“Women’s anger is a powerful energy,” feminist theologian, Ms. Chung Hyun Kyung proclaims. The women-led protest is unquestionably a prevalent issue in South Korea today. It all began in this January when a South Korean...
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Jihyun Kim
Vegan Filipinas Share Their Food Stories
Apart from picturesque beaches and mouthwatering food served on banana leaves, the Philippines has a variety of subcultures, lifestyle choices, and innovative career opportunities. Our generation has done its part in...
PB Hermoso
Jonah Sison: Skin Potions CEO grows business in the Philippine beauty scene
Jonalyn Sison started as a certified medical nurse. She began making her homemade organic soaps with her family and friends, when she realized that it could be a great business idea. There she went, this Filipina...
Andrea Centeno
Women artists in Singapore: working in and out of the box
Seven Singaporean women from various creative fields tell us what it is like to practice their art in a society that emphasizes efficiency and conformity. While Singapore is better known for its glitzy buildings and...
Melanie Lee
Founder of ‘Woman, Create’ shares how she started Feminist Book Club
It all began when one woman suffering a chronic disease founded ‘Woman, Create’ (“WC”), an arts-driven platform that empowers and engages Filipina women through art, creative living, and discussing women...
Marj Ostani
Betty Ouyang directs Hollywood film for Asian actress—herself
When Greta Gerwig was nominated for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay at the Academy Awards last year, her alma mater Barnard College at Columbia University, a private women’s liberal arts college in New...
Youjin Lee
Cara Barredo and Maronne Cruz: Two Dazzling Actresses of the Filipino Theater Scene
Philippine theater has long been producing stage greats. From homegrown talents that did rounds on Broadway, like Lea Salonga on Miss Saigon, Aladdin, Les Miserables and other musicals, to Karla Garcia on the ensemble...
Xiaohoa Michelle Ching: Literator founder builds better path to literacy
Xiaohoa Michelle Ching is the daughter of Laotian refugees. Throughout her life, she’s seen firsthand how socioeconomic factors affect the quality of education. To help solve this problem, Ching founded Literator...
Shayne Nuesca
Dr. Gia Sison: Filipino mental health advocate and cancer survivor gives back using Twitter
Thanks to Twittersphere, the dialogue on mental health is getting out of the offices of teachers, lawyers, and doctors and spreading over virtual streets. Now the professionals turn to the internet to raise the...
How a Vietnamese chef keeps her love of home food alive in a Malaysian kitchen
I stumbled upon Mai Lap Lanh’s Instagram page some time ago and her food postings caught my foodie-eyes. I have always wanted to try authentic Vietnamese cooking, so a few months later I found myself in Mai’s kitchen...
Ayuni Ayatillah
Sunday Nudes, the Philippines Sketching Community Celebrates Body-Positive Art
‘Nudity is more than just vanity. It’s about diving in one’s story and vulnerability’ One early broiling Sunday morning I met with Dear Prudence of Sunday Nudes, a body-positive nude sketching community, at Conspiracy...
Deborah Krisher-Steele, deputy publisher of Cambodia Daily, strives to reignite her father’s legacy
Deborah Krisher-Steele, deputy publisher of The Cambodia Daily had to close the news bureau last September in Phnom Penh amid the Cambodian government’s crackdown on free press. The shutdown came after 25 years...
Yewon Kang