We especially love stories that challenge our assumptions about Asian American experiences, reveal the complicated webs that lie beyond ethnic identities, tackle some of our hardest decisions in life. We’ll offer some topics and broad story types we’d like work on... but if you have a pitch that doesn’t line up with any of these, feel free to submit it anyway!

- Psychedelics in the year 2021 (no, seriously)

- Decisions and family conversations around having kids (or not)

- Going back to school against the backdrop of vaccination and anti-Asian racism (seriously, we want to know what you and your kids are navigating right now)

- Asian American choices and challenges in organized religion and faith groups ...but also how Asian Americans navigate spiritual connection not necessarily in organized settings

- The borders in our lives… whether that’s relating to, say, Iranian immigrant students still dealing with the consequences of American Travel bans or Midwestern families building routines around supply chains that lead to H Mart

- Living right now as a trans Asian American who also is many other things to many people (we’re not looking to make a single, hermetically sealed episode that “explains transgender identity” or reduces anyone’s experiences to simply being trans)

- Stories from rural communities and non-coastal areas

- Stories from Pacific Islander communities