CSUSM Asian Pacific Islander Desi American Community

03/03/2026

03/03/2026

Support our fundraiser here: https://forms.office.com/r/nyF6xMdDRj

12/02/2025

It's time to give with the heart of a Cougar!

This year we are highlighting the APIDA affiliated groups participating this year, but give to whatever cause your heart feels led to.

- Asian Business Association
- APIDA Student Union
- Kamalayan Alliance
- APIDA Student Center

See all giving day options here: https://connect.csusm.edu/g/giving-day-2025

12/02/2025

There are four chambers of the heart and exactly 6 days until CSUSM Giving Day when our proud Cougar family will come together to support the initiatives closest to our hearts at CSUSM.

Be part of something big and give with the on December 2nd to the Health Assistance Fund Scholarships or Survivor Support Scholarship for supporting students' well-being! Every dollar helps students in need!

https://connect.csusm.edu/g/giving-day-2025



(Image Description: a picture of five of SHCS mental health counselors and crash the cougar kneeling and smiling at a tabling event)

08/27/2025

Jason Magabo Perez, a Cal State San Marcos associate professor of ethnic studies, will be a featured performer at the inaugural KPBS San Diego Book Festival this weekend.

Perez, who’s also the poet laureate emeritus for the City of San Diego, will read some of his poetry on the main stage Saturday from 2:30-3 p.m. at the University of San Diego. He will appear alongside Paola Capo-Garcia, San Diego’s current poet laureate, and award-winning poet Karla Cordero.

Learn more: https://news.csusm.edu/ethnic-studies-professor-to-perform-at-san-diego-book-festival/

08/26/2025

Netflix’s animated film has become the streamer’s second-most-watched movie. Over the weekend, the film did $18–20 million at the box office, putting it above ’s third week of $15.6 million and , which came in at $9.1 million.

“Directors Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans didn’t just deliver a crowd-pleasing confection but a rich visual feast: fight and dance choreography painstakingly timed to musical numbers, heightened visual comedy, and animation that shifts in tempo to capture fluid action and snappy banter alike,” Eric Vilas-Boas writes. And yet, as contemporary as the film may feel, a charmingly primordial animation technique recurs over and over again: the humble “smear frame.”

In animation, smears simulate the blur of a motion. In the fraction of a second, limbs stretch, outlines smudge, and objects double, triple, quadruple, or more. They aren’t intended to be noticed so much as felt, to create subconscious links in your mind between a character or object’s poses so that your brain doesn’t question their movement. And they’re a critical choice for the animator. They must be placed selectively and precisely or risk muddying the rest of a sequence. ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ is full of them, and it uses several of the most common types of smears, sometimes all in the same scene. “It’s impossible to watch this movie and not appreciate the care that ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ ’s artists put into incorporating this technique,” Vilas-Boas writes.

Read more about the visual approach behind what could be Netflix’s biggest movie by the time the Oscars roll around: https://nymag.visitlink.me/sI8Ij1

08/26/2025

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08/23/2025

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Jason Magabo Perez, a Cal State San Marcos associate professor of ethnic studies, will be a featured performer at the inaugural KPBS San Diego Book Festival this weekend.

Perez, who’s also the poet laureate emeritus for the City of San Diego, will read some of his poetry on the main stage Saturday from 2:30-3 p.m. at the University of San Diego. He will appear alongside Paola Capo-Garcia, San Diego’s current poet laureate, and award-winning poet Karla Cordero.

Learn more: https://news.csusm.edu/ethnic-studies-professor-to-perform-at-san-diego-book-festival/

08/21/2025

08/20/2025

"when the producer of our movie was trying to make my deal, he said, he would never have imagined that we would have to talk to Chunk to get Data to be in his movie. Yeah, it was just so sweet!" ❤️

Ke Huy Quan, up until 2022, was best known for playing Short Round in "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom" (1984) and Data in "The Goonies" (1985). Quan stopped acting due to a lack of opportunity in the late 1990s, when he received his film degree from USC School of Cinematic Arts. He went on to work as a stunt coordinator and assistant director. He returned to acting as Waymond Wang in the film "Everything Everywhere All at Once" (2022), a role for which he received critical acclaim, and which earned him an Academy Award for best supporting actor.

Quan admitted that although he felt very good about his audition, it took two months to receive word that he had been cast; he said he took the time to brace himself for rejection.

To prepare himself for his grand return to the silver screen, Quan hired various coaches, including one for dialogue ("I haven't spoken written dialogue in a long time"). A movement coach was also key to finding a way for the audience to determine which Waymond they are seeing at any given time. "They kind of move a little differently. I hope the audience can just distinguish which version they are," the actor said.

In a March 2022 New York Magazine interview with Quan, he said that his entertainment lawyer is his "Goonies" co-star and fellow former child actor Jeff Cohen. Cohen, who played Lawrence "Chunk" Cohen alongside Quan's Richard "Data" Wang in the 1980s children's classic, graduated from UCLA's law school in 2000 and started the entertainment firm Cohen & Gardner in Beverly Hills. During a January 2023 Hollywood Reporter actors' roundtable, Quan said that it was Cohen who drew up his deal to appear in this film: "He's all grown now, he's an entertainment lawyer--he's my entertainment lawyer. So when the producer of our movie was trying to make my deal, he said, he would never have imagined that we would have to talk to Chunk to get Data to be in his movie. Yeah, it was just so sweet!" (IMDb)

Happy Birthday, Ke Huy Quan!

08/16/2025

This is really awesome! It begins with a modern setting and transforms into the stage version.

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