Asian American feminism, politics, and pop culture
Asian American feminism, politics, and pop culture
In the latest round of Hollywood whitewashing of Asian or Asian American characters, British actor Ed Skrein (The Transporter Refueled, Deadpool) has…
This weekend, Hollywood’s live-action remake of the classic Ghost in the Shell anime opened in theatres nationwide. The film has been the…
By Guest Contributor: Melissa Phruksachart (@mphruksachart) Though Jordan Peele’s Get Out has been primarily read (and marketed) as an excoriation of white…
By Guest Contributors: Lakshmi Gandhi (@lakshmigandhi) and Asha Sundararaman (@mixedtck) As soon as we saw this Autostraddle’s article about Roopa Rao’s…
Guest Contributor: Mark Tseng Putterman (@tsengputterman) Asian American Twitter has been abuzz this week with news that Tilda Swinton singled…
By Guest Contributor: Lakshmi Gandhi (@LakshmiGandhi) After seeing Hollywood green-light projects that actively erase Asian Americans from the silver screen (think…
Are you an emerging AAPI filmmaker? If so, then this post is for you! HBO announced today Asian Pacific American…
I can’t even right now. The basic concept of the upcoming The Great Wall seems like a Hollywood studio wet dream: the…
By Guest Contributor: Christopher M. Lapinig Are you all about the #StarringJohnCho posters, the Photoshop phenomenon that reimagines posters for recent…
By Guest Contributor: Lakshmi Gandhi (@LakshmiGandhi) I was slightly jet lagged on my commute home Monday night. So, at first,…
This week, the Twittersphere became embroiled in discourse (through #whitewashedOUT) over mainstream Hollywood’s Whitewashing of several traditionally Asian and Asian American characters…
I know I’m about a week late on this news, but I’ve got something really important to say: ScarJo, you…