Strong women have become a brand. It’s emblazoned on t-shirts, pens, keychains, and wine glasses. Millenial women put it in their hashtags on Instagram. But what makes a woman strong? A blend of misogyny and the lack of a proper sex education uphold the stereotype of women being physically weak.

There is hardly a single country left untouched by the #MeToo movement over the last year, and South Korea is certainly no exception.

Asian women face many difficulties in academic settings. You might think that for me personally, going to a predominantly Asian academic settings in the U.K. would be the perfect place to escape racial stereotyping.

In this paper, Aishah Khan explores the history and culture behind skin whitening.

Skin-whitening is an age-old phenomenon which has been adopted by white women as well as women of colour as early as 1600 in Japan (Ashikari, 89, 2005) and 1889 in the United States (Mire, par.2, 2005). It is a practise which incites controversy, not only because it is questionable that women across ethnicities wish to appear white and consume these products, but there are also serious health risks that arise due to the use of skin-whitening products…

Asians are not white. African-Americans know this. Hispanic-Americans know this. White people certainly know this. Asians haven’t figured it out yet. We think of ourselves as, essentially, white.

Asians are not white. African-Americans know this. Hispanic-Americans know this. White people certainly know this. Asians haven’t figured it out yet.

We think of ourselves as, essentially, white.