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Eileen Chang: Literary Genius in the Gap Between Memory and Reality
Eileen herself has been quoted as saying that “Between memory and reality there are awkward discrepancies.” This might well apply to the reality of her own life as a Shanghainese woman who wrote feminist works about...
Guest Writer
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...
Jameela Jamil’s fight against shame in any form
It feels like we’ve reached peak social media. And somewhere while scrolling the #feminist hashtag was when I first saw TV presenter, actress and model Jameela Jamil. It was a viral video of her interview in a podcast...
Marj Ostani
April Magazine’s Lovely Workshop in Hong Kong
April Magazine Team in Hong Kong About a decade ago, working in a cosmopolitan media setup would mean landing a 9 to 5 job at an established publication that would send you to travel the world and meet corporate people...
Andrea Centeno
Haya Zarrin: The Pakistani Beauty Creative Making MYTHical Lipsticks
Jewelry and beauty go along, at least on the ground floors of posh department stores. It’s hard, however, to imagine the genuine similarity of both other than our adoration. Lipsticks are soft and warm, gemstones...
Mukhtar Mai: A steely warrior born out of the ashes of gang rape in Pakistan
Mukhtaran Bibi, who is now widely known as Mukhtar Mai, is a Pakistani woman from a small rural village called Meerwala. On 22nd June 2002, Mukhtar Mai was gang-raped by four men of the local tribe of Mastoi. During the...
Filipino mothers share their kitchen secrets
The smell of kare-kare coming from the kitchen. The warm champorado kisses you get before you are dropped off at school. The adobo-filled embraces that welcome you home. All of these precious moments happened because of...
PB Hermoso
At the Singapore Writers Festival: time for women to understand other women?
At the recent Singapore Writers Festival (November 2-11, 2018), a panel of three female writers from different parts of the world discussed a woman’s position in society. It ended up a disorienting presentation of...
Melanie Lee
Open letter to my dearest, newly wed ‘little’ sister
Our own beauty expert and lifestyle writer Andrea wrote a heartfelt letter to her sister Jamie Centeno who recently married her boyfriend of 5 years. The ceremony was a traditional Christian wedding with only families...
Tsuruko Hanzawa: the Japanese tea ceremony master living like a single flower
It all started with an NHK documentary titled “Tsuruko’s Tea Journey,” a 50-minute program I watched on YouTube one weary evening when I just wanted something frivolous. The documentary followed Tsuruko Hanzawa, a chaji...
Komako Kimura: the Japanese suffragist on the streets of New York
The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich wrote that “well-behaved women seldom make history.” About sixty years before Ulrich penned her words, on October 23, 1915, women marched en masse in New York...
Portia Chan