Michelle Li is a NYC-based costume designer for the screen and stage. You can see her latest work in the film Chaperone recently premiered at the Sundance Film festival and her website here. We sat down to talk to her about her personal and professional journey.
Edited by Katie Constantine While scrolling through Netflix in a post-Thanksgiving daze, I was pleasantly surprised to see the cover of Love Hard, featuring an AAPI lead. The 2021 film is a holiday romantic comedy starring Nina Dobrev and Jimmy O Yang. A dating columnist Natalie (played by Dobrev) is based in LA, but matches […]Read Post ›
Museums and other cultural institutions have been required to adapt to social-distancing COVID protocols in the last year. However, they still remain a very important place of learning, digitally or in person. In the wake of the ongoing #BlackLivesMatter and #StopAAPIHate movements of the last year, we want to highlight a few museums dedicated to […]Read Post ›
Trigger Warning: this post discusses a recent mass shooting event, racism, and misogyny.
When we first started writing, we did so with the mindset that we should use the skills we honed in our humanities classes in undergrad to help the world see why we love(d) the quirky academic topics that we do. For me at least, this is no longer the case.
Written and edited by Katie Constantine & Tiffany Chan All images property of Netflix On the last day of AAPI Heritage month this year, Netflix released Always Be My Maybe, co-written and starring Ali Wong, directed by Nahnatchka Khan. The film tells the story of former childhood sweethearts, taking inspiration from the iconic 1990s Nora […]Read Post ›
Domee Shi and Becky Neiman-Cobb are the Director and Producer pair behind Pixar’s latest animated short film, Bao. Both Domee and Becky have been at Pixar for several years, but this is the first time they are stepping into their respective roles for this particular project. Becky is a photographer and has worked on several […]Read Post ›
Kimberly M. Wang is a veteran television Director and Producer who has since pivoted into brand-storytelling photography. Based in New York City, Kimberly creates photo-based feature stories for magazines and other publications. These stories often feature prominent creatives and artists at the top of their fields. She also creates portraiture and video content for entrepreneurs […]Read Post ›
The Female Gaze 