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Reflections on AAPI Heritage Month
Featured Image: PBS SoCal May is a pleasant time of year. It’s when we trade in our textbooks and pages of Statistics notes for picnics outside in the mild weather. For many Asians and Pacific Islanders across the U.S, May is special for another reason. May is designated as Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Read more
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The Problem with “Yellow Fever” and the Sexual Fetishism of Asian American Women in Film
Featured Artwork: LA Johnson Throughout cinematographic history, the young Asian American woman has been misrepresented. Asian Americans were nearly nonexistent in classic Hollywood; the industry often ignoring Asian issues, characters, and actors. However, as films began to include Asians, not only were actors sought after to play people from an Asian country (not as Asian Americans), but Read more
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COVID-19: The Story of Women Refugees in Uganda
Featured Images: Matilde Simas COVID-19 has altered our lives forever. Many of us have not seen our loved ones and we aren’t able to go to our favourite places or eat our favourite take out. What we know as normal has been stripped from us. Now imagine this: there is no virus, but you live Read more
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Taking Back the Spotlight: Modest Muslim Fashion
Featured Image: CULTURE Hijab Co. The perception of Muslim women in the mainstream has been, for the lack of a better term, depressing. For Muslim women who wear the hijab, the situation becomes even more dismal. Those who actively put themselves out into the world as identifiable Muslims face criticism about how they wear the Read more
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Am I Too Brown, or Not Brown Enough: Why We Have to Drop the Whitewashing Rhetoric
Featured Artwork: Manjit Thapp “So, you’ve really never watched any of the classic Bollywood movies?” asked a brown girl I had just met at a friend’s party. “Not even Kuch Kuch Hota Hai? Or Kal Ho Naa Ho?!” With a sheepish grin, I shook my head at each one. “Uh no, I’ve really only seen Read more
