Happy New Year from The Amp!
Happy 2024, Amp readers!
When we launched The Amp in November of 2022, our aim was to cultivate a critical space where AAPI artist voices could be heard loudly, clearly, and on our own terms.
Since then, The Amp has published 78 stories, read by nearly 17,000 readers from around the world. These essays, reviews, and interviews tell us that the artists in our community are defiant, healing, inspiring, and reimagining possibilities. We are cyborgian, revealing, expanding, alienated, fractured, and interconnected. Our music is calling on people to mobilize, our artworks are challenging narratives, our films are unpacking the American dream, and our performances are battling cultural assumptions.
As we rein in a new year, I wanted to take this opportunity to highlight some of the biggest stories we’ve published since launching:
To see such an extraordinary multitude and breadth of artistic expression has been deeply affirming as an editor. I am so grateful to the phenomenal writers and photographers we’ve commissioned for lending us their remarkable insight, clarity of thought, and distinctive points of view. Thank you! Without you, The Amp couldn’t exist.
Additionally, I’d like to thank the team at A4 for their steadfast support and profound sense of care. Lisa Gold, Justine Lee, Danielle Wu, Leo Chang, Stephanie Shin, and Maka–thank you for making A4 a home.
Finally, thank you reader! Your continued interest and support are what make this work so worthwhile.
Here’s to another year of strong AAPI cultural voices! Your continued interest and support are what make this work so worthwhile. Consider a donation to help us keep making these stories possible.
Shannon Lee
Editor, The Amp