A Chinese-American writer living in New York, Louise is a contributor and researcher for the Order of the Good Death and Ask a Mortician. You can find her on Twitter @LouiseHung1.
A few years ago I wrote regularly for a popular online publication. The topics I covered ran the gamut from food, to culture, to even local legends and folklore. What all my pieces had in common was...
I was in graduate school before I acknowledged something was wrong. The worries, the quirks, the little obsessive tendencies that I could previously ignore or just chalk up to my being “eccentric...
In Japan, NHK (Japan’s public broadcasting organization) produces a program called Cool Japan. In it, new transplants to Japan are taken on cultural field trips around the country. In the...
Full disclosure: I didn’t see A Christmas Story Live! It’s never been one of my favorite holiday movies (I know…sacrilege!), and even though I saw all the hype around performing it live with a...
Whenever I go to sketch comedy or variety shows in the US, I always keep my eye out for performers who fall outside the “typical” comedian stereotype. Will there be the usual team of white dudes...
To many people hearing the term, "model minority" sounds like a good thing. Why wouldn't you want to be the "model", the "best", the example that inspires others? If you are in the majority, it can...
Every year, around Thanksgiving, my mom updates me on her antique clock. If I make it home for Thanksgiving, she asks me daily, sometimes twice a day, “Has the clock chimed for you? You have to...
For President Donald Trump and President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines, their recent meeting couldn’t have gone better. Egos were stroked, there was no talk of those pesky “human rights”...
The year since Trump was elected has been an important year to be an Asian-American or Pacific Islander. It’s been a frustrating year. It’s been an inspiring year. At times it’s been a...
Before Star Trek: Discovery premiered, Michelle Yeoh’s accent received some attention. Soon after the release of a trailer, people started talking about the fact that Yeoh, a Chinese-Malaysian...
