Month: March 2021

Asian American-owned businesses making efforts to protect staff after slew of attacks

3 weeks ago Maybelle D. Payne

Many Asian American business owners, especially women, now are taking additional measures to protect employees — and themselves — after a string of racially motivated attacks throughout the U.S.

Included among those is the recent shooting in Georgia, where six of the eight who were killed were women of Asian descent.

Xi’an Famous Foods, a restaurant chain in New York City, closed 14 locations in March 2020 when the pandemic began ramping up. Locations have begun reopening, but they now close an hour earlier, and are closed all day on Sunday, as part of an effort to help ensure employees can return home during hours with more people on the streets and more easily via public transit.

“A couple of our employees, however, were still attacked during rush hour times, despite our best efforts, which happened late summer, early fall in two different incidents,” Jason Wang, founder of Xi’an

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Why Have Fashion and Beauty Brands Failed to Respond to Anti-Asian Hate?

3 weeks ago Maybelle D. Payne

Fashion brands are expected to be quick to respond to news-making incidents of racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, and anti-feminism.

After six Asian women were among those killed in the recent shootings in Atlanta, the violence and discrimination experienced by Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) have become urgently discussed issues. One of the most surprising things was how silent the fashion industry was—particularly luxury brands, of which Asians are the largest demographic consumer.

Since the beginning of the pandemic, reports from the U.K. to Australia have found that hate crimes against East and Southeast Asian people have risen. In the U.S., the AAPI Hate National Report found that verbal harassment and shunning (the deliberate avoidance of Asian Americans) lead the types of discrimination experienced by AAPI people, at 68.1 percent and 20.5 percent respectively. Physical assault is the third largest category; 11.1 percent of respondents reported

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Northwest car club Beauty & Keys is putting women in the driver’s seat

3 weeks ago Maybelle D. Payne

SNOQUALMIE, Wash. —
It’s a group that combines a love of cars and cosmetics. And they do them both full throttle.

“Beauty and Keys started, was born because I really liked to go on drives. And I noticed that most of the time, I was the only woman in the driver’s seat. And so I thought there must be more women who really like to drive just like me. And so I combined my two favorite things which are cars and cosmetics and made Beauty and Keys.”

Founder Jamei June has been leading the club for 3 years now. Her female-focused driving events include winter SUV rides and Ferrari rides. And fun mingling opportunities like Car Girls and Cocktails.

“Every single time a woman comes to one of my drives each time they become more confident, and they become more fun and freer. And then they bring more

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Blanca Padilla Let’s Us In On Her Supermodel Beauty Routine

3 weeks ago Maybelle D. Payne

Model Blanca Padilla spends a great deal of time on set in the makeup chair, so when it comes to her personal beauty routine, the girl likes to keep things simple. The perfect example is her latest Instagram post, where she shared a 10-minute, almost-five product beauty routine.

read more: GEORGIA FOWLER ON FRAGRANCE, FASHION AND IN-FLIGHT SKINCARE

First up, Padilla applied a serum to damp hair, before moisturizing her skin and going in with a handful of makeup products: concealer to even out and illuminate the complexion, a subtle contour stick, eyelash curler and mascara, highlighter, brows, lipliner and lipstick on both the lips and cheeks. She omits the lip stuff out of the “five product count” but admittedly it still seems slightly over-seven not including the eyelash curler? Either way, it’s definitely minimalist and judging by the beautiful end result, we’re absolutely taking notes.

See Padilla in action

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Opinion | D.C. once had an Indigenous queen, Cockacoeske, the Queen of Pamunkey. Remember her story.

3 weeks ago Maybelle D. Payne

D.C. once had an Indigenous queen. Her name was Cockacoeske, the Queen of Pamunkey. She lived from 1610 to 1686. During that time, area tribal leaders attended an intertribal “caucus” convened at the site of today’s Capitol Hill, where they met to establish mutually beneficial tribal rights. Powhatan, the paramount chief of the Powhatan Paramountcy (and the father of Pocahontas), was known to have attended the caucus gatherings in his lifetime. Queen Cockacoeske was denied the opportunity to attend caucus gatherings because of increased violence from English settlers.

Queen Cockacoeske also had extended kin in the area. One of Powhatan’s wives was a Tauxenent Indian female. Their son was named Taux Powhatan to honor her. He and Pocahontas were half-siblings. Queen Cockacoeske’s father was Opechancanough, Powhatan’s brother. Although Queen Cockacoeske had a son named John West, he wasn’t qualified to be paramount chief because of Pamunkey tradition. Queen

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Do Avon Reps Relocate Domestic Violence Survivors for Free?

3 weeks ago Maybelle D. Payne

Survivors of domestic violence in the United States should avoid relying on the information presented in the following video. If you need help, call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1.800.799.SAFE (7233). There are also state-specific resources available here.

A viral TikTok video with more than a million views and thousands of shares across social media platforms made misleading claims about resources for survivors of domestic violence and the cosmetics company Avon.

(Warning: The following video shows a purported survivor of domestic violence with injuries on her face.)

The video, which went viral in March 2021, begins with a short clip of a crying woman who appears to have facial injuries saying, “I never thought at 30 years old, I would be in a position to feel ashamed.” The video then cuts to a different woman who appears to be TikTok user deegraham43 saying, “You don’t have anything to

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