Kelly Marie Tran’s role as Rose Tico in Star Wars, Constance Wu’s debut in Crazy Rich Asians and Lana Condor in To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before are all incredible examples of powerful, relatable and beautiful Asian women cast in leading roles. With the collective and widespread success of these movies, the question we
Warning: Sense8 spoilers ahead! It’s not every day you find a brown woman portrayed with actual nuance on mainstream television. This is part of a representation problem encountered by almost every ethnic/marginalised minority on-screen – a problem steeped in incompleteness, narrowness and stereotypes. But the recently-cancelled (alas!) Netflix show Sense8, a series that has been