Being Asian-American In 2019: News, Pop-Culture, Essays

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HBO Is Making A Dark Comedy With All Asian Leads — & It’s About Time

Alexis Reliford

Asian-American, Immigrant & Republican, Too

Chloe Kim On Post-Olympics Life, Self-Care, & Being An Asian-American Icon

Kimberly Truong

Claudia Li's First Runway Show Featured Only Asian Models

by Alyssa Coscarelli

Chrissy Teigen Says Crazy Rich Asians Is Unlike Any Othe...

Countless articles and social media posts have circulated the internet since Crazy Rich Asians debuted in theaters on August 15. The production has been pr

by Madison Medeiros

Crazy Ripped Asians

There’s one romantic comedy trope I’m really glad Crazy Rich Asians gave us: Your man is so hot, you have to have sex with him even if you’re running

The Crazy Rich Asians Sequel Is Being Made & It's Time T...

There is likely more in store for fans of Crazy Rich Asians, myself included. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Warner Bros. is moving forward with deve

by Sesali Bowen

Nail Salon Brawls & Boycotts: Unpacking The Black-Asian Conflict ...

There is a long history of Black-Asian conflict in America, and tensions were especially high in the early 1990s in New York and Los Angeles.

by Tiffany Diane Tso

10 Ways The Crazy Rich Asians Movie Is Differen...

by Elena Nicolaou

Fact-Checking The Wealth Of Crazy Rich Asians

by Elena Nicolaou

Is Nick Young From Crazy Rich Asians A Bad Boyfriend? An...

Warning: This post contains spoilers for Crazy Rich Asians. The first time we meet Nick Young (Henry Golding) in Crazy Rich Asians, he's staring adori

For Crazy Rich Asians Star Awkwafina, Fame Is Just "A Un...

On the day I speak to Awkwafina, she’s on the cusp of a movie star moment. We are approximately T-minus five hours and forty minutes until the Crazy Rich

Crazy Rich Asians

The Problem With Crazy Rich Asians Is That It’s Not Actually Abou...

Nearly every single Asian-American I've met has experienced the Lunch Box Moment. For me, it was when my black bean dessert paste nearly caused a riot

The Viral Earrings Calling Out Men Who Fetishize Asian Women

With firecracker earrings, monolid-accentuating eyepieces, and silver grillz, Ada Chen, an artist, jewelry maker, and Pratt Institute graduate, used her th

by Georgia Murray

Unfair & Ugly: An American Family Sitcom About South Asi...

In our new series #NotYourTokenAsian, R29's Asian & Pacific Islander staffers take on the pop products, stereotypes, and culture wars that surrou

by Teresa Mathew

Banana Magazine & The Next Generation Of "Baesians"

In our new series #NotYourTokenAsian, R29's Asian & Pacific Islander staffers take on the pop products, stereotypes, and culture wars that surrou

by Lindsay Arakawa

How Japanese Women At Internment Camp Made Their Clothes Their Own

In our new series #NotYourTokenAsian, R29's Asian & Pacific Islander staffers take on the pop products, stereotypes, and culture wars that surrou

by Meiko Takechi Arq...

I've Written About Cultural Appropriation For 10 Years. Here's Wh...

In attempting to make us more open to each other's communities, somehow, the opposite has happened.

Let's Be Real: Asian And Black Artists Aren't "Celebrating" Each ...

In our new series #NotYourTokenAsian, R29's Asian & Pacific Islander staffers take on the pop products, stereotypes, and culture wars that surrou

by Andrew R. Chow

Stop Telling Me What Asian Girls Should Look Like

In our new series #NotYourTokenAsian, R29's Asian & Pacific Islander staffers take on the pop products, stereotypes, and culture wars that surrou

by Mi-Anne Chan

We're Fine: What's Stopping Asian-American Millennials From Talki...

In our new series #NotYourTokenAsian, R29's Asian & Pacific Islander staffers take on the pop products, stereotypes, and culture wars that surrou

by Kimberly Truong

Why We Hate (& Love) The Tiger Mom

In our new series #NotYourTokenAsian, R29's Asian & Pacific Islander staffers take on the pop products, stereotypes, and culture wars that surrou

Racists Accept Mythical Sea Creatures, But Not An Asian-American ...

It’s not the first time a fictitious story filled with fantastical, mythical creatures suffered a lack of imagination when it came to casting diverse cha

by Marquita Harris

Asian-American Doctor Explains How She Deals With White Nationali...

"We've got a lot of white nationalists in Oregon. So a few times a year, a patient in the ER refuses treatment from me because of my race," she wrote.

by Lauren Holter

Why It Took Me 25 Years To Come To Terms With Being Asian American

To some people — most people, perhaps — we may all look the same, speak the same language, eat the same things, and come from the same place. But let?

by Lindsay Arakawa

Those “Asian” Silk Bomber Jackets Have A Really Inter...

If you’ve gone shopping recently, you might have noticed that silk bomber jackets have taken the market by storm. You might have also noticed that, m

by Bianca Nieves

How It Feels To Be Fetishized As An Asian Sex Worker

Amy Schumer has a running joke about Asian women: “It doesn't matter what you do, ladies, every guy is going to leave you for an Asian woman,”

I Got Teased At School For My Family’s Food—And Now It̵...

I grew up as a first-generation immigrant to traditional Chinese parents. Food was something that I was actively embarrassed about growing up and sought to

I’m One Of The 1,500 Asian Women Who “Rejected”...

On Monday evening, June 22, police found the body of Tyrelle Shaw, believed to be the man behind a recent string of attacks on Asian women in New York. Sha