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Chief Editor
Jenny Dorsey: Mixing Cuisine and Media to Bust Stereotypes
An interview with Jenny Dorsey, the creator of Asian in America: a six course dining experience and exhibition that discusses Asian American identity through food and drink, virtual reality, and poetry, and founder of...
Guest Writer
Stop feeling sorry for perpetrators when we should protect the victims
The Merriam-Webster Dictionary has chosen “justice” as the word of the year 2018, saying it was the website’s top lookup of the year. In light of this news we should reflect on how justice has materialized for women in...
December News Roundup: Good News from Times and Bad News from WEF
1. Maria Ressa named Time magazine’s Person of the Year Filipino journalist Maria Ressa is one of the journalists, including the murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who were named as Person of the Year by...
April Editors
April Ladies Talk: About Asian Beauty Trends
Are you beautiful? Kudos to you if you say ‘Yes!’ If you mumbled something inaudible, it’s ok, we all sometimes just need a comforting chat with some hot cocoa. Most of us, wherever we are, fall somewhere in the middle...
Mercy Mistress: life through a queer and kinky lens
Mercy Mistress, coming out in early 2019, is one of the most highly anticipated web series for the Asian Femme. Based on the memoirs of a queer Chinese-American dominatrix in New York City, this dramatic dark comedy is...
Marj Ostani
How to face your dad, the flawed human behind the ‘father figure’
For a while it has been hard for me to say the “Our Father” prayer. A confirmed Catholic enamored of female saints and mystics, especially St. Joan of Arc, I used to say the prayer because it seemed to say it all. But...
Portia Chan
Don’t Blame Millennials For Your F**k Up
Born in 1985, I feel awkwardly surprised whenever I’m reminded that I’m a millennial. Aren’t millennials the YOLO-ing, obsessively connected, book hating youngsters who only care about avocado toast and plastic straws...
Youjin Lee
November News Roundup: Dolce & Gabbana Fall Flat and Google Faces Walkout
1. Women’s rights activists jailed and physically abused in Saudi Arabia Several women’s rights activists have been imprisoned in Saudi Arabia since May this year, and subjected to psychological and physical torture...
Helen Yeung
April Ladies Talk: About Crazy Rich Asians
April Magazine is full of good articles. But sometimes we are tired of reading…anything. We just want to listen to a podcast, a.k.a. the radio of millennials, while we commute, cook, bath, or just chillax. ...
‘The Apology’—stories of strength and hope after WW2 sexual slavery
In this age of women’s activism, it’s impossible to go a day without seeing articles, videos, tweets, shows, and memes about feminist movements. Enter The Apology, a film by Tiffany Hsiung that explores the lives of...
Bangkok Has Me Now: performance raising funds for Thai women’s shelter
Kavi’s father used to say, “Can’t I beat my daughter?” Unfortunately, says Kavi, her brother picked up this attitude as well. Kavi’s parents’ first methods of discipline were beating, punching, and strangling. She...
Tara Abhasakun