Yi Yi: Retrospective Truths
​BY ALAN KE

To my knowledge, most kids don’t spend their seventh birthdays 35,000 feet above the Pacific Ocean. If it were up to me, I’d have chosen to celebrate somewhere like Chuck E. Cheese’s, anywhere other than the 13-hour purgatory of EWR to PEK. On a whim, we packed our bags as a family, swapping the comfort of a small suburban town in New Jersey for the monolithic metropolis of Beijing....

The Handmaid's Tale: Perpetuating Racial Ignorance and Exclusive Feminism in America
BY JACINDA LEE

It is apparent that even under the guise of empowering women, exploring sexuality, and mobilizing resistance, the audience is still trapped under the blanket of white supremacy. The post-racial “aesthetic” is used to excuse the novel from confronting this conversation, to justify inaction taken against addressing the intersectionality of these experiences in the context of race...