Malaysian lawmakers passed the country’s first-ever bill criminalizing stalking in early October.
South Korean politics took a right-wing, anti-feminist turn during the presidential election in early March.
We recently had the chance to chat with Gao over email about creating such an emotional memoir, her early memories of Wuhan, and her message for her Asian American readers.
It was not easy for 21-year-old Mehak to convince her parents to support her dream of becoming a rapper.
When actor and dancer Avantika first had the chance to read the script for Spin, the new Disney Channel film about an Indian American teen named Rhea who discovers her talent for DJing, she immediately knew she wanted to be involved.
“Skateboarding is usually considered to be a boy’s sport, but we were meeting so many girls and boys who were taking to skateboarding and really thriving at it."
Seventeen-year-old Gurnoor Suri began her activist journey at the young age of 7 when she began donating her belongings to an orphanage she stumbled upon on her way back home from school.
Ketaki Tyagi has been a staunch climate change activist since the age of 14.
Sexist microaggressions perpetuated among peers also contribute to the prevalence of rape culture in Indian high schools.
I was so excited we finally made our trip happen, I didn’t think to prepare myself for how we’d be perceived in Indonesia as two Black girls from Africa.
Despite their disproportionate vulnerability, the Indian government has largely ignored commercially sexually exploited people in its response to the coronavirus pandemic.
Chinese American filmmaker Cathy Yan recently became the first Asian American woman to direct an American superhero film with the newest installment in the DC Extended Universe, Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn).
The CAA’s language grants a legal path to citizenship for only some "persecuted minorities." Muslims, as well as groups like Tamil refugees from Sri Lanka, Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar, and Buddhist refugees from Tibet, are all left out.
There has never been a female winner of Formula 1 (F1) racing — the most prestigious category in the motorsport. But 13-year-old Juju Noda wants to change that.
In Sri Lanka, as in many other nations, women’s periods are taboo. While families celebrate when a girl bleeds for the first time, as she is seen to have come of age, every month from then on patriarchal values are applied to this natural cycle of life.
As a young girl growing up in McKinney, Texas, I always viewed Hinduism as an open-minded and accepting, kind and forgiving religion. Yet, as I grew older, I noticed these religious values were often lost in the culture surrounding modern Hinduism; instead, this culture often seemed to neglect women.
On April 27, thousands of people gathered in central Jakarta for the 2019 Women's March, parading in solidarity to support women's right in the archipelago and across the globe.
Emerging feminist media platforms are helping South Asian people engage in, navigate, and mobilize feminist movements.
Feminists all over the world are fighting to shift these conversations about consent toward a more nuanced understanding of the complex power dynamics that exist in all social relationships. ThaiConsent is one organization doing just that.
The biggest advocates for prohibition were Indian women who pointed to the access of alcohol as the cause of their drunk husbands’ destructive and even violent behavior.
How truly impactful has the #MeToo and other dominant feminist movements been in India, considering that they frequently leave out the most oppressed group in the country: Dalit women.
It was only a matter of time before the echoes of Hollywood’s #MeToo and #TimesUp movements reached Bollywood, India’s film industry. That watershed moment finally arrived this September, when Indian actress Tanushree Dutta made accusations of harassment against industry veteran Nana Patekar
Religion is the thread that runs through the heart of India, but these questions have hardly been explored in public. Indian women’s ideas about religion have particularly been ignored by these institutions. So I decided to ask them about it.
For the past few years, Yemen has been experiencing a catastrophic humanitarian crisis. The country has been wrought with a number of problems, and young Yemenis, especially young women, have been particularly affected by this conflict. Despite this troubling situation, however, a portion of Yemeni youth still dream of a better future. Among those who remain hopeful and productive are artists — a large number of whom are women.
How can we translate Asian women’s leadership in their respective countries to the international stage?