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When Netflix’s Never Have I Ever first premiered in 2020, the series was hailed as a groundbreaking coming-of-age series with a South Asian lead. Its lead characters are incredibly diverse. For starters, Devi Vishakumar and her immediate family members are Indian-American. Devi’s two best friends are Fabiola Torres, a queer Afro-Latinx character, and Eleanor Wong, a Chinese-American character. Devi also finds herself in a love triangle with two boys. One love interest is Ben Gross, a Jewish sophomore with whom she frequently verbally spars, and the other is Paxton Hall-Yoshida, a popular...

Share on Twitter The death of George Floyd at the hands of police in the United States is leading Australia’s migrant communities to confront their own ideas about racism. Mr Floyd, an African-American, was murdered by white police officer Derek Chauvin in May 2020. Chilling footage shows Mr Floyd repeatedly crying out “I can’t breathe” as Chauvin kneels on his neck. The killing of George Floyd reignited the worldwide Black Lives Matter movement and sparked massive protests against racial inequality across the globe, including in Australia.   Melissa Shrestha was one of ...

China Daily, November 18, 2014. Qiao Collective is a grassroots media collective of diaspora Chinese writers, artists, and researchers devoted to challenging imperialism. In May 2017, Yang Shuping took the podium before a packed auditorium. Sporting a black commencement gown streaked by the University of Maryland’s gold sash, Yang stood by university dean Wallace Loh as he tried to pick out Yang’s parents in the sea of seats before them. “You must feel very proud of your daughter. We certainly are proud of her,” Loh remarked as Yang’s mother stood, holding a bouquet of red roses to ...

Jun 8, 2021 | Features Activists march in response to the Atlanta spa shootings that killed eight in March. Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images by PETER DORFMAN On July 4, 1999, Liana Zhou was driving her son home from a piano lesson when she found East Third Street blocked by police. They were investigating the drive-by killing of Won-Joon Yoon, an Indiana University graduate student who was shot by a white supremacist gunman as he was leaving the Korean United Methodist Church. “I’m still processing it—how random it was,” says Zhou, now director of the Library and Special Collections at...

Netflix’s Shadow and Bone Delivers Long Overdue Asian Diversity Jenevia Kagawa Darcy © Provided by The Mary Sue Netflix Shadow and Bone key art featuring Jessie Mei Li's Alina. **Content warning for rape and sexual assault.** YA adaptations from book to screen are nothing new for Hollywood, but Netflix’s Shadow and Bone first piqued my interest when the main cast announcement was shared a little over a year ago. The reason why I was drawn in by an adaptation of books I had never heard of at the time was simple: The protagonist, Alina Starkov, would be changed from whit...