Memoirs of a Superfan was supported for 14 years by the Center for Asian American Media. East Wind ezine is proud to continue this series as it branches out from its primary focus on CAAMFest to broader cultural issues and resonances.
Memoirs of a Superfan at East Wind eZine
Author’s Bio:
Ravi Chandra is a psychiatrist and writer in San Francisco. For fourteen years, he was lucky to have his MOSF posts published by the Center for Asian American Media, and now looks forward to broadening and building a diverse creative community and coalition through jamming on film, literature, nonfiction, music and all the arts for East Wind ezine. He writes from the metaphorical intersection of The Fillmore and Japantown in San Francisco, where Black and Asian communities have mingled since the end of the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. He literally works there, between two Indian restaurants, go figure. You can find him on Psychology Today, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, SoundCloud, or better yet, in the IRL.
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For 14 years, the Center for Asian American Media hosted the Memoirs of a Superfan film blog, primarily as a document of the CAAMFest/SFIAAFF experience.
Memoirs of a Superfan (volumes 3-14 online at CAAMedia.org, volumes 1-2 were actually printed in a physical SFIAAFF newspaper!!)
Some of my favorites: (and please keep in mind these were written rather spontaneously the morning after watching a bunch of films – so please be generous with your reads 
I need some Superfans myself :))
MEMOIRS OF A SUPERFAN VOLUME 14.9: FAMILY AS METAPHOR, FAMILY AS REALITY
MEMOIRS OF A SUPERFAN VOLUME 14.10: THE HEALING JOURNEYS OF THE FEMININE
MEMOIRS OF A SUPERFAN VOLUME 13.7: I DIDN’T LAND IN AMERICA. AMERICA LANDED ON ME.
MEMOIRS OF A SUPERFAN, VOLUME 13.6 – ASIAN AMERICAN HAN
MEMOIRS OF A SUPERFAN, VOLUME 13.5: NORMAN MINETA, INTEGRITY AND THE AMERICAN PSYCHE
]]>I’ve been an expert blogger at Psychology Today since 2011, writing about psychiatry, spirituality and culture – basically whatever strikes my fancy!
The Pacific Heart on Psychology Today
[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″]For 14 years, I was the Center for Asian American Media’s “Superfan”, writing primarily about the annual CAAMFest or Asian American International Film Festival in San Francisco. In 2020, I moved the Memoirs of a Superfan to Eastwind ezine, expanding my focus beyond its previous primary focus on CAAMFest.
Memoirs of a Superfan, 2020 forward, at East Wind ezine
Memoirs of a Superfan at the Center for Asian American Media (through Volume 14)
Current events and writing blog
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