Asian women use comedy to combat dehumanization, invisibility
Naomi Ko, Saymoukda Vongsay, and May Lee-Yang make up the Funny Asian Women Kollective, or FAWK, based out of St. Paul. Author: Gia Vang (KARE11) Updated: 6:51 AM CDT May 7, 2021
ST PAUL, Minn. Sometimes the most effective way to combat racism and dispel stereotypes is through laughter. Three women who are Asian have been doing just that for years in St. Paul. FAWK s mission is to use comedy to combat the dehumanization and invisibility of Asian Pacific Islander Desi American women, said Lee-Yang.
To be clear, these women have no professional training. They re all English majors according to Lee-Yang. But don’t get it twisted - there is experience and arguably, a lot of it.
Women of Color Unite to Launch #Startwith8 UK Edition
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The successful mentorship program #StartWith8Hollywood, will now expand to the UK with support from the British Film Institute and led by Akua Gyamfi of The British Blacklist.
#Startwith8 UK Edition
Working with the BFI and the Advisory Board just seemed like the next natural step in the evolution of #StartWith8 and the Global reckoning of diversity. HOLLYWOOD, Calif. (PRWEB) February 25, 2021 Women of Color Unite (WOCU) will make available opportunities for hundreds of women/non-binary people of color in the UK to be mentored by seasoned veterans in the entertainment industry.
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Black women have higher recurrence and mortality rates than non-Hispanic white women for certain types of breast cancer, according to a University of Illinois Chicago researcher s study published recently in
JAMA Oncology.
Dr. Kent Hoskins, associate professor in the UIC College of Medicine s division of hematology/oncology, and co-leader of the Breast Cancer Research group in the University of Illinois Cancer Center, published the study, Association of race/ethnicity and the 21-gene Recurrence Score with breast cancer-specific mortality among US women in the Jan. 21 online issue.
Hoskins and the research team sought to discover if breast cancer-specific mortality among women with estrogen receptor-positive, axillary node-negative breast cancer differs by race within risk categories defined by the Oncotype Recurrence Score, or RS, which is a genomic test that analyzes the activity of a group of genes that can affect how a cancer is likely to behave and respond to tre