Carmel Tanaka has been featured numerous times in local and international news outlets. She also moonlights as a writer and cook! Here is a selection of news articles.
MIXED ASIAN MEDIA
Carmel Tanaka: JEWPANESE Trailblazer for the Mixed Asian Future
By Stephanie Mieko Cohen
Photo description: Carmel (center) with MAM writer Stephanie Mieko Cohen (L) and MAM Editor-in-Chief Alex Chester-Iwata (R)
Carmel Tanaka is a Japanese Canadian, Jewish, queer woman who is paving the path for mixed race individuals all over the world. While she wears many different hats, her newest project, the JEWPANESE Oral History Project, focuses on sharing stories and archiving memories of Jewish and Japanese people. I met with Carmel on Zoom, and we talked for over two hours! Here is just a bit of our conversation.
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Jewish Independent: Queer Jews are feeling isolated
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Lilith Magazine: Caring For, and Learning From, Queer and Trans Elders
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Jewish Independent: Highlighting seniors’ issues
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Jewish Independent: New LGBTQ+ resource guide
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Courrier Japon / クーリエ・ジャポン : 「ジューパニーズ（ユダヤ日系人）」と呼ばれる人々を知っていますか？
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Haaretz: Meet the Canadian Woman on a Quest to Put ‘Jewpanese’ on the Map
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Forward: Meet the Jews of color exploring what it means to be Black, Asian, Latino — and Jewish
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JWeekly: Growing ‘Jewpanese’ identity comes through in new oral history project
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HeyAlma: Meet The Klezbians
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Lilith Magazine: Community Engagement as Art
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Jewish Independent: Walking tours celebrate Pride
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Jewish Independent: Thirteen calls to action
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The Geppo-Bulletin: Cross Cultural Walking Tours 2022 & Jewpanese Oral History Project - Sign Up!
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ADL: Collaborative for Change Fellowship Offers Jews of Color Opportunity to Share Their Stories
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Stir: JQT celebrates the "queering" of Jewish Heritage Month, through May
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Jewish Independent: Bringing community together
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Jewish Independent: Chosen Family now at Zack
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Jewish Independent: Vernon's Jewish community
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The Tyee: ‘A Lot of Us, We Can’t Be Loud and Proud’
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CBC The Early Edition with Stephen Quinn: There are ways to successfully bring people together during covid-19
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Elimin8Hate Style Guide: Reporting on Asian Canadian Communities
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UBC INSTRCC: ACAM 390A Guest Lecture: Carmel Tanaka (Cross Cultural Walking Tours)
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Stir Q&A: Carmel Tanaka of Elimin8hate on anti-Asian racism, the media, and her great grandmother's protest letters
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18Doors: Feeling Unheard as a Jewish, Queer Asian Woman
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JTA: ‘This has been exhausting’: Asian-American Jews on the Atlanta spa murders and rising anti-Asian hate crimes, in their own words
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The Geppo-Bulletin: Jewpanese Family Zoom Call
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The Geppo-Bulletin: Jewpanese Maple KaboChallah
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Heritage Vancouver: Shaping Vancouver 2019: Conversation 4 What's Happening To Heritage?
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The Georgia Straight: Strathcona walking tour highlights contributions of Vancouver’s early immigrant communities
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Vancouver Sun: Vancouver advocates demand protection for Asian and migrant women and sex workers
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Vancouver is Awesome: Being Jewish 'and something else' offers lesson in diversity
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Be'chol Lashon: Matcha Cheesecake for Shavuot? Yes, Please
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Be'chol Lashon: “Jewpanese” Foodie Shares Rosh Hashanah Recipes
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Be'chol Lashon: 7 LGBTQ+ Jews of Color You Should Know
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Be'chol Lashon: Three Diverse Jews on Why Sukkot Is Especially Meaningful This Year
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Jewish Exponent: LGBTQ Orgs Partner for Chanukah Celebration
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Times Colonist: Campus-wide Hanukkah celebration a first for UVic
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HighHolidays@Home By Haggadot.com: Jewpanese Maple KaboChallah
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Jewish Independent: Recording LGBTQ+ history
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Jewish Independent: A focus on the environment
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Jewish Independent: The “choosing people”
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Jewish Independent: Best Pride presence to date
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Jewish Independent: Meet the JI’s 18 Under 36 honourees – our second group
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Jewish Independent: History lesson on foot
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Jewish Independent: Retracing family history
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Jewish Independent: Holocaust awareness
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Jewish Independent: Going from brokenness to wholeness
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The Jerusalem Post: We are not ‘frierim,’ either