With the popularity of Asian beauty brands on the rise, the responsibility of these brands to be inclusive of all customers is also on the rise. Discourse around the Korean TIRTIR goes to show how important it is for all brands and audiences to understand the needs of a globalized customer base.
The recent pro-Palestine protests occurring on college campuses across the country, including UCLA’s own Palestinian Solidarity Encampment (PSE), have garnered widespread criticism and have been met with extreme police responses. Student protests of the past and present continue to prove that freedom movements will persist so long as systemic issues go unaddressed by those in power. Understanding this history on both a local and national scale can emphasize the importance of questioning dominant narratives and the power of community-building and actions of solidarity.
In the age of social media, sharing one’s romantic relationship with the world is common practice. For Asian American women who are in a relationship with a white man, the reaction has become increasingly hostile. At the forefront of this hostility – reference to a 2010 academic article, known better in online comments as “the Oxford study.”
Jenn Tran is the first Asian American Bachelorette lead in the history of the 22 year long smash ABC romance franchise. Jenn’s love story is exactly what both the show, its audience, and all Asian Americans need.
Recently, there has been an influx of acronyms used to group different demographics of people under one umbrella term. The Asian American community has especially experienced this, ranging from AAPI to APIDA and more. While these terms are created under the pretense of inclusion, there is still work to be done in digging beyond language to understand its meaning and intention.