FEATURED SPEAKING:
Tracing the Fault Lines of Misinformation, Nobel Prize Summit 2023
PODCASTS:
“Beyond the Moment of Protest: Can Social Movements Be More Robust Than the Systems They Oppose?” (May 2023) Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy S4, E14
“Across Oceans, Tables, and Platforms.” (July 2021). Does Not Compute, E5.
“We Hear You: Community Responses to Anti-Asian Racism” (October 2020) Self Evident, E12
“AGGIE - with Mahogany Browne, Adnan Khan, and Tanya Selvaratnam” (October 2020) Film Forum Presents
Abolition 101 (June 27, 2020) Season of the B, E27
#8toAbolition (June 15, 2020) Millennials Are Killing Capitalism
Not Your Apolitical Asians: Rachel Kuo on the Asian American Feminist Collective (2019) PhDivas, S4E20.
How Do We Make the Revolution Fun? (June 19, 2019) Sweet and Sour, E30
INTERVIEWS:
“What the chaos at Twitter means for the future of social movements” (June 11, 2023) CNN
“Worries mount about misinformation in science.” (May 28, 2023) Axios
”Conspiracy Theories Have a New Best Friend” (March 2, 2023) The Atlantic
“Right-wing Disinformation Ramps Up on WeChat Ahead of Midterms” (October 3, 2022) NBC Asian America
“Racist and Sexist Disinformation is Sowing Divisions among Asian Americans” (August 12, 2022) NBC Asian America
“We Were Supposed to Help Asian Migrant Women—Instead We Got Police.” The Nation. (September 8, 2021)
“The Spectacle of Anti-Asian Violence on Instagram” (April 14, 2021) Vox
‘‘It’s race, class and gender together’: Why the Atlanta Killings Aren’t Just About One Thing (March 18, 2021) Washington Post
Fetishized, Sexualized and Marginalized, Asian Women are Uniquely Vulnerable to Violence (March 17, 2021) CNN
‘Basically Cyberbulling’: How Cops Abuse Social Media to Publicly Humiliate (December 21, 2020) The Appeal
Asian American Feminist Collective Creating Digital Frameworks (October 3, 2020) Keke Magazine
The Second Act of Social Media Activism (August 3, 2020) New Yorker
Activists United to Abolish the Police. Here’s What They Learned (June 30, 2020) NoFilter
Making Asian American Feminist Politics (June 11, 2020) NYU Institute for Social Development and Human Change
These 8 Steps for Abolition Go Further than #8CantWait (June 10, 2020) Fast Company
Who Was Grace Lee Boggs, the Asian American Labor Organizer and Writer (May 27, 2020) Teen Vogue
Anti-Asian Racism is on the Rise during Coronavirus, But It’s Nothing New (April 17, 2020) Teen Vogue
Race and Resiliency in Community Care: Coronavirus in NYC (April 10, 2020) New York Times
Transcript: The AAFC’s Rachel Kuo on the Multiplicity of Asian American Communities (November 6, 2018) The Slant
Asian American Feminist Collective Roundtable (February 18, 2019) LADYGUNN
AAFC on Interrogating What It Means to Be Asian in America (July 3, 2019) Spicy Zine
14 Powerful Portraits Showing the Diversity of Asian-American Feminism (Sept. 5, 2018) Broadly
““Back end” work in digital activism “reflects broader [movement] concerns and visions around community safety, accessibility, and accountability.” ”
““When we mobilize around Asian American identity, we’re talking about a category that encompasses a whole swathe of differences that are often unequal and linked to asymmetrical and uneven histories and encounters with state violence and empire.””
““It’s important to have spaces to navigate the shifting meanings of feminist politics from Asian American perspectives — that enables us to think and act critically in relation to people in our communities to pursue a vision of collective liberation.””
SPEAKING & PRESENTATIONS:
Invited talks:
December 1, 2022 - “Beyond Fact-Checking: Narratives and Emotions In Imaginative Counter-Disinformation Strategies Across Southeast Asia” @ ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute
October 20, 2022 - “Rethinking Big Tech: Toward a More Democratic Internet” @ University of Pennsylvania’s Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy
October 16, 2020 - “What Does An Abolitionist Asian American Politics Look Like?" @ University of California-San Diego
August 28, 2020 - “Practices of (Re)Presentation: Zines, Visualizations, Outreach” @ Histories of AI, Sawyer Mellon Seminar
August 9, 2020: “Cultures of Tech: Studying and Working in Silicon Valley+” @ American Sociological Association, Science, Knowledge, and Technology Invited Session
September 30, 2019: “Women of Color Feminist Network(ing)” @ Afro-Asia Working Group, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
September 17, 2019: “Movement Technologies: Alternate Values in Design” @ AI Now, New York City
April 10 2019: “Movement Building in Racialized Operating Systems” @ Data & Society, New York City
November 28, 2018: “Mediating Solidarities: Asian American Political Formations in Digital Ecosystems” @ Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, Boston, MA
October 16, 2018: “Keynote: A Conversation on Racial Justice, Campus Dissent, and Practicing Accountability” @ Emerson College, Boston, MA
conference presentations:
November 10, 2019: “Burning Quickly, Building Slowly: The Time of Rapid Response.” @ American Studies Association, Honolulu, HI
October 19, 2019: “Building Slowly and Intimately: Women of Color Feminist Network(ing).” @ Radical Networks, New York City
April 27, 2019: “Together in the Belly of the Monster: Women of Color Feminist Networks” @ Association for Asian American Studies, Madison, WI
October 20, 2017: “Racial Justice Activist Hashtags and Counterpublics: Circulations and Discourses of Solidarity” @ Association of Internet Research, Tartu, Estonia
December 9, 2016: “Justice and Kinship: Media Trails of Akai Gurley and Peter Liang” @ Comparative Racialization & the Future of Asian American Studies, New York, NY
October 6, 2016: “History of GIFs as Networked Black Cultural Production” @ Association of Internet Research, Berlin, Germany (with Charlton McIlwain & Diane Kamin)
PANELS & ROUNDTABLES:
June 25, 2020: “Abolition Can’t Wait: A Teach-In with #8toAbolition” @ Haymarket Books
May 27, 2019: “The Political Stakes of Knowledge Production: Race, Technology, and Social Movements” for Panel: #CommunicationSoWhite @ International Communications Association, Washington. D.C.
March 30, 2018: “#NotYourModelMinority: Digital Shifts of Racial Positioning” for Panel: Technologies of Solidarity @ Association for Asian American Studies, San Francisco, CA
November 11, 2017: "Will the Internet Save or Destroy Us? A Roundtable with Critical Race Digital Scholars,” @ American Studies Association, Chicago, IL