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Kevin Wong

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Kevin is an AP English Language teacher and freelance writer from Queens, NY. His focus is on video games, American pop culture, and Asian American issues. Kevin has also been published in VIBE, Complex, Joystiq, Gawker Media, PopMatters, WhatCulture, and Racialicious. You can email him at kevinjameswong@gmail.com and follow him on Twitter @kevinjameswong.

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How Margaret Cho revives “Fashion Police”: Performing fashion snark as “a woman of color, as a queer woman, as someone who is plus-sized and very proud of my fat”

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Mr. Burns and Smithers in "The Simpsons" (Fox)

“The Simpsons” can’t survive this: Harry Shearer is the soul of Springfield — if he leaves, fans will follow

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Grow up, inner child: I survived adult preschool play-for-pay, but I’m not going back

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White people: Don’t get offended on Margaret Cho’s behalf

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Is Kanye West the next John Lennon?

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What Bill O’Reilly gets wrong about Asian Americans

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Randall Park and Constance Wu in "Fresh Off the Boat" (ABC)

ABC’s “Fresh off the Boat” could be a disaster for Asian Americans

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Beyond the wedgies: How we oversimplify schoolyard bullying

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Bring Brian back to “Family Guy”!

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Max Payne 3 (AP/Rockstar Games)

For video games, a moral reckoning is coming

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