Category: Candid Perspectives
Martial Law Comes To Broadway
by Emil Guillermo Unlike other mostly white reviewers of Here Lies Love, the new Broadway musical that plays into the seduction of the notorious Marcos family of [Read More…]
Can Lapu-Lapu In “1521” Draw A Crowd Like Olivia Rodrigo?
by Emil Guillermo Are you ready to kill the colonizer? You can on Oct. 2 from just about any AMC theater in the country. If [Read More…]
Clear Choice? Trump’s Mugshot, Biden By The Banyan
by Emil Guillermo It’s been a historic week in America. After a debate featuring eight Republicans who couldn’t get arrested, we now have one Republican [Read More…]
Trump’s Three Strikes, But Soon A Fourth
by Emil Guillermo I started performing my latest Amok monologue, “Emil Amok: Lost NPR Host…” in San Francisco on Aug. 12, 17 and 19. It’s [Read More…]
“Here Lies Love,” or Just “Her Lies?” The Autocratic Dictatorship of Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos on Broadway
by Emil Guillermo When People Power forced the Marcoses to flee in disgrace, Hawaii was there to soften the fall of the dictator. Are Hawaii [Read More…]
The U.S. Supreme Court Loves You If You’re White, Rich, And Straight
by Emil Guillermo As it closed out its most recent term, the U.S. Supreme Court showed how far it will go to protect a dwindling [Read More…]
Conservative SCOTUS Teases Us On Affirmative Action, Racial Equality
by Emil Guillermo If you’ve been following the Pro Publica reporting on Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito and their failure to disclose [Read More…]
The Trump Indictments Unsealed and Why Won’t Waltine Nauta Flip?
by Emil Guillermo The Waltine Nauta Scale? That’s part of the broader unofficial “loyalty scale” Asian Americans know all too well from U.S. history. For [Read More…]
Tongi Wins Idol, Asians Get Into Harvard
by Emil Guillermo I don’t know about you, but I think I’d rather be an “American Idol” than a Harvard matriculate. But we all know [Read More…]
Trump’s New Yellow Peril: Will Filipinos–And All Asian Americans–Get Caught
by Emil Guillermo I know only a small number of Filipinos like to use the term “Asian” or even “Asian American.” And now there’s data [Read More…]
