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The Woman Leading A Crusade To Tell More Asian-American Stories

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The Woman Leading A Crusade To Tell More Asian-American Stories

A lifetime of frustration has turned the breakout star of ABC’s Fresh Off the Boat into the perfect poster child for Asian-American representation.

theactivevoice:

If Viola Davis’ Emmy speech last night about the importance of representation in Hollywood got you fired up, check out what Constance Wu had to say about the lack of Asian-American stories. 

Both of these women used their success to bring attention to the need for more (and better written) roles for women of color in American TV and movies. I’d say that’s a pretty powerful example of women using their Active Voices.

(via notjustanyboggs)

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Nov 09, 2015

runwithskizzers:

theblerdgurl:

little-tealeafs-nook:

I think the problem is when producers don’t want to tell an Asian story. They still want to have their white lead actors, but they feel bad, so they want to make sure that they surround the lead actor with people of color. So often, I’ll go to an audition that’s for, like, the best friend and the only character description, aside from being best friend, is all ethnicities except Caucasian… It could be a Latina girl, it could be a Black girl, an Asian girl, it just can’t be white because we already have our white people. In a way, it’s like their bastardized version of trying to be more diverse, without giving props to what diversity really means, which is our individual stories.

PREEEEEACH

This is Hollywood’s (Matt Damon’s) version of diversity.

CONSTANCE WU IS EVERYTHING

(via anniecardi)

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Oct 26, 2015

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