The ‘Asian Aunty’ has begun to smash ageist and gender stereotypes

2 weeks, 4 days ago

Younger Asian Americans navigate something new to their generation: Taking up space

LA Times

Karho Leung, 33, one of the founders of 12 Pell, a local barbershop, stands for his portrait on Pell Street in Manhattan’s Chinatown. “I am American, but I’m also South Asian,” she says. Born and raised in Las Vegas to a Filipino father and Mexican mother, the spoken word artist says that “it sounds like a different world” to hear …

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2 weeks, 4 days ago

‘Her Story’: China’s answer to ‘Barbie’ becomes latest smash hit - but some men are not amused

CNN

Hong Kong CNN — A 9-year-old girl pushes back against period shame, telling adults at the dinner table, “more than half the world’s population bleeds.” Two men fight for a woman’s heart by boasting how many books they’ve read by Japanese feminist icon Chizuko Ueno. These scenes from China’s latest box-office hit, “Her Story,” have become the talk of Chinese …

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2 weeks, 4 days ago

‘Her Story’: China’s answer to ‘Barbie’ becomes latest smash hit - but some men are not amused

CNN

Hong Kong CNN — A 9-year-old girl pushes back against period shame, telling adults at the dinner table, “more than half the world’s population bleeds.” Two men fight for a woman’s heart by boasting how many books they’ve read by Japanese feminist icon Chizuko Ueno. These scenes from China’s latest box-office hit, “Her Story,” have become the talk of Chinese …

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3 weeks, 2 days ago

Younger Asian Americans navigate something new to their generation: Taking up space

Associated Press

NEW YORK — The chairs stay occupied at 12 Pell. From New York City, from the metro area, from many states away, they’re coming for what they see on 12 Pell’s lively social media accounts, where the young, predominantly Asian American barbers offer advice to teens and men of all ages and ethnicities with humor, quips, confidence and ease — …

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4 weeks ago

Asia’s frustrated young men celebrate the return of Donald Trump

Al Jazeera

Young men from China to South Korea are celebrating Trump’s re-election as a victory against anti-male sentiment. Taipei, Taiwan; Seoul, South Korea; and Manila, the Philippines – Donald Trump’s popularity among young men who frequent the “manosphere” online has been widely cited as a factor in his re-election as president of the United States. “The country’s laws have become so …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Why Japan's Tokyo is emerging as a sex hub

Firstpost

Tokyo, which is witnessing an influx of foreigners, a rise in poverty and a weaking of the Japanese yen, is emerging as a sex hub. Experts say many young women, left impoverished during the COVID-19 pandemic, are turning to the flesh trade to make ends meet – which is resulting in a troubling spike in violence People walk along a …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Asian American women interestingly rank second in US earnings, Elon Musk reacts

Hindustan Times

Elon Musk has once again stirred discussions on social media with a succinct comment on a post addressing wage disparities in the United States. Sharing The Rabbit Holes’ post on median yearly earnings for full-time workers, Musk commented, “Interesting,” drawing significant attention to a key statistic: Asian American women rank as the second-highest earners in the U.S., surpassing White male …

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1 month, 4 weeks ago

Girl in Indian ethnic attire amazes classmates, professor in Japan | Video goes viral

India TV News

Be it in India or outside, Indian ethnic attire never fails to attract eyeballs. An Instagram post went viral in which a young girl is seen flaunting her beautiful Indian suit in Japan. An Instagram user Gunjan Singh, who has 1,458 followers on the social media platform, posted a video clip with the caption - "I wore a suit in …

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2 months, 4 weeks ago

The Necessity of Central Asia’s Transformative Feminism

The Diplomat

The Central Asian contingent at the Asia Pacific Feminist Forum, held in Chiang Mai, Thailand in mid-September, was small. “We have transformative feminism in Central Asia,” Dunganaeva, a grassroots activist with the ALGA rural women’s association, said, rooted in the “many aspects of our culture, our history, our family and also our Soviet past, when there were big opportunities for …

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2 months, 4 weeks ago

I Was One Of The Only Nonwhite Kids In My School. Here's What I Wish I Could Tell My Younger Self.

Huff Post

The author is pictured in high school, at 15 years old. When I moved to New York to attend Columbia University in the mid-2010s, I couldn’t believe how many other people like me were out there. Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, mixed Chinese Japanese Koreans — for the first time ever, I was even called not Asian enough, which was a bizarre …

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3 months, 1 week ago

Breast cancer rates are rising dramatically among Asian Americans, new study shows

NPR

Breast cancer rates are rising dramatically among Asian Americans, new study shows A study shows that breast cancer rates are rising dramatically among Asian Americans. However, a new report from the American Cancer Society today also finds younger women and, in particular, Asian American women are getting breast cancer at higher rates. For example, that same study found incidents of …

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

‘Korea aur India ke gharon mein kya fark hai’: Korean woman lists 4 major differences

Hindustan Times

A woman from Korea, now living in India, has taken to YouTube to share a side-splitting video that humorously highlights the differences between the households of the two countries. “Korean house vs Indian house,” reads the caption posted along with the video. Sometimes my time pass is to watch them following their prey.” A fourth expressed, “The last was so …

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5 months ago

Women's voices spill out of Hidden Letters

China Daily

Hu forms a close bond with 84-year-old nyushu inheritor, He Yanxin. CHINA DAILY Film distribution platform Elemeet organized themed prerelease screenings to target specific audiences, including women-only screenings and screenings with intangible cultural heritage experiences. At the Beijing premiere, audience members could choose a sticker with nyushu characters, each of them conveying a positive message, such as freedom, independence, contentment …

5 months ago

Women's voices spill out of Hidden Letters

China Daily

Hu forms a close bond with 84-year-old nyushu inheritor, He Yanxin. CHINA DAILY Film distribution platform Elemeet organized themed prerelease screenings to target specific audiences, including women-only screenings and screenings with intangible cultural heritage experiences. At the Beijing premiere, audience members could choose a sticker with nyushu characters, each of them conveying a positive message, such as freedom, independence, contentment …

5 months, 2 weeks ago

Viral video shows Chinese immigrant describing horrifying attack by drug addict in NYC: ‘Why Asian women?’

Hindustan Times

An Asian woman has described a horrifying attack she survived outside a Long Island City restaurant. An Asian woman, Runing Lao, describes horrifying attack by NYC drug addict Lao told New York Post that the attack outside the New York City eatery has left her terrified and she is now afraid to go back to work. “Before Lao even got …

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6 months ago

Women gradually rise in Japanese politics but face deep challenges

Associated Press

TOKYO — Eight years ago, Yuriko Koike became the first woman to lead Tokyo, beating her male predecessor. “There are growing expectations for women to play a greater role in politics,” said parliamentarian Chinami Nishimura, a senior official with the main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan. “In politics or parliament, which are still largely considered men’s work, it is …

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6 months, 3 weeks ago

Redefine societal beauty norms

China Daily

Above: Dai He is a national champion in freediving. She recalled the brand's arrival in China in September 2019, known for its short, tight, and revealing designs available only in the smallest sizes — creating the phenomenon of "BM girls" on social media, making the "BM style" a coveted trend among young Chinese women. Dai He, a 34-year-old jewelry designer …

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6 months, 3 weeks ago

Redefine societal beauty norms

China Daily

Above: Dai He is a national champion in freediving. She recalled the brand's arrival in China in September 2019, known for its short, tight, and revealing designs available only in the smallest sizes — creating the phenomenon of "BM girls" on social media, making the "BM style" a coveted trend among young Chinese women. Dai He, a 34-year-old jewelry designer …

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7 months, 1 week ago

International Day of Action for Women's Health 2024: Stereotypes surrounding menopause and ageing

India TV News

The International Day of Action for Women's Health is observed every year on May 28 to raise awareness about the health issues faced by women globally. This day not only aims to bring attention to the health issues faced by women but also advocates for the empowerment and autonomy of women in making decisions about their health. Lifestyle modifications like …

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7 months, 2 weeks ago

As ‘invisible women’ debate rages at home, Kani & Divya sparkle at Cannes

New Indian Express

KOCHI: While film enthusiasts, filmmakers and netizens were discussing the lack of representation of women in recent blockbuster Malayalam films, two women actors from Kerala were hogging the limelight at the Cannes Film Festival. It is the first Indian film to compete for ‘Palme d’Or’ Award at the Cannes Film Festival after 30 years The absence of women in prominent …

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9 months, 1 week ago

There’s a reason this piece about age-gap relationships went viral

The Independent

The best of Voices delivered to your inbox every week - from controversial columns to expert analysis Sign up for our free weekly Voices newsletter for expert opinion and columns Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Whether it’s a balding politician wheeling …

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10 months ago

The Influenchers: Powerful women shaping India

New Indian Express

Much before all it took to be an influencer was a cellphone, a selfie-stick and an Insta account to post saffron-painted nails or a whoopee dance on a moving train, there was—and is—the real deal. There are service innovators like Mehvish Mushtaq, the first Kashmiri woman to develop an Android application called ‘Dial Kashmir’ that provides addresses, contact numbers, and …

India Women

10 months, 1 week ago

K-drama is far from the real lives of Korean women

Live Mint

I know your eye is on Korea, no need to tell you to look in that direction. 2014 was before Squid Game, before Parasite, before billboards celebrating BTS went up in Indore, before Chennai hosted K-pop dance contests, before south Delhi folks trekked to Ghaziabad movie theatres for special screenings of K-pop concerts, before The Vegetarian, Cursed Bunny and Love …

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10 months, 3 weeks ago

The Great Gender Divide: Globally, young women are becoming more liberal than men, but what about India?

Hindustan Times

Not so long ago, we’d look at generations as a whole. “In countries on every continent, an ideological gap has opened up between young men and women.” American women have become more liberal since the 1990s, finds a new Gallup poll and the shift is more evident among young women and senior women—up by 11 points. The similarities in career …

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1 year ago

Javed Akhtar slams Yash Chopra's Jab Tak Hai Jaan: 'The heroine says she wants to sleep with different men, this is...'

Firstpost

Yash Chopra’s swansong Jab Tak Hai Jaan that came out in 2012 saw Anushka Sharma as a feisty and blabbering war reporter Akira who wishes to sleep with men of different accents before getting married. He said, “When today’s filmmakers try to make an image of an empowered woman, they get ridiculous because they don’t know what is an empowered …

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1 year ago

Reclaiming Culture and Identity as a Central Asian Adoptee

The Diplomat

You are so lucky." For his followers, many of whom are themselves Central Asians or Central Asian adoptees, his content is more than “just Tajik culture,” but reflects a distinct thoughtfulness around understanding identity and discovering one’s own culture – where we each fit into the many cultures that surround us. “I like the word ‘reclaiming’ more and ‘reclaiming the …

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1 year ago

We're Still In The Process Of Creating Asian American Culture — And That’s A Beautiful Thing

Huff Post

Since it opened in 2016, the Chop Suey Club has become a cultural touchstone of the New York City’s Lower East Side — a community space/store/vibe-curator of contemporary Asian-Americana with the ultimate goal of helping Asians revel in their cool-culture. “I want a whole family to come and this be a place where each person could find something.” Once they're …

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1 year, 2 months ago

Book Review: Broad themes meet niche topics in Fadipe’s debut novel ‘The Sun Sets in Singapore’

Associated Press

Dara’s dream of defying the odds and becoming a partner at her firm is just within reach when Lani enters the picture. This handsome Nigerian man is about to irrevocably change her life, and her best friend’s and the newcomer to their book club’s lives, too. Kehinde Fadipe’s debut novel, “The Sun Sets in Singapore,” brings three expat Nigerian women …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Can we stop pointing out how famous women are aging?

Salon

Female celebrities are sick and tired of the public calling out their aging from Charlize Theron, Kristin Davis and Sarah Jessica Parker. It's clearly rooted in our culture's discomfort seeing women we perceive in a certain desirable light naturally just change into someone we don't recognize. It's absurd they've had to defend themselves from the onslaught of criticism because it's …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Column: What ‘Barbie’ teaches us about the beauty of growing old

LA Times

I was 5 ½ when Barbie was born. But speaking of “Barbie’s” message, I was inspired by my visit with actress Mimi Rogers and hearing her thoughts on aging naturally and with grace. And I began researching love among older adults after interviewing a woman who emailed me to say that, at 71, she’s enjoying a robust affair with an …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Filipina women were part of a great Australian migration, but they had to overcome the mail-order bride stereotype

ABC

I can't exactly remember the moment Mum told me she was off chemo. From the late 1970s, the Philippine state had encouraged the idea of "the Filipina beauty", promoting Filipinas in beauty pageants. The dignity of the Filipina woman Ms Marginson arrived in Melbourne in July 1989, and within months, three Filipina women had been killed in her new home …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Are 'Auntie-Free Zones' Ageist — Or Just Plain Necessary?

Huff Post

Now that all the coverage of the performances and style at this year’s Essence Fest has mellowed out, it’s time to talk about the elephant in the room: the concept that the festival facilitators have a “new audience” in mind. On the first night of Essence Fest, young crowds were invited to Girls United’s first-ever festival “kickback” in a separate …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Demographic transition and change in women’s lives

The Hindu

The passage of World Population Day is also a time to look at how India’s demographic journey has changed the lives of its citizens, particularly its women. Good data on this only goes back 30 years, but my research with Sojin Yu, based on the National Family Health Survey, finds that the number of years women spend caring for children …

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1 year, 6 months ago

East Asia’s new family portrait

The Economist

Asia | Modern families East Asia’s new family portrait Households across the region look very different from previous generations. “Should we neglect a whole generation of single women’s demands just because we can’t update this policy?” Ms Xu’s experience is illustrative of broader trends happening throughout East Asia. In March at the inaugural meeting of a new government body focused …

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1 year, 6 months ago

India’s older women face the brunt of exclusion: HelpAge India survey

The Hindu

India’s older women are facing the brunt of exclusion and are increasingly becoming victims of abuse, a survey ahead of the UN-recognised World Elder Abuse Awareness Day has revealed. It highlights the unpreparedness and dependency of older women starkly, with high illiteracy levels, low financial security, lack of awareness on redressal mechanisms and beneficiary schemes, and lack of employment opportunities …

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1 year, 7 months ago

I've Been Told To Go Back Where I Came From. Here's What I Wish I Could Explain.

Huff Post

The author says she faces disapproval over her tattoos when she visits South Korea. I love bath culture, but in South Korea, I always feel like I’m on display at the bathhouse because we’re completely naked and I’m the only one with tattoos. Like all Asian Americans, I hate the question “Where are you from?” because it’s almost always followed …

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1 year, 7 months ago

How one woman fought bigotry and helped change the way Asian Americans see themselves

LA Times

Helen Zia is an early proponent of what was once a novel idea: that Americans with roots in Asia could unite as Asian Americans to organize and, when necessary, agitate. In “Asian American Dreams,” her groundbreaking book that’s part memoir, part social history, she recounts a life-changing incident in high school when she discussed civil rights with two friends — …

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1 year, 8 months ago

Why Padma Lakshmi’s Sports Illustrated Cover Is A Win For Us

Huff Post

Monday’s Met Gala may have been all that the media could talk about, but Padma Lakshmi’s Sports Illustrated cover is all that certain people could think about. “I want everybody to see this pictorial and understand that sometimes a whole new phase that’s even more exciting than anything you’ve ever experienced before can happen well over 40,” she told the …

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1 year, 9 months ago

Michelle Yeoh Has The Perfect Response For People Who Think Women Have A ‘Prime’ Working Age

Huff Post

Mike Coppola via Getty Images Too many women are still told they are "past their prime” in their careers, which is why Yeoh's encouragement is so important. Very few of us will ever become Oscar-winners, but unfortunately the harmful societal assumption that women have a fleeting “prime” working age is still alive and well. Too many women are told they …

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1 year, 10 months ago

For some Chinese women it ‘doesn’t make sense’ to have babies

Al Jazeera

Top-down policy initiatives fail to account for a society whose attitudes towards women have changed little over time. “Normally, I can just excuse myself and hang up the phone when my parents start going on about husbands and babies, but when I am in their house, it’s not that easy to get away from the topic.” Parents and older relatives …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Rise of Asian leads in network TV shows, now ABC’s ‘Company’

Associated Press

In fourth grade, Catherine Haena Kim could not muster the courage to audition for the female lead of her school’s production of William Shakespeare’s “The Tempest.” But her teachers saw something in the way she held herself in the classroom. “When I did this play, I honestly think it’s one of the first times I actually felt seen and special …

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2 years ago

â€˜I wanted to be a blend of western and Indian cultureâ€™: Chandrika Ravi

Deccan Chronicle

Who would have thought that a small town girl from Australia will make it in showbiz, on her own? She learnt acting and modelling and was the first Indian descent woman to become a Miss World Australia and Miss India Australia in 2012 finalist. And I moved to LA because it’s a happening place and larger-than-life symbol of the entertainment …

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2 years ago

How beauty and fashion trends have blurred the gender roles

Firstpost

All in all, fashion and beauty are ways of expressing oneself. The way to move forward is to deconstruct from set standards and exploring the many options available regardless of the gender We have all lived through clichés of blue for boys and pink for girls. Gender fluidity in the recent years Traditionally, fashion and beauty trends have been seen …

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2 years, 1 month ago

Women’s Rights in Asia

The Diplomat

It’s been five years since the “#MeToo Movement” denouncing sexual harrassment and sexual assult swept across the globe, including the Asia-Pacific. And it’s been nearly three years since the COVID-19 pandemic hit, with its knock-on effects exacerbating gender issues from domestic violence to gaps in pay and employment. Many of them replied that it was a difficult question to answer, …

2 years, 3 months ago

Review: Sisterhood Economy Of, By, For Wo(men) by Shaili Chopra

Hindustan Times

Shaili Chopra’s Sisterhood Economy Of, By, For Wo is an engaging read that examines the lives of ordinary and not-so-ordinary women trying to break away from the cycle of gendered roles. She went on to launch SheThePeople, a platform “to discuss life, work, insecurities” of women, and to get to the crux of “why do only one in five women …

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2 years, 3 months ago

On ‘toxic’ Asian stereotypes, ‘problematic’ representation, Meghan Markle talks

Hindustan Times

In the new edition of Meghan Markle's Archetype podcast, the Duchess of Sussex talked about toxic Asian stereotypes with journalist Lisa Ling and actor-comedian Margret Cho. The most recent episode, the first to be released after Queen Elizabeth II's demise, Meghan Markle and the guests discussed a variety of topics which included their own experiences of overcoming stereotypes, problematic representations …

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2 years, 3 months ago

Chinese women face a complex homecoming after studying in Australia

ABC

When Li Fang* returned to China after studying at university in both Australia and New Zealand, she didn't think she'd changed all that much. Li says returned international students have "high requirements" for partners as they "want to find a boyfriend who has not only stayed in China — but has also had a similar overseas experience". While she didn't …

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2 years, 4 months ago

It's Time to Address The More Subtle Forms of Asian Hate

Huff Post

On a recent date with a non-Asian man, I mentioned that I wanted to To him, Asian women did not struggle. Without looking at how Asian women in America have been regarded throughout time, we can’t really understand the current ecosystem of Asian hate. It’s a warped, transactional and dehumanizing 'love' of Asian women that leaves us vulnerable as our …

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