Hyphen will be part of a new exhibit, Magazine Fever: Gen X Asian American Periodicals, at The Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) in New York City. The show opens on October 3, 2024 and will run through March 30, 2025.
Magazine Fever presents stories of Generation X magazines — how they were founded and sustained; how they captured the essence of multiculturalism and Generation X paradigms, and how they impacted the ways Asian American identity is understood today. (For the record, though, the Hyphen staff includes Gen Xers and millennials.) Drawn from MOCA’s archives, the exhibit includes A. Magazine, AsiAm, AsianWeek, Audrey, Giant Robot, Hyphen, Jade, KoreAm, Rice, Transpacific, YOLK, and others.
MOCA TALKS: The Making of Asian American Magazines
October 3, 2024, 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
On Magazine Fever’s opening night, MOCA will host a discussion on the creation and evolution of Asian American magazines with the founders and editors behind some of the most influential publications, including Melissa Hung, Hyphen’s founding editor in chief. These pioneers will share their experiences and challenges in launching and sustaining culturally specific publications in a pre-internet era, where ethnic media served as crucial platforms for representation and community building.
This free event will both be in person and online. Register here.
Hyphen Merch Revival
To celebrate the exhibit, we are re-releasing Hyphen merch! If you, like us, no longer fit into your first Hyphen T-shirt, you can now get a replacement. Visit our new storefront on Tee Public, where you can find our iconic bowl cut and pocket protector designs. (Please note that we are only offering merchandise on Tee Public, so if you find it on another site, it is a copycat and those proceeds will not go to your friendly neighborhood indie magazine.)
Shop Hyphen merch here.