Kultura
Dallas
Where DAAHS Preserves the Past — Kultura Reads the Present
Upcoming themes include: (Arrival and Place — the DFW Asian American story) (Visibility and Its Costs — Asian American media after 2020) (Family, Memory, and the Archive — what we carry and what gets lost) (Between Worlds — identity, generation, and the work of translation) (Community and Solidarity — Asian American political life in DFW)
800 to 1,200 words | All AAPI, Desi/IndianAmerican, and Filipino American perspectives welcome | Grassroots Reflections
What Is Kultura Dallas?
Kultura Dallas is a public platform for Asian American cultural criticism rooted in Dallas–Fort Worth. We publish essays, reviews, event coverage, and personal writing about film, television, music, art, and the culture around us.
The platform is edited by Jered Mabaquiao, PhD — a Filipino American cultural critic, adjunct professor of English at Dallas College, and board member of the Dallas Asian American Historical Society.
Email: jered@dallasasianhistory.org
Who We Serve
Kultura Dallas is for the full range of people who make up Asian American life in DFW:
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Students looking for cultural criticism that takes their experience seriously
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Educators building curricula that reflect their students’ lives and communities
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Newly arrived community members seeking local resources and cultural touchpoints
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Cultural workers, organizers, and artists moving between sectors
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First-, second-, third-generation Asian Americans navigating identity in the Sunbelt South
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Anyone with a perspective on Asian American life in DFW worth putting into words
"Asian American cinema post-COVID marks an intense moment of media visibility — a critical opening to examine
how film, television, and art reshape politics, culture, and our psychic lives."
— Jered Mabaquiao, PhD · Editor, Kultura Dallas · Board Member, DAAHS
Featured Article
Growing Up
Without It
Most of the Asian American story gets told from the coasts. The Sunbelt South has its own version — quieter, less documented, and no less real. We are looking for reflections on what it means to arrive in, grow up in, or build a life in Dallas–Fort Worth as an Asian American.
Kultura Dallas Details
Content we publish
Additional Content We Publish
Blended Heritage
A dedicated space for Mixed AAPIDIA perspectives, history, and cultural production.
History and Theory
Accessible writing on the ideas and history behind the culture we cover.
Community Voices
Guest contributions from students, educators, organizers, and cultural workers.
The Dallas Asian American Historical Society (DAAHS) researches, preserves, and amplifies the history of Asian Americans in the Dallas area — through oral histories, artifact preservation, exhibitions, and their physical space at South Side on Lamar in The Cedars. Kultura Dallas is the critical media companion to that work.
Submissions responding to DAAHS archival materials — including the Hear Me ROAR oral history series and past exhibitions — are especially welcome. Learn more about DAAHS programming and the growing community archive at dallasasianhistory.org.
Your Voice Belongs Here.
Kultura Dallas organizes community writing around quarterly thematic prompts — calls for reflections that invite writers to engage a specific topic in Asian American culture, history, or community life in DFW. Each call runs for one quarter and results in a published cluster of essays and personal writing.
How to Submit Writing
We accept submissions from anyone with something real to say about Asian American life in DFW and beyond. No academic credentials required. No prior publication history necessary.
01 —Write your piece in any of our content categories. Maximum 1,200 words. Write in your own voice.
02 —Send your draft with a short bio (50 words) to jered@dallasasianhistory.org and Include a working title.
03 —We respond within 2 weeks. Editing notes or revision suggestions within 3–4 weeks. You retain ownership of your work.