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Examining The Under-Representation of Asian Heroes through The Last Jedi’s Rose Tico
By Linh Nguyen These past couple months held no shortage of kick-ass action movies. Like millions of people across the globe, I headed to theatres to see Avengers: Infinity War and Solo: A Star Wars Story and revel in the films’ charismatic heroes. Though I largely enjoyed my viewing experience I left with a familiar…
Taking Back Tết: My New Year is Not Chinese
By Linh Nguyen Last Christmas, I was lying on a deck chair beside the pool in Cuba when a man came up and asked me if I was Chinese. “I’m not,” I answered. “What are you then?” he said. The question was certainly nothing new, posed in the same assertive tone that expected an enthusiastic…
NaNoWriMo with Project 40 Collective
It’s officially November, which means that fiction writers everywhere are heading into their dusty caves to take on the challenge that is NaNoWriMo. How it works: the goal is to get to 50,000 words by the end of the month (50,000 words is the cut-off for a novel). To do this, you will have…