Biography
Phil Yu is a Peabody Award-winning writer, speaker and host best known as the creator of Angry Asian Man, one of the most widely read and longest-running independent websites covering news, culture and perspectives from the Asian American community. He is co-author of the New York Times Best Seller book RISE: A Pop History of Asian America From the Nineties to Now (with Jeff Yang and Philip Wang).
The Washington Post calls Angry Asian Man “a daily must-read for the media-savvy, socially conscious, pop-cultured Asian American.” Mixing humor with criticism, Phil’s commentary has been featured and quoted in the New York Times, National Public Radio, CNN, MSNBC, Wall Street Journal, BuzzFeed, Entertainment Weekly and more.
Phil is co-host of the podcast They Call Us Bruce, “an unfiltered conversation on what’s happening in Asian America”; co-host of Squid Game: The Official Podcast for Netflix; host/producer of All The Asians On Star Trek, the podcast in which he interviews all the Asians on Star Trek; and founding former host/executive producer of the Korean Drama Podcast, “the K-Drama rewatch podcast by (and for) people who don’t watch Korean dramas.”
Articles, Publications, and Appearances
NPR: Angry Asian Man Not So Angry
NBC News: Phil Yu On Growing Up Korean American & Becoming Angry Asian Man
Star Trek: The Pod Directive — Phil Yu’s Talking to All the Asians on Star Trek
How Abercrombie’s Racist T-shirts Motivated a Generation of Asian Americans
Simu Liu is hitting new heights with Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
Squid Game: The Official Podcast
RISE: A Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now