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author of✨NOT YOUR CHINA DOLL✨a new biography of #AnnaMayWong, out now from @DuttonBooks & @FaberBooks. posting at kayteesal.bsky.social

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Katie Gee Salisbury’s Biography

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I'm Katie, a storyteller based in Brooklyn. I'm a writer, editor, and photographer whose work has appeared in The Ringer, Marie Claire, VICE, Refinery29, Roads & Kingdoms, On Being, the Asian American Writers' Workshop, and elsewhere.

Most recently, I was an editorial fellow at Guernica magazine. As a Spring 2017 TED Resident, I gave a TED Talk titled "As American as Chop Suey" about my photojournalism project on Chinese restaurant workers in New York. The photos and stories of these workers a…

Katie Gee Salisbury’s Journalist Portfolio

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American Dreams in a Chinese Takeout

American Dreams in a Chinese Takeout

The grueling nature of Chinese restaurant work in the U.S. has been well-documented, but the immigrants livin…

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How These Refugee Women Taught Me the True Meaning of Motherhood

How These Refugee Women Taught Me the True Meaning of Motherhood

When I landed in Berlin on a snowy morning in January, there was a new voicemail from my mom on my phone. I h…

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The Crisis That's Still Tearing Families Apart - In Photos

The Crisis That's Still Tearing Families Apart - In Photos

I sat with four other women at a makeshift table, holding warm mugs of chai in our hands and chatting as thou…

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The Saturday Rumpus Interview: Vivian Lee

The Saturday Rumpus Interview: Vivian Lee

The Saturday Rumpus Interview: Vivian Lee Vivian Lee is the kind of editor you want on your team: a writer at…

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The Women of the Syrian Refugee Crisis

The Women of the Syrian Refugee Crisis

So much of war is viewed through the lens of politics and violence: men behind podiums and men with guns. Rar…

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The Next Bite Is Never Better Than the Last

The Next Bite Is Never Better Than the Last

Tell people you're sojourning through Spain and Basque country, and all they want to talk about is the great …

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Lee Sung Jin on Season Two of “Beef”

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By Lee Sung Jin, Zachary Lee, Katie Gee Salisbury
| Asian American Arts Alliance Verified
Meaner and more expansive than its predecessor, the second season of Lee Sung Jin’s Beef mines disquieting and all too relatable thrills from the discordance between (and within) its characters. It once again focuses on how, under capitalism, misgivings become an opportunity to exploit, reframing the context of our relationships. Through this consuming lens, we start to view people only in terms of how we can use them.
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This Japanese Actor Was One of Hollywood’s First Heartthrobs

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By Katie Gee Salisbury
| The History Channel Verified
Sessue Hayakawa was a sex symbol of the silent era. Published: May 02, 2025 Last Updated: May 02, 2025 In December 1915, newspaper advertisements boasted of a new film called The Cheat, starring the renowned stage actress Fannie Ward in her first on-screen role. Little mentioned was the male lead, a Japanese actor named Sessue Hayakawa who had, up until recently, been playing small parts. Within a week of the film’s release, all that would change.
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Review: ‘Amerikin’ Asks Questions About Identity, Family And Race

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By Katie Gee Salisbury
| Observer Verified
Daniel Abeles in Amerikin. Justin Swader “White Supremacist Hopeful Becomes Target of His Own Hate.” So reads the headline that undergirds Chisa Hutchinson’s play Amerikin, a tragricomedy that registers closer to reality than fiction. Produced by Primary Stages for its Off-Broadway debut, the show tells the story of Jeffrey Browning, a young father with a new baby and a wife coping with postpartum depression in Sharpsburg, Maryland. Sharpsburg looms large in American history.
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