Each issue we feature art created by Asian women, nonbinary individuals, and other gender minorities around the world. Here are this issue’s pieces!

Each issue we feature pieces of prose and poetry from Asian women, nonbinary, and gender minority writers around the world. Here are this issue’s pieces!

To preface, this movie won’t fix Marvel’s long history of racism, white-washing, and lack of representation in their comics, company, and films by a long shot. Older comics are ripe with yellowface and orientalism, and recent comics aren’t totally exempt from this either.

        An Oscar nomination or an actual trophy signifies an implied acceptance of Asian actress as “one of their own”. However, Asian women in films have been subjected to subservient characters lacking autonomy, reinforcing the conceptualization of Asian women being submissive housewives or undignified and thankless servants. More to that, Asian women on screen have been exoticized or sexualized as objects of desire designed to serve the male gaze, or as the backdrop and contributor to the bigger male-oriented story.