PinnedDerek LuinPop Culture LemonadeI Do It For YouAs I embark on this teaching journey, I can’t help but be flooded with emotions. Excitement about meeting my students, nervousness for the…3 min read·Aug 16, 2021----
PinnedDerek LuinPop OffWaiting for Superman and Finding MyselfLearning to love myself as a queer Asian American man, in spite of Hollywood.·4 min read·Jun 29, 2021----
PinnedDerek LuinPerceive More!Ambient Affect, Racial Disaffection and Attacks on Asian AmericansThis is my attempt to make sense of the so-called senseless attack that resulted in the deaths of 6 Asian women in Atlanta, GA on 3.16.·12 min read·Apr 3, 2021----
PinnedDerek LuinPop OffThe Flight Attendant (2020) — LoveDrunk Murder on Cloud 9The show compellingly blends a Hitchcockian murder mystery with an intimate character study on surviving addiction and trauma.·6 min read·Dec 24, 2020----
Derek LuinPop OffTop Songs of 2020: Black Women Reigned SupremeMy picks for this year’s best songs include pop’s reigning king, artists who reinvented themselves and the most important voice in country.·9 min read·Dec 31, 2020----
Derek LuinAn Injustice!Monsoon (2020) — a solemn meditation on mourning, identity, and dislocationHong Khaou’s quiet indie drama reflects on the ways in which loss and trauma become internalized and inexpressible over a lifetime·7 min read·Dec 22, 2020----
Derek LuinPop Culture LemonadeThe STEM to Riches Pipeline: Model Minorities Dream of White PrivilegeScience, Technology, Engineering and Math·2 min read·Sep 21, 2020----
Derek LuinPop OffTo #BoycottMulan or Not? A ‘Reflection’Reasons not to boycott Mulan: Christina Aguilera’s magnificent re-recording of Reflection.·4 min read·Sep 12, 2020--1--1
Derek LuinAn Injustice!Insurgency: Audre Lorde, Megan thee Stallion, and Combating MisogynoirThis piece bridges the writings of Audre Lorde on Black womanhood with the shooting of Megan thee Stallion and the toxicity of misogynoir·8 min read·Aug 28, 2020--1--1
Derek LuinPop Culture LemonadeMisogynoir: Where Racism and Misogyny MeetWe need to talk about misogynoir. No, not misogyny, but misogynoir — the racially specific, gender-based oppression that Black women face.·6 min read·Jul 25, 2020----