Masculinity

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Asian American men aren’t taking s*** any more.

by David Yi in Real Life

“I am an Oriental. And being an Oriental, I could never be completely a man.” It’s a cringeworthy quote from David Henry Hwang’s 1988 play, M. Butterfly, the same that won that year’s Tony Award. The story follows a French soldier who is sent to China where...

I’m a man who took my wife’s last name

by David Yi in Look

My name is Ian Peters, and I chose to take my wife’s last name. Coming into writing this, I considered waxing poetic about identity; speaking to what a name means. I considered digging into the minutiae of my personal history to justify the decision and cracking a joke or...

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