Whenever I go to the movies with my mum, she always insists on showing up early, because, for some reason, she enjoys paying to sit through the ads and trailers. Armed with a large Thai milk tea with pearls in one hand...
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...
Chinese-Canadian-American artist Domee Shi is warm and polite, just like her forthcoming short film Bao, with its characters of a loving mom and an adorable dumpling. All headlines proclaimed Shi as the first Asian...
…The memory of all that. No, no, they can’t take that away from me… —George and Ira Gershwin, “They Can’t Take That Away from Me,” (1937) In Hollywood leading male and leading female roles were historically written...
April Magazine presents a new bi-weekly series that highlights the badass Asian women of history. If you have a heroine in mind, tell us in the comments. You don’t need the Game of Thrones to see how cool a...
(Originally published on Everyday Feminism on December 21, 2016) With its second December release in two years, Disney is training nerds to associate the winter holidays with Star Wars. I know because I’m one of them...
The Good Earth, a 1937 American film about Chinese farmers in a rural Chinese village, cast only white Caucasian actors playing the main Chinese characters. Luise Rainer, a snow-white German and American actress, played...
At the 2015 Oscars, Neil Patrick Harris said, “Tonight we honor Hollywood’s best and whitest.” It’s not news that Hollywood has treated whiteness as the norm and whitewashed even non-white roles. Last year, paper-white...