Thanks to the efforts of the online group 18 Million Rising, the smartphone app “Make me Asian” was removed from Google Play today.The app allowed its users to turn their faces into stereotypical Asian caricatures. Believing that this app perpetuated negative and offensive stereotypes, 18 Million Rising started a twitter campaign aimed at Google to [...]

Call it the spring mating season. Call it my biological clock ticking. But recently I’ve been seeing babies everywhere. And even though I’m totally biased and it’s probably totally not cool to say, you gotta admit that Asian babies are the cutest babies. Ever. It’s just a fact. Even Hollywood seems to think so. Here’s [...]

With Mother’s Day coming up, we’d like to shine the spotlight on some particularly noteworthy Asian moms. These movers and shakers turn the Asian mom stereotype on its head! Yoko Ono Yoko Ono is most widely known for her marriage to John Lennon, but she’s also made a name for herself in art, music, writing, [...]

Oh the joys of motherhood. People wax poetic about that “glow,” about the life-changing, almost divine experience of giving birth, about looking into your perfect little one’s screaming red face for the first time. I may not be so sure about all that, but after having spent that last two years watching my niece progress [...]

Though we’re just a few months into the Year of the Tiger, I’m already getting a case of deja vu. From that guy who “made off” with everyone’s money to the mortgage fallout, the end of the last decade’s financial scandals are being resurrected in several films this year. But none takes these heady issues [...]