Traditional love languages disappoint us, but we are immigrants. Again and again, I witnessed the ways we are adept at starting anew, lives from scratch, snippets cobbled together like a lullaby.
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Art takes an incredible amount of time, resources, and emotional and logistical support. To reduce it to talent and discuss success in terms of inevitability means to rob anyone not born into wealth and connections with an opportunity to even start.
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May is Asian Heritage Month and what better way to celebrate in isolation than by enjoying books, shows, and movies by Asian creators?
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She is the first Vietnamese woman I’ve watched fight in a blockbuster movie, yet a critical examination of fans’ reception shows us the limits of accepting diversity in Hollywood.
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It is not enough to lump such diversity under one name and call it a day.
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If Hollywood wants to take a stand against discrimination and inequality, as so many Academy members have expressed, representation is the most basic first step.
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Though my mother took such pride in her exceptional Vietnamese cooking, my embarrassment of her smelly dishes originated in elementary school and stayed with me until fourth-year university.
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At five years old, I sat on my father’s backpack in the middle of the airport, sobbing and discombobulated.
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