Nearly five years have passed since Marvel Studios released Destin Daniel Cretton’s Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, the company’s first superhero movie to feature a Chinese Canadian lead who’s best known f...

Up until the last decade or so, it wasn’t unheard of to see women pitted against each other.

In fact, it was the norm—both in real life, as well as in pop culture. Whitney versus Mariah. Brandy versus Monica. Britney versus Christina. Music “rivalries” may have been the most prominent, but no industry was exempt.

For us sporty folks, there w...

March can generally feel like a turning point for many. The days become a little longer, the air becomes warmer, and the first signs of spring start to push through the last stubborn bits of winter. For this month’s JoySauce Radio we’re leaning into that feeling of renewal with a lineup made entirely of female artists who only have room to grow as they mo...

If Asian diasporic identity isn’t a monolith, then it’s reasonable to say that Asian diasporic comedy isn’t, either. It can be cringey, bold, provocative, audacious, and even heartfelt—and funny, of course, though this is perhaps the least important trait to bring up. We’re all adults here, and thus capable of presuming that if comedy should be anything a...

Long absent from U.S pop culture has been the bleakly comic girlhood satire, à la the murder romp Jawbreaker or the pageant mockumentary Drop Dead Gorgeous, both from 1999. Unless you count recent, less successful remakes like the Heathers TV show or the Mean Girls musical, few major works can be reshaped to fit the pecu...