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Bruce Lee’s Lasting Impact on Asian American Identity | The Takeaway Blog | TAAF

I got to do a couple very cool interviews for work recently. First, I spoke with @zentronix.bsky.social about Bruce Lee and Asian American identity.

23.02.2026 20:13 — 👍 9    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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Today marks the 5-month birthday of Water Mirror Echo and our first Mahalo Monday!

We’re celebrating @redemmas, the radical worker-owned co-op bookstore and cafe in the heart of Baltimore. Good books, good food, great politics!

✊🏽 Find them @redemmas and redemmas.org! ✊🏽

23.02.2026 17:10 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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February 18th was historic.

Here are some highlights from the amazing Bruce Lee postage stamp unveiling ceremony here in Seattle. 

Big love to Shannon Lee, Linda Lee Cadwell, Sue Ann Kay, Artis Montgomery, the US Postal service staffs, and the extended Lee + Cadwell families!

20.02.2026 19:53 — 👍 3    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Professor Shereen Marisol Meraji talks to author Jeff Chang about “Water Mirror Echo: Bruce Lee and the Making of Asian America” In WATER MIRROR ECHO: Bruce Lee and the Making of Asian America, award-winning author Jeff Chang delivers a groundbreaking cultural biography of Bruce Lee, timed to Lee’s 85th birthday year in 2025.

Professor Shereen Marisol Meraji talks to author @zentronix.bsky.social about “Water Mirror Echo: Bruce Lee and the Making of Asian America” March 5th @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social. This one's going to be extra.

#ucberkeley #bayareanews #BruceLee

journalism.berkeley.edu/event/author...

18.02.2026 01:30 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Happy Year of the Fire Horse!
The last was 1966, when Bruce Lee began as Kato on the Green Hornet. 
At first the producers gave him no lines. Yet soon Kato began to outshine the star. 
The lesson is: it could be a rough ride, but stick it out and you’ll find your stride. 
 
Wishing you a great year!

17.02.2026 16:22 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Happy Pub Day to @chuckdpe.bsky.social

Proud to celebrate his new book, In The Hour of Chaos: Art & Activism with Public Enemy’s Chuck D! 

The fruits of his master class at UCLA, including bracing convos with top hip-hop scholars.

Available now everywhere!

More info: bit.ly/hourofchaos

10.02.2026 19:23 — 👍 43    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 1
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#WaterMirrorEcho is being hailed as a breakthrough in audiobook storytelling!

Read the whole story at Notes From The Edge: zentronix.substack.com
Listen to the Audiobook now at Audible, Spotify, Apple & wherever audiobooks are sold.

watermirrorecho.net

27.01.2026 22:47 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.

24.01.2026 16:51 — 👍 20914    🔁 7983    💬 144    📌 137

Another murder by immigration enforcement in my district.

I am absolutely horrified that federal agents are targeting and executing our residents instead of protecting them.

ICE and CBP must leave Minnesota immediately. Kristi Noem must be impeached. Enough.

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Demonstrators at the January 7, 2026, evening vigil for Renee Nicole Good. A tall flag reads "Fuck ICE."

Demonstrators at the January 7, 2026, evening vigil for Renee Nicole Good. A tall flag reads "Fuck ICE."

Minneapolis.

08.01.2026 00:43 — 👍 22655    🔁 5427    💬 20    📌 116

Love ya Sheena!

30.12.2025 23:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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It was a year.

Looking back with gratitude and forward with purpose. 

Much more at Substack… open.substack.com/pub/zentronix/

Happy New Year, everyone!

#WaterMirrorEcho

30.12.2025 18:46 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Sounds interesting! Thx so much 🙏🏽 for reading!

27.12.2025 18:00 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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On this episode of Edge of Reason, we speak to the artist Firelei Baez and the writer #EdwidgeDanticat about their shared heritage of resistance.

New episodes drop every week. Listen now wherever you get your podcasts!

Visit our Edge of Reason page: bit.ly/EdgeOfReasonS3

15.12.2025 21:10 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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In this special episode of Edge of Reason, Siddhartha Mitter speaks to the artist Maria Berrio about her newest exhibition, Soliloquy of the Wounded Earth.

New episodes drop every week. Listen now wherever you get your podcasts!

Visit our Edge of Reason page: bit.ly/EdgeOfReasonS3

11.12.2025 17:42 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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On Edge of Reason season 3, we speak to the artist Anj Smith & the curator Zoe Whitley about the artist and the world within.

New epi drops every week. Listen now wherever you get your podcasts!

Visit Edge of Reason: bit.ly/EdgeOfReasonS3

Produced by atlanticrethink + @hauserwirth.bsky.social

08.12.2025 19:46 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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In the 3rdseason of our Signal Award-winning podcast, #EdgeofReason, we speak to #Uman + Nicole Dennis Benn about metamorphosis. 

New episodes drop every week. Listen now wherever u get your podcasts!

Visit our Edge of Reason page: bit.ly/EdgeOfReasonS3

Produced by @atlanticrethink + @hauserwirth

03.12.2025 16:38 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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On the 2nd episode of #NotesFromThe Edge, data scientist Dr. Rumman Chowdhury talks about the stakes of the AI debate.

Hear her, Karen Hao, and DJ Shadow on big tech and our shared future.

Listen at www.kalw.org/show/notes-f... or wherever you get your podcasts!

02.12.2025 17:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

Let me know what you think!

26.11.2025 04:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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My autographed copy of @zentronix.bsky.social's new book has arrived...

19.11.2025 16:19 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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@djshadow.bsky.social has produced some of the most beautiful music of this or any other century.

For Notes from The Edge, we wanted a voice of reason in the current polarized debate over AI. 

Listen at www.kalw.org/show/notes-f... or wherever you get your podcasts!

25.11.2025 16:11 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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For our 2nd episode of Notes from The Edge, we spoke to tech journalist Karen Hao, author of Empire of AI, one of the most important books of the past decade.
Hear Dr. Rumman Chowdhury & also on building ethical technologies & alternative futures! Listen @ kalw.org or wherever you get your podcasts!

21.11.2025 21:04 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Our Signal Award-winning podcast on contemporary artists, Edge of Reason, is back for its third season!

New episodes drop every week. Listen now wherever you get your podcasts!

Visit our Edge of Reason page: bit.ly/EdgeOfReasonS3

Produced by @atlanticrethink + @hauserwirth

#EdgeofReason

12.11.2025 18:19 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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#WaterMirrorEcho is on its Northwest swing!

Here’s me & HelenRaptis at AMnorthwest. The full clip: bit.ly/AMNWBruce

PDX Tonight 7pm - Powell’s Books w/ Walidah Imarisha!

SEA Thurs 7pm at Town Hall Seattle w/ Shannon Lee, Doug Palmer + Sue Ann Kay!

See you soon!

11.11.2025 17:26 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Celebrating Bruce Lee’s 85th bday all month!

Get #WaterMirrorEcho from Bel Canto Books & get a limited-edition art card + bookplate.

Get the incredible *Pancho Villa* by
Bernard James + Bayani Art!

Join us Saturday noon in the LBC Ambitious Ales

Stay tuned for more #Bruce85 announcements soon!

07.11.2025 17:09 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Portland! #WaterMirrorEcho comes to you on Tuesday November 11th!
Join acclaimed writer/educator/poet Walidah Imarisha + Jeff Chang in conversation at 7pm at @powells.bsky.social on Burnside. It will be a night to remember!

06.11.2025 17:45 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.

05.11.2025 12:13 — 👍 19802    🔁 5862    💬 261    📌 744

🐲📕TOMORROW! Don't miss out on hearing Jeff Chang @zentronix.bsky.social and Ursula Liang @ursulaliang.bsky.social in conversation on Bruce Lee at OACC!

Eastwind Books will have copies of WATER MIRROR ECHO for sale.

#Asian #AsianAmerica #BruceLee #JeffChang #BeLikeWater #OACC

04.11.2025 18:24 — 👍 0    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Had a great time chatting with WGNNEWS about Water Mirror Echo.

It’s wild and a little surreal that this book has already been out in the world for a whole month.

Watch the full video www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_Mu...

#WaterMirrorEcho

30.10.2025 17:29 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The rise of Bruce Lee and the rise of Asian America mirrored each other. 
 
Now Bruce is an icon for everyone fighting for justice all around the world. 

This is the last in a ten-episode series, *Ten Ways To See Bruce Lee*.

#WaterMirrorEcho is out now!

Watch all the videos: watermirrorecho.net

28.10.2025 17:38 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1