This article is a sequel to the post “To The Non-Conforming Asian Women.” The pressure to conform to a particular way of being, looking and behaving is paramount in conformist cultures. In ...

I didn’t know that much about UC Berkeley before committing here. My sister had lived in Oakland for four years, and despite numerous visits to the Bay and an aggressive obsession with prestigious ...

Not all Asian women want to be a lawyer, a doctor, or an account. Not all Asian women want to bleach their skin white or to stay stick-thin. Not all Asian women want to be married by 30. Not all Asian ...

Singaporean filmmaker Tan Siyou hasn’t spent much time at home since her debut feature Amoeba premiered in the Discovery section of Toronto International Film Festival. Since then, the film screened ...

Why do some societies experience regular revolutions which transform their political and economic systems, while others remain relatively stable? Dr Michael Muthukrishna’s research shows how the ...

Like other dystopian novels before it, Scott Westerfeld's Uglies features a society in which books are banned. Although Netflix's movie adaptation makes changes to the Uglies book, it does retain this ...