We may still have a long way to go, but the fight for representation is worth the struggle. The next generation of Asian Americans deserves to see themselves onscreen and their dreams as possibilities. Netflix’s Always Be My Maybe is set to premiere on May 31st — a fitting end to Asian Pacific American Heritage […]
My friend keeps trying to deflect the conversation. The bartender ignores the obvious hints. He calls me a yellow girl. I know that arguing with entitled white men on Facebook never ends well, but I don’t know if I’ve ever been angrier in my life. He’s mansplaining multiple women of color by defending the right […]
If you tie your treatment as a minority to your ability to excel and defy stereotypes, each time you experience discrimination, it becomes your failure to shoulder. When my mother was in labor with me, she went to the emergency room, as one does. By coincidence, it was also the day of my sister’s birthday—we […]
I love those parts that seem incompatible but that, in a person, come together. During my first week of college, I met a guy who, like me, had a long, four-part name. When I told him mine, he said, “Mine are better because they all match.” This guy wasn’t exactly representative of my classmates at […]
