Sylvie K. posted an article on The Antisocial Ladder - Dec 6, 2009, 1:09 pm
...but I'm pretty sure I'm going to love it. More loving shots of Harry Shum's arm definition, please. Thank you, Mr. Chu.
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Sylvie K. posted an article on The Antisocial Ladder - Dec 6, 2009, 12:38 pm
...to the song that has been blasted from my factory quality car speakers since the summer. Meant to do this when Grammy nods came out, but with all the Taylor Swift and Black Eyed Peas presence on ...
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Sylvie K. posted an article on The Antisocial Ladder - Dec 5, 2009, 3:10 pm
Did you know that you can be classified as a singer without technically being a singer? You don't even have to fake vocal ability anymore. Milli Vanilli got a raw deal! Exhibit A: Exhibit B: I&...
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Sylvie K. posted an article on The Antisocial Ladder - Dec 3, 2009, 10:29 pm
Thursday/Friday's Essay Yes, I know I flaked on last night's essay. And yes, I'm posting this at midnight so that it counts as both Thursday and Friday's essay. I'll have you know...
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Sylvie K. posted an article on The Antisocial Ladder - Dec 3, 2009, 12:17 am
I know I'm supposed to have Wednesday's Essay up, but I saw this review of The Princess and the Frog and just had to get my minority whine on. "The Princess and the Frog happens to introduce ...
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Sylvie K. posted an article on The Antisocial Ladder - Dec 2, 2009, 10:26 am
When the Associated Press picks you up, you're golden. A profile on the Mr. Hyphen contest and its 2009 winner Pahole Sookkasikon was written by AP writer Jesse Washington and has since been redi...
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Sylvie K. posted an article on The Antisocial Ladder - Dec 1, 2009, 10:17 am
Tuesday's Essay My mother loves Jesus. Her whole side of the family does. You walk into my aunt's house and turn to the left and you'll see a giant portrait of him. You walk across the ro...
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Sylvie K. posted an article on The Antisocial Ladder - Nov 30, 2009, 8:36 pm
Singer-songwriter Dawen is touring the Empire State to promote his "American Me" album. If you're in NYC (or Jersey or Lawwwng Island), you should definitely go. At least go to the Vassar show in ...
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Sylvie K. posted an article on The Antisocial Ladder - Nov 30, 2009, 12:14 pm
Monday's Essay I was what you'd call a "late bloomer," with an extended awkward phase that lasted roughly from ages 12 to 15. I'm talking braces, uneven weight distribution, and a series ...
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Sylvie K. posted an article on The Antisocial Ladder - Nov 29, 2009, 11:26 pm
I'm gonna try my hand at a little creative non-fiction, in the form of short personal essays about my mundane misadventures in This Asian American Life. I'm no David Sedaris (though, if I were...
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Sylvie K. posted an article on The Antisocial Ladder - Nov 24, 2009, 12:30 am
Wanted to plug a new t-shirt line by blogger/artist Sahra Nguyen over at Riot in the Sky. You can get more info on ordering here. She's also got an exhibition at UCLA coming up, so you should c...
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Sylvie K. posted an article on The Antisocial Ladder - Nov 23, 2009, 5:23 pm
First, I'm back from L.A. and had a great time meeting all the bloggers at BANANA. Shout outs to Lac and Steve for hosting and for allowing me to kick it with Byron from BigWowo, Cynthia and Vu fr...
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Sylvie K. posted an article on The Antisocial Ladder - Nov 16, 2009, 3:54 pm
Federal courts have dismissed Native American groups' attempt to legally remove the name and logo of the Washington Redskins football team. The question for the courts was interpretation of a fe...
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Sylvie K. posted an article on The Antisocial Ladder - Nov 15, 2009, 11:40 pm
Event plug! Award-winning Jude Narita in her one-woman play "From the Heart" which celebrates the lives, and brings to life the dreams, of different Asian and Asian American women. From a Korean stud...
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Sylvie K. posted an article on The Antisocial Ladder - Nov 15, 2009, 3:12 pm
I was over on AlterNet checking out some articles because over on mainstream news, I had officially hit my maximum capacity for reading about Carrie Prejean's Bible-approved fake boobs, softcore s...
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Sylvie K. posted an article on The Antisocial Ladder - Nov 11, 2009, 1:30 am
I just changed some shite around, diddled with some fonts. If you're wondering why the site is less yellow, let me confirm your suspicions: Yes...I'm getting whiter. But I plead the Sammy S...
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Sylvie K. posted an article on The Antisocial Ladder - Nov 10, 2009, 10:36 pm
First off, my apologies if I got "Hollaback Girl" stuck in your head. It could have been worse. I've had Soulja Boy's "Kiss Me Through the Phone" lodged in my brain for the past 9 goddamn mont...
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Sylvie K. posted an article on The Antisocial Ladder - Nov 10, 2009, 12:16 am
So, I'm finally dating someone! Here's a picture of us with some friends before Halloween. My bad. Wrong picture. Here's us at a friend's wedding. Shit. I keep uploading the wrong ph...
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Sylvie K. posted an article on The Antisocial Ladder - Nov 8, 2009, 11:40 pm
You know what I love about extremist conservatives? They're so...predictable. Wonkette has a lovely screenshot of a Twitter post aimed at U.S. Representative Joseph Cao (R-Louisiana), the lone Re...
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Sylvie K. posted an article on The Antisocial Ladder - Nov 4, 2009, 9:23 pm
Before I begin this post, I just wanted to acknowledge some emails of concern I've received. They are much appreciated, but no worries; I'm fine. Authorities have been notified and I'm jus...
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Sylvie K. posted an article on The Antisocial Ladder - Nov 3, 2009, 12:52 am
Mr. Hyphen is almost here. Who needs faux-swagger and unnecessary aggression? Real men contribute positively to their communities. And they look damn good doing it, too.
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Sylvie K. posted an article on The Antisocial Ladder - Oct 31, 2009, 4:41 pm
Kids: Please use recycled toilet paper if you're going TP'ing, chuck free range eggs if you're egging, check online to see which houses in your 'hood are occupied by registered sex off...
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Sylvie K. posted an article on The Antisocial Ladder - Oct 30, 2009, 1:26 am
My bad. I've only written one post this week, and it was a horrifying and depressing one about gang rape. Oh well, I hope it taught everyone an important lesson. Men: don't rape. Women: arm yo...
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Sylvie K. posted an article on The Antisocial Ladder - Oct 27, 2009, 3:24 pm
An East Bay 15-year-old high school student had to endure a two and a half hour gang rape on school grounds during a Homecoming dance. Word spread around while the assault was happening and around 15...
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Sylvie K. posted an article on The Antisocial Ladder - Oct 23, 2009, 11:40 am
It has passed in the Senate and is en route to President Obama's desk! From The Huffington Post: "The United States Senate passed landmark legislation today that expands the coverage and protecti...
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Sylvie K. posted an article on The Antisocial Ladder - Oct 22, 2009, 7:46 pm
Perhaps that was just my excuse to quote from "Total Eclipse of the Heart." Anyways, at times I loathe Gawker for its "We claim to be enlightened but really we're insensitive pricks with a highly...
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Sylvie K. posted an article on The Antisocial Ladder - Oct 21, 2009, 12:56 pm
I don't know what to write about. Balloon boy? Carrie Prejean's boob litigation? Jon Gosselin's neck bloat? Who's going to direct the newest Twilight installment and light an erotic f...
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Sylvie K. posted an article on The Antisocial Ladder - Oct 7, 2009, 9:55 pm
I've only done one Australia post before, and admittedly, I know maybe two things about the place: 1) The direction the toilets drain there have nothing to do with the Coriolis effect (Damn you, S...
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Sylvie K. posted an article on The Antisocial Ladder - Oct 5, 2009, 11:40 pm
Bestill my heart. Fall TV doesn't suck this year. Well, it sucks here and there. The Office is already petering out and its only on its third episode. The Ashton Kutcher-produced, post-hospitali...
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Sylvie K. posted an article on The Antisocial Ladder - Oct 3, 2009, 9:35 pm
The 38 bus in San Francisco is notorious for being a hotbed of crazy, mainly because it's the most heavily used bus line in the city. And because the mentally unhinged rely on public transit more ...
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Sylvie K. posted an article on The Antisocial Ladder - Oct 2, 2009, 10:49 pm
Thank you, Lisa Lowe. and Trinh T. Minh-ha. And thank you to my graduate program. It is an Asian American space where my anti-sexism isn't dismissed; where gay men aren't seen as less manly;...
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Sylvie K. posted an article on The Antisocial Ladder - Sep 29, 2009, 11:45 pm
Some Hollywood folks are speaking out against the recent arrest of Roman Polanksi, the director who's been hiding out in Europe for the past thirty years to avoid a sentence for giving a thirteen-...
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Sylvie K. posted an article on The Antisocial Ladder - Sep 26, 2009, 2:31 pm
... bus home a few weeks ago and this Asian man/boy was smiling at me. I say man/boy because I could not for the life of me gauge how ... those faces are Asian American and that makes me upset. To ...
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Sylvie K. posted an article on The Antisocial Ladder - Sep 22, 2009, 1:40 pm
"Oh come on now. You know that I didn't mean Chris Brown/Rihanna to be a shining example of anything. You're being disingenuous here. Now that I think about it, it's a bad example to begin...
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Sylvie K. posted an article on The Antisocial Ladder - Sep 21, 2009, 3:42 pm
"I'm not even sure why we need such a thing as Asian-American feminism to be quite honest." Well, I'm not sure why we need such a thing as Asian American patriarchy. To be quite honest. I&#...
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Sylvie K. posted an article on The Antisocial Ladder - Sep 20, 2009, 9:29 pm
uRB4N said... I think the main difference between black/Latin women and Asian women is that they're more inclined to community prone.

Many black and Latin women have said that they're op...
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Sylvie K. posted an article on The Antisocial Ladder - Sep 20, 2009, 3:58 pm
My apologies if I have not been devoting much to posting on a regular basis. But trust me, it's not because I've grown bored with you or because I'm working on finding "me." It's bec...
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Sylvie K. posted an article on The Antisocial Ladder - Sep 16, 2009, 9:41 pm
... . A genius named redsands621 made a page on eHow.com entitled "How to Meet and Date/Hook-up With ... that I'm slipping. It's that these guys are getting better. Let's look at the...
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Sylvie K. posted an article on The Antisocial Ladder - Sep 9, 2009, 10:36 pm
These are actual quotes directed toward Asian/American women from various IR debates online. But who are we kidding? Quotes are boring! Let's get poetic with it. I had to do a little cutting and m...
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Sylvie K. posted an article on The Antisocial Ladder - Sep 6, 2009, 8:01 pm
... women who earn their livelihood based on their bodies and sexuality. But Nguyen is Asian, and when you combine sexuality with that racial uniform, you get something far different from a busty blo...
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Sylvie K. posted an article on The Antisocial Ladder - Sep 2, 2009, 8:10 pm
As any reader of this blog will know, I have an unabashed fondness for America's Best Dance Crew. I have hit an age where I no longer fear rebuke at being a philistine; I only fear jowls and eye w...
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Sylvie K. posted an article on The Antisocial Ladder - Aug 27, 2009, 6:03 pm
...to people about their racism. Especially at a musical event for which they've paid to attend. Madonna, she of the scary, sinewy arms and appropriator to vanquish all appropriators (She's ...
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Sylvie K. posted an article on The Antisocial Ladder - Aug 24, 2009, 7:56 pm
I start grad school tomorrow. I already feel dumb. I will probably be drinking a lot this semester. That is all.
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Sylvie K. posted an article on The Antisocial Ladder - Aug 21, 2009, 10:40 pm

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Sylvie K. posted an article on The Antisocial Ladder - Aug 17, 2009, 10:50 pm
File this under: More bad ideas. Yahoo! News featured an article on a growing number of Vietnam war reenactors in small towns from states such as Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia, and Mississippi. Beca...
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Sylvie K. posted an article on The Antisocial Ladder - Aug 13, 2009, 8:52 pm

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Sylvie K. posted an article on The Antisocial Ladder - Aug 11, 2009, 11:07 pm
I'm eating solids again! Plus I'm pain free, 5 pounds lighter, all moved in and furnished (was bedless for about a week), and anxiously waiting for class to start...and for that financial aid ...
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Sylvie K. posted an article on The Antisocial Ladder - Aug 4, 2009, 5:02 pm
Are you creating a film, music video, commercial, tv show, or any kind of public performance? Are you wondering how to avoid being labeled as square or lacking hipness? Well little did you know, ther...
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