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Fresh Off The Boat

13 Deeply Personal Details And Stories Constance Wu Shared In Her New Memoir, "Making A Scene"

"They say that 'success' will be when our Asian-ness isn’t a part of the story, when we get cast in 'non-stereotypical' roles. I do not subscribe to this idea of success. That career ethos, that desire to shut down Asian stereotypes, is a reaction to a Hollywood standard that was created by people who do not know us.”

Madison McGee

"I Was Unsafe At That Point": Constance Wu Tearfully Spoke About Her Attempted Suicide And What Pushed Her To That Point

"I read these DMs from an Asian actress, somebody who should have been my ally," Constance said. "And I felt like nothing I could ever do would be enough. I felt like the only thing that would prove to her that I felt as bad as she thought I deserved to feel would be if I died."

Morgan Sloss

The Year The Networks Finally Embraced Diversity

It's not just one show, it's not just one network: For the first time in network TV history, shows with actors of color in lead roles outnumber shows with predominantly white casts.

Kate Aurthur

39 Stars We Couldn't Get Enough Of In 2015

There were plenty of impressive performances this year, but BuzzFeed Entertainment talked with a group of actors about their particularly outstanding achievements — on screen and off. Here are our features, presented in chronological order of when they were published.

Jaimie Etkin

We Have Reached Peak Granny

Granny hair, granny panties, grannies all over popular media — what does the visibility of older women and the fashions associated with them suggest about our current cultural moment?

Anne Helen Petersen

7 Essays To Read This Week: Miscarriages, Fembots, And Gay Marriage

One writer who suffered multiple miscarriages explains how stigma discourages Asian-American women from seeking reproductive and mental health care. Read that essay and other stories from BuzzFeed, The Atlantic, Wired, and Oxford American.

Susan Cheng

I'm An Asian-American Actor But I Can't Do The Accent

As a Taiwanese-American actor, I can’t afford to pass on every role that calls for an “Asian accent.” Sometimes the parts are even good. The problem is, I can’t do one.

Grace Su

"Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt" Has A Major Race Problem

The Netflix series, created by 30 Rock's Tina Fey and Robert Carlock, brought audiences a nuanced (and hilarious) black gay man, but its Asian-American and Native American characters are far from perfect, as are the jokes about them.

Anne Helen Petersen
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