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  • Asian Women Living,  Home,  The Environmental Issue

    Breaking the stereotype: being a plus size cheerleader

    September 20, 2019

    By: Vanessa Sison I was a competitive cheerleader for 13 years. Before I go into anything else, a competitive cheerleader is a person (male or female) who joins a team to compete against other cheerleading teams. They perform in cheerleading competitions and divide teams into categories by age group, sex and level. A cheerleader can start from as early as 3 years old and upwards, have all girl teams or co-ed teams (mixed male and female participants) and have a set of rules to govern safely and how difficult a routine can be. They (usually) perform on a sprung floor and to win first place,  get scored by sections based…

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  • Asian Women Living,  Home,  The Environmental Issue

    Why I Unfollowed My Favorite Instagram Influencers

    September 20, 2019

    By: Toslima Khatun **In this article I focus on the South Asian community because it is the one that I belong to, and the one that has affected my decisions. I fully recognise that the issues I write about are more universal but at this moment I do not feel informed enough to speak on behalf or even about anything beyond the immediate sphere I inhabit. Having said due to the content of this particular piece I am going to proceed to unblock everyone given that I feel that it is only fair.** I wrote an article a little while ago about how the #metoo article was instrumental in making…

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  • Asian Women Living,  Home,  The Environmental Issue

    The Dark Side of the Climate

    September 20, 2019

    By: Suranthi Fernando Recently the citizens and residents of Singapore, as well as the Strait of Malacca in Malaysia, have been waking up to hazy skies. At first, some may have thought that their eyes were still affected by sleep, or that their glasses had gone foggy, but nope, the skies are no longer as crisp and blue as they were at the start of the year. The lower air quality doesn’t only affect visibility, but also poses the problem of triggering health issues such as asthma, and can even make breathing uncomfortable on days where the smog is particularly heavy. You may be asking why there’s a haze that’s…

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    The Asian-American Identity Crisis

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    ‘When I Hit You’: Breaking Down the Wall of Silence around Abusive Relationships

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    Let’s Talk, Period

    May 12, 2019
  • Asian Women Living,  Home,  The Environmental Issue

    The Face of Asia

    September 20, 2019

    The Face of Asia By: Anishi Patel “Please indicate your ethnicity.” For Asians, the list of possible options generally looks as follows: Asian Asian Indian Pacific Islander   Limiting options, for the world’s most ethnically and culturally diverse continent. As someone whose family hails from India, the box I check is obvious, but this list always makes me wonder: what exactly is the face and identity one associates with the “Asian” box? I’m Asian. People from the Philippines, Nepal, and Pakistan, just to name a few, are also Asian. But the face I, much of western society, and most ethnicity-based forms such as the one above generally associate with “Asian”…

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    Meet Peggy Cherng, One of America’s Richest Self-Made Women

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    August 30, 2019

    A Mahjong Piece in Chess

    April 26, 2019
  • Asian Women Living,  Home,  The Expectations Issue

    Yellow

    August 30, 2019

    By: Enya Chi During the summer of 2019, I went to a 3-weeks summer camp at Stanford University. It is there that I realized how fortunate I was to be living in America and getting an elite American education. The story unfolds like this: During camp, I met many people from Chinese public high schools where I was exposed to the backwardness and restrictions of the Chinese educational system. One of my friends is from Chengdu, Sichuan, China, a relatively poor province in mainland China. As she described the Chinese public schools in which students are brainwashed every day by Chinese communist/Marxist ideals, and how their curriculum forces a very…

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    What Billie and Emma Does Not Say

    June 1, 2019

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    September 20, 2019

    Then to Now: Asian Whitewashing in Film

    April 15, 2019
  • Asian Women Living,  Home,  The Expectations Issue

    Self Portrait

    August 30, 2019

    By: Erika Wang Kept in a cardboard box in the attic, filled to the brim with colorful drawings and old report cards, is all of the work from the beginning of my school career. It’s contents are frequently emptied to indulge in nostalgia or revisit old memories. However, there is one piece that is never touched, dust still collecting on the ripped edges of the paper, on the outline of its face. A face I still find difficult to look at. It happened in the early years of my childhood when my teacher—a young woman in her 20’s— assigned all of us young and curious students a project we were…

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    Let’s Talk, Period

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    On Bay Area Academic Culture

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    Augumented Reality: Boon or Curse?

    August 15, 2019
  • Asian Women Living,  Home,  The Expectations Issue

    The Good Wife

    August 30, 2019

    By: Ammaarah Zayna The Good Wife   The good Asian wife is born to be subservient. A mother by nature, she lives her life vicariously through her children, who are academically gifted and charismatic of course. She is pretty – either naturally or by force. Calm and collected; she does not talk back because she knows her place. She maintains the family name at all costs because there is nothing worse in life than gossip. There is always food on the table. The house is always clean. She has one husband whom she loves wholeheartedly. She is happy even when she is unhappy.  The word divorce is not known to…

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    How K-pop Beauty Standards Impacted Me

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    June 13, 2019
  • Asian Women Living,  Home,  The Expectations Issue

    An In-Depth Look at the Overall Mental Health of Asian-Americans

    August 30, 2019

    By: Srilekha Cherukuvada When I first began researching for this article, I noticed a couple things about the statistics. In charts with age 18 or older Asian Americans, most Asian Americans felt significantly better than non-Hispanic White Americans. There was a smaller trend in people who reported that they had felt worthless or useless. There was a smaller number of people that reported feeling depressed or received prescription medicines for mental illnesses.   “Reported” does not mean that they were all truthful. That’s the sad truth about mental health research. You never know for sure if the person was being honest. Were they dramatizing their temporary sadness or were they…

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    Cat-Calling: What We Need To Teach Our Kids

    July 31, 2019

    Unveiling The Asian Definitions of Beauty

    July 16, 2019

    Asian Women in Film and TV: Who’s Been Here, Who’s Raising Us Up & What’s To Come

    April 15, 2019
  • Asian Women Living,  Home,  The Expectations Issue

    A Family Man

    August 30, 2019

    By: Srilekha Cherukuvada       When he was 16, my grandfather pedaled his beat-up Hero bicycle six miles every day to deliver lunch to his father and his brother, who worked the rice fields outside a small village in Southeastern India. While his father and brother ate curried rice and lamb and such, my grandfather dreamed of greater things than working the rice fields. He dreamed of being a doctor, of helping and healing.   The dream never came true. There were too many obstacles, too many landmines, too few opportunities for him in a country that had, for at least 4,000 years, worked overtime to oppress him and others like him.…

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    Ripple Effect

    April 26, 2019

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  • Asian Women Living,  Home,  The Expectations Issue

    On Bay Area Academic Culture

    August 30, 2019

    By: Anishi Patel For those who are unfamiliar, California’s Silicon Valley is a premier technological hub, and boasts an essential and thriving immigrant community, of which I am a part. We bring Boba tea (so much that the official Cupertino Snapchat geofilter includes a boba cup cartoon), love our Teslas (the Tesla factory tour is virtually a rite of passage), and, as a consequence of our upbringings, raise academic standards throughout the Bay Area.   I am the daughter of two Indian-American immigrants who travelled to the U.S. for a better college education and became engineers and business owners. It’s not a unique story for a Bay Area family: 23%…

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    Cut It Out: Cosmetic Blepharoplasty in South Korea versus the United States

    June 1, 2019
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