Listen to my interview with Her Royal Highness Soma Norodom here.
The interview was a performance entitled The Naked Truth. (warning: it’s 1 hr 30 min). And yes no topic was off limits when the Royal Rebel chops it up with the Global Agitator!
I wanted to take advantage of being on the radio and try something [...]

In January 2011 we moved to Phnom Penh Cambodia. We launched a new creative media lab, Studio Revolt, so check that link out.
My thoughts about living here can be summed up in the following lists.

10 things i love about living in Phnom Penh
1.) super family friendly – they love children here and no where [...]

American Vogue – the whitest fashion magazine in the world is finally giving props to asian models. Of course, this realization comes at a time when China is rising as a economic & consumer power. With 1 billion people suddenly armed with buying power, one would hope there would be reflections of beauty beyond a [...]

From 1992-1996 I was part of a coalition of student groups who fought for Asian American Studies and a Cultural House at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Today is the 5 year anniversary celebration of the university’s Asian American Cultural Center. I contributed the following statement to the accompanying alumni art show, to which i [...]

French women cause a stir in niqab and hot pants in anti-burka ban protest
By Henry Samuel in Paris
Published: 3:10PM BST 01 Oct 2010
Two French female students have made a film of the pair of them strolling through the streets of Paris in a niqab, bare legs and mini-shorts as a critique of France’s recently passed [...]

I am starting a new theme here on my blogsite. I am trying to find samples of how we use performance or performance art in our everyday life.
check out this new york times article about college students using their bodies (…basically performance art) to deliver a political message. there’s something stunning about knowing the [...]

We are always performing. Gender is a construction. The question is what happens when these “girls” hit puberty and start to develop in ways that make it harder for them to disguise their sex? and what happens when they want to stop pretending?
Read this New York Times Article on Afghan Boys are Prized, So [...]

I wanted to share some thoughts with you as we reflect on the 9th anniversary of 9/11 attacks. This was something I started writing after 9/11/01 and recently finished as part of my manifesto. Please read and feel free to share with others.
Islam. The war on terrorism. Racial Profiling. Detainees. [...]

check this report out. I am reposting  this from Planet Grenada’s blog.
A couple of interesting links:
From Loonwatch: All Terrorists are Muslims… Except the 94% that Aren’t summarizes an updated FBI report of terrorist acts on US soil. As you can see for yourself from the above pie graph, among the counter-stereotypical results are: 1) Only [...]

It’s sad that this generation has been sucker punched into loving the ‘Twilight’ vampire series of books. Forget that another book with a similar title was written by Anna Deavere Smith many moons ago. Her book was a collection of stories/monologues from the LA riots in 1992 and one of the first to humanize Korean [...]