Dariane Nabor

On Monday afternoon, Paramount Studios invited the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL), Media Action Network for Asian Americans (MANAA) and Racebending.com to a private screening for ‘The Last Airbender,’ which will be released domestically on Thursday, July 1st. I was one of the people at this screening.

So before I get into what I thought about [...]

One of the leaders of the Racebending movement published a post looking back on the past year since the casting for ‘The Last Airbender’ film was announced. She asks some reflection questions to the readers. Here are my answers…
What did you initially think of the casting?
When I first learned about the casting of ‘The Last [...]

Last weekend I attended an event called BANANA,  the first-ever gathering of many Asian-American (and Canadian) bloggers.
Of course, many of the panelists at the event have posted their own recaps on their respective websites detailing the topics, networking, and drama.  Here’s a quick list of those posts:

“The Bloggers League” by Jon Yang
“Banana wasn’t just a [...]

Months after the event, I finally got around to editing together some footage of media professionals, supporters, and volunteers of the Racebending.com movement from San Diego Comic-Con 2009.  It features commentary from Gene Yang (author of ‘American Born Chinese’ and ‘Eternal Smile’), Tycho Brahe (of Penny Arcade), Benton Jew (illustrator), Sandeep Parikh (of ‘The Guild’, [...]

It’s official! The term ‘racebending’ has been added to Urban Dictionary.
Members of the Racebending.com community got the term in this week.  As a member of this group this makes me excited, even though this accomplishment is pretty trivial. One day the ‘racebending’ term won’t just be about the whitewashing of Avatar: The Last Airbender but [...]