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We are thrilled to see the stories of the remarkable Asian women of our time. We share inspiring interviews and personal profiles, one at a time. Because we are this Asian woman, here, today. Now.
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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
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
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...
Amuro Namie: The Eternal Queen of J-Pop
I first visited Tokyo in 1997 and stayed at the home of a Japanese family. There was a girl a couple of years older than me, but we didn’t talk much during my week there. We were in that teenage stage of awkward self...
Youjin Lee
Asia Jackson: #MagandangMorenx upends colorism and celebrates Filipino-American History Month through
“I’m just now seeing conversations about colorism within Asian communities. Colorism is still so prevalent because no one used to want to talk about it. Colorism is like that dark family secret that you only learn about...
Khulan Davaadorj: making a Mongolian social venture with natural skincare
Khulan Davaadorj: the Mongolian social entrepreneur making a positive global impact with the natural skincare brand she created with love Mongolia is a beautiful East Asian country we rarely hear about. Apart from its...