#aapi month

Gene Luen Yang Chinese-American comic writer & artist!!!! Most known for his graphic novel American Born Chinese, but also did Superman Smashes the Klan for DC! His other DC works include Monkey Prince and New Super-Man, and at Marvel he wrote Shang-Chi (2021)!

Mariko Tamaki Japanese-Canadian writer & artist!! For DC she's done Supergirl: Being Super, Detective Comics #1034-1061, and Zatanna: Bring Down The House; for Marvel, she's done Hulk (2016) and X-23 (2018). She's also written the graphic novels Roaming and This One Summer illustrated by her cousin, Jillian Tamaki!

Ram V Indian comic writer & artist known for manyyy things including his original works The Many Deaths of Laila Starr and Blue In Green, the gorgeous Detective Comics #1062-1089, New Gods (2024), and The Swamp Thing for DC, and Carnage (2022) for Marvel!

Alyssa Wong American writer of Chinese & Filipino descent, they've written Psylocke (2024) and Captain Marvel (2023) for Marvel, our wonderful Spirit World (2023) for DC, and a variety of Star Wars comics and short stories including Star Wars: Doctor Aphra!

Deniz Camp Filipino-American writer who has recently gotten praise for Absolute Martian Manhunter from DC and The Ultimates from Marvel! At Image Comics, he's written 20th Century Men and is writing the anthology series Assorted Crisis Events!

Michel Mulipola Sāmoan comic artist who's illustrated many WWE issues for BOOM! Studios as well as Upper Deck trading cards for Marvel. He has an upcoming book called Giant Heart coming out in August!

Pornsak Pichetshote Thai-American TV/comics editor & writer known for his works The Good Asian, Infidel, and Exquisite Corpses. He also oversaw the CW DC shows, and the first issue of his Absolute Green Arrow arrives this month!

Dustin Nguyen Vietnamese-American artist with a wonderful style you can find in Robin & Batman, Batman: L'il Gotham, Batman: The Streets of Gotham, and Descender and Ascender!

Marjorie Liu Chinese-American writer known for her series Monstress, she is the first woman to ever win the Eisner Award for Best Writer! At Marvel she's written Black Widow (2010), X-23 (2010), and NYX: No Way Home (2010)!

Steve Leialoha Native Hawaiian comic artist with decades of experience including inking/drawing for Spider-Woman, Howard the Duck, Uncanny X-Men, and Justice League International. He won an Eisner for his work in Fables!

Janice Chiang Chinese-American letterer with a long and prolific career, lettering fan favourites such as Spirit World, Superman Smashes the Klan, and Shadow of the Batgirl!

Greg Pak Korean-American writer and director known for his Marvel stories Planet Hulk, The Totally Awesome Hulk, and X-Treme X-Men (2012). For DC he wrote City Boy and Batman/Superman (2013), and he has his own series Mech Cadet Yu!

Nidhi Chanani Indian-American artist known for her children's graphic novels Pashmina, Jukebox, and Super Boba Café. She also has a bunch of adorbable picture books such as What Will My Story Be? and Quiet Karima!

shoutout to micronesian selfshippers!!

shoutout to polynesian selfshippers!!

shoutout to all pacific islander selfshippers!!!!

Nav: Photoshoot Duo/Esther/Tara // Shoot & Styling Background // Macaron Design Background // Ferghana Design Background

"Call her briar rose or smth tho bc those 12 ft long braids kept picking up thorns on the hills" - Yulan

Pt. 2 of our AAPI series: Meet Esther, our model for the Macaron set! 🍬

A born-and-raised Bay Area resident of Chinese-Mongolian heritage aptly born in the Year of the Horse, Esther works in software engineering and enjoys baking, thrifting, and bouldering in her free time. We chose Esther for this look to help represent the bridge between Mongolian / northern steppe heritage and the Central Plains influences that shaped this style of hanfu.

Our Macaron set is named after a Chinese horse pun: “馬卡龍” is the transliteration of “macaron,” but literally reads “horse-card-dragon.” Keeping with the dessert theme, we designed this set in pastel confectionary colors and styled Esther with pastel eyeshadow shades to match! 🍭

Historically, this outfit draws from Northern Dynasty dress and the legacy of the “胡服騎射” policy — “wearing Hu (non-Han) clothing and shooting from horseback.” During the Warring States period, King Wuling of Zhao promoted the adoption of cavalry-friendly clothing elements associated with non-Han horse-riding peoples of the northern steppes, many connected to the lands of present-day Mongolia and Inner Mongolia. Over time, these styles became integrated into Hanfu. The pants in the Macacron set, for example, are a hybrid of hundred-pleat skirt and lantern pants, literally “百褶燈籠褲” or hundred-pleat lantern pants. The belt is made of imitation Songjin brocade, and features a pattern of golden horses galloping through waves, humorously titled “馬上有錢” 🧧

For styling, we gave Esther dramatic 12-foot-long twin carabiner braids, a modern nod to braided hairstyles long associated with many nomadic steppe cultures for beauty, identity, and practicality on horseback. And if you catch a glimpse of her nails, they’re hand-painted press-ons featuring horse artwork from a small studio in Inner Mongolia!

For AAPI Month, we’re celebrating the many ways heritage moves: across borders, across generations, and across the stories we choose to wear. 🐎

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AAPI month is upon us once again, and despite the current state of the world, we'd like to take a moment to appreciate our rich, diverse culture in this community and across the globe. take this month to give your local asian $100...and some promo, too, of course!! (please mention any blogs we may have missed, we want to reach as many beings as possible!!)

Asian Coiner Shoutout

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@rwuffles - the infamous rwuffles!! a huge contributor to the mogai community and also the host of 2025's AAPI coining event. has coined many vietnamese terms such as red lotus (link), người chuột (link), and descelongem (link) amongst many others!

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@lotusqai - a recently made asian centric(?) mogai blog featuring our favourite chinese terms of all time...zhongguofengic (link) and buddhist terms such as omnisamsara (link) being examples!!

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@angelomour - a personal favourite of ours...a jirai themed blog that probably has more flags than we have hairs on our head /j. unbelievably talented, whether that be flags such as [x]4pstar (link) and our personal favourite various lotus genders (link) that it coined!

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@transfemmav - a newer blog, though currently on hiatus, that makes many cultural terms such as skipper butterfly (link) and both black and latine terms like black eyed susan vine (link) and ariranha (link)!!

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@pawbeans-flags - a coining blog with many well known [x]symbol templates! ex. [x]astrosun (link), semicol[x] (link), and infini[x] being popular ones. has tons of variety such as transmasculine apple pie (link) and alt femboy (link).

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@thecloudservice - yet another mogai coining blog with lots of variety to choose from!! has coined lovely terms such as turkomongolinguic (link), employedqueer (link), footboy (link), and many others that are worth checking out!

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@svd-mogai - a coining blog with unique flags of all kinds that range from pronoun flags like their 彼女 pronoun flag (link), recently coined timeline shock flag (link), and many paiviane terms such as paiviolivetrees (link)!

Final Thoughts & Notes

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although we currently aren't sure of any asian archivists other than ourselves, please be sure to let us know if we missed anyone when possible!! this month has made us very sappy so please forgive the quick ramble, but we love this community so dearly and have a lot of familial and emotional attachment to the asian community as a whole. we are so so fond of each and every one of you. despite the setbacks and rampant western presence of a majority of the mogai community, we are steadily making progress, and that means something.

to non-asian individuals reading this, please take this month as an opportunity to listen and uplift asian voices. reblog asian terms, promote and advocate for asians outside and inside this community, and more than importantly, be kind and willing to learn. diversity is so, so beautiful- and on that note, we'll be taking this month as a time to discuss discourse within the mogai community in regards to asian culture and just really embrace our identity as an asian canadian!! thank you so much for reading!!