Hieu Minh Nguyen explores love and closure as a queer Vietnamese American in his stunning poetry collection.
There’s a stark contrast between the green mountainsides, the red and yellow flag, and the white fog that hides the distance from our eyes. I’m in Hà Giang, a city in northern Vietnam, sipping a salted coffee after our hour-long motorcycle ride to the viewpoint. It’s only the…
“Where the Sky Meets the Sea” interprets the unique experience of growing up mixed heritage. I am half-Chinese, half-Korean, and though imaginative, I hope many others like myself are able to resonate with this piece — from the envy of belonging to a single culture, to the acceptance, the pride, and the beauty of acknowledging both.
How are you doing today, Marigold? my therapist asks me. She looks comfortable, sprawled against her spinning leather armchair the way a man would sit. Maybe she seats herself like a man because she knows she has the upper hand against me, every appointment an unconscious match-up: her…
Becoming the most-watched original title in Netflix history, as well as taking the internet by storm with its extremely catchy tunes, “K-Pop Demon Hunters” (KDH) jumpstarted this summer for so many around the world. With its use of Korean voice actors and faithful reproduction of trendy K-pop music,…
A student-led campaign and organization at UCLA is working to bring back Cantonese language classes decades after the university discontinued them. The organization Save Cantonese at UCLA, was founded by second-year student Noah Hrung, who wanted to preserve and promote the language and culture on campus. The campaign…