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CULTURE

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CULTURE, EMPOWERMENT
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…
NABIHA MASOOD
CULTURE
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…
HANNAH WYMAN
CULTURE, EMPOWERMENT
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,…
NABIHA MASOOD
CULTURE
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…
ANGELICA SILVA
CULTURE, THE ARTS
Thoughts From Asian Artists in Europe During COVID-19
As stilted as this may sound, this Lunar New Year was marked by the COVID-19 outbreak for my family. My mother took…
IRENE SCHRADER
CULTURE, LIFE
Do You Feel As Good As You Look?
Featured Artwork: Rocco Baviera A Short Story About Fashion and Homelessness It was a few days before my 25th birthday and I…
AMIR M. W.
CULTURE, LIFE
A Heartbreaking Experience
Featured Image: Markus Spiske It was just another typical autumn day in Arkansas. Autumn is arguably the most beautiful season in “The…
PAUL MARSH
CULTURE, POLITICS
Why The South-Asian Diaspora Should Oppose Modi’s India
Featured Artwork: Zainab Being proud of your culture and far-right religious nationalism is not the same thing and they will never be.…
AYMEN SHERWANI
CULTURE
For the Culture, By the Culture: How YouTube Channel ‘Pero Like’ Gives a Voice to Latinx and Hispanic Communities
In 2016, YouTube Channel and Facebook page Pero Like, on behalf of mother-company Buzzfeed, was founded as a digital platform specifically catering…
GINA ATANASOFF
CULTURE
Saadat Hasan Manto: The Writer Who Is Not To Be Read
Having been born into a family of intellectuals and book lovers, I was astounded when a book was taken away from me…
GLORY SINGH
POETRY & PROSE, THE ARTS
Sindh: Land of the Lost
How many mothers, how many children? How many girls, how many bodies? How many years of Barbarity Hunger Undue Thirst Tragedy Obliteration?…
ALIZAH HASHMI
CULTURE
Fitting In vs. Standing Out: Being Black in Predominantly White Schools
Featured Artwork: Aishwarya Srivastava A few months ago, I had a problem. Not specifically my problem, of course, but I had heard…
NA'ILAH WILLIAMS

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