Interview: Debbie Lum on ‘Try Harder!’ and the brutal college admissions process
January 31, 2021
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 […]
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Success is hard to define in ‘Try Harder!’
January 30, 2021
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. […]
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