I don’t usually get too personal on this site, but there have been things I’ve asked myself about. Most readers know I’m a child of immigrants. Most readers know, or at least, have guessed that I grew up fairly comfortable, economically speaking. But despite that, and despite being very comfortable about who I am, my […]
Okay, I definitely DO NOT identify with the super-right wing, especially the American-style right (how can I? I’m Canadian! And I’m pro-equal marriage, too), but more and more, media outlets from the likes of Gawker Media (e.g. Jezebel, etc…) and Salon are annoying me with their super-politically correct perspective. For example, it seems to me […]
The now-cancelled #racetogether campaign at American Starbucks locations had me thinking. Ethnic issues aren’t something that I think about on a daily basis – it’s not something that really “affects” me all that often. However, once in a while, things do happen. As I’ve noted in the past, it almost always comes from women of […]
So Fresh off the Boat has aired for a few weeks and I’ve had a bit of a chance to reflect a bit more. And especially after reading experiences of other Asians on message boards, I feel privileged that my parents really aren’t all that FOBBY (and very different from the show (which is based […]
By the age of just 20, street graffiti artist Jean-Michel Basquiat had already taken the New York art scene by storm. This was the early 1980s and it must have helped that he had made friends with Andy Warhol and other pop-culture artists of the day (Madonna, Blondie). But Basquiat was a ground-breaking artist on […]
I caught the series premiere of Black-ish, a new sitcom starring Anthony Anderson and Laurence Fishburne last night. The show centres around an upper-middle class black family and the culture clash between the father and his kids. Black-ish trailer via IGN While the generational culture clash plot line isn’t new, it’s also rarely told (and […]
I came across a production of My Fair Lady by the Asian American Theater Project from a YouTube email I received over the weekend. With a predominantly Asian cast, the production apparently has an interesting twist as it not only examines the “classism” between a middle class Professor Henry Higgins, lower class Eliza Dolittle and […]
With the success of Les Misérables as a movie musical, including Golden Globe wins and Oscar nominations, talks for a Miss Saigon film are apparently in the preliminary stages. According to a sources, including Musical Theatre News, Hugh Jackman, who picked up a Golden Globe this past weekend, has been approached to play the Engineer, […]
The Huffington Post and UK’s Daily Mail published articles on the lack of diversity in the fashion industry recently. No real surprises in either (the HuffPo one was actually a reaction to the Daily Mail) – just the same old facts about how many non-white models (if used on the runways or catalog shoots at […]
At Shorty Stories yesterday, I wrote about Toronto model agent, Ben Barry, who a few years ago, opened a modelling agency which promoted a wide range of sizes. I criticized him for the lack of true size diversity, considering that he only has six models shorter than 5’7″ or below on his roster (make that […]
