When we talk about nature today, it’s often loaded with visions of some bygone, unspoiled era where plants and animals lived in interwoven harmony. What follows is the palpitating guilt of human nature and how humanity has extracted so much from the natural world that we are now hurtling towards cataclysm. To an extent, both […]
Appropriately, the slate of films at SXSW 2022 featured many intimate stories about music. Among them was Alice Gu’s sonically soothing documentary Really Good Rejects. Really Good Rejects focuses on Reuben Cox, a luthier (guitar maker) who is the mutual link between artists such as Phoebe Bridgers, Andrew Bird, Hand Habits, and The National — […]
To this day, there has been a significant push to have Asian American representation and symbols to make sense of our inclusion. Part of that representation means we need a comprehensive scope of life for Asian Americans–the good and the bad. It becomes easy to equate individuals with the metaphor of inclusion, but how do […]
San Francisco-based filmmaker Debbie Lum has been making independent films for a while now. Way back in 2012, her first film Seeking Asian Female debuted at SXSW, which gave us a case study of Asian fetishization in action. The film, which followed an older white male and his young Chinese bride, was ardently received by […]
When I got into UC San Diego in 2018, there was a really popular video called “UC SCHOOL STEREOTYPES EXPLAINED” by the Fung Bros. I felt a weird combination of relief and resignation when UC San Diego ranked third, but I already expected that UCLA and UC Berkeley were ahead in this admittedly arbitrary listicle. […]