choon Shan Lai (LaGuardia CC), Payal Doctor (LaGuardia CC), Qin Li (Queensborough CC), Tomonori Nagano (LaGuardia CC), Xiaoyi Wei (City College)

Contents

Part I: Recognizing the AAPI Leader

• Recognizing the AAPI Leader: Yung-Yi Diana Pan

Part II: Reflective Essays

• Five Golden Years (Christa Huang)

• Do I Seem Asian Enough? (Sylvia Lee)

• Close Enough, I’ll Take It (Regina Gultom)

• Bleeding (Alif Kazi)

• Criticisms of Chinese Beauty Standards from a Chinese Teen (Min Zeng)

Part III: Poetry and Artwork

• Why Did We Have to Say Goodbye? (Anandita Shaji)

• Slip and Tumble, 10×11 Stoneware and Glaze (Noah Skinner)

• Myanmar is Pleading… (Emily Suu Myatnoe)

• Prayer (Aemon Khin)

Part IV: Recipes and Food

• Identity Through Food (Kaitlyn Noyan)

• Barbecued Green Peppers: My Food Memory (Yubin Lin)

• Ohn No Khauk Swe (Lillian Maung)

Part V: Critical Essays

• Beyond Prayer: How Monasteries Preserve Sherpa Culture at Home and Abroad (Pemba Sherpa)

• Postmodernizing Men’s Hockey: Deconstructing Identity, Physicality, and Queerness (Eunice Yeung)

• In Defense of Jhumpa Lahiri (Daniel Katash)

• Subway Soliloquy: Navigating Identity, Survival, and Alienation in Sokuntary Svay’s Poem “Evasion” (Aiman Sheikh)

• Excavating the Mother Tongue to Retain Cultures (Anandita Shaji)