WRITING SAMPLES

Covers

TATB‘s Lana Condor Isn’t Lara Jean

Pose‘s Mj Rodriguez Is Ready For Center Stage

Lovecraft Country‘s Jurnee Smollett Will Never Stop Fighting

Arrow‘s Kat McNamra Shoots Her Shot

Outer Banks‘ Madison Bailey Banks on Herself

Ambyr Childers on Why Candace Is the ‘Vigilante’ of You

Bretman Rock & 25 LGBTQ+ Stars on Their Queer Firsts

Modern Family Is Over, But Ariel Winter Is Just Getting Started

Interviews

How Riverdale Helped Madelaine Petsch Overcome Her Own Bullies

How Katie Stevens’ Breast Cancer Scare Mirrored Her Storyline on The Bold Type

Marvel’s Olivia Holt Is Done With Mansplainers & Body-Shamers

Station 19‘s Danielle Savre on Breaking ‘Tough Female’ Stereotypes

Leonardo Nam Went From Sleeping in Central Park to Westworld

Dear White People‘s Ally Maki Is Done ‘Being Used as a Punchline’

Crazy Rich Asians‘ Gemma Chan on Feeling ‘Fetishized’ by Hollywood

How Awkwafina Went From Working in a Bodega to Starring in Ocean’s 8

At 12, ‘Sitcom Kid’ Albert Tsai Dreams of Stanford and Shark Tank

Essays

BTS Is Redefining What It Means to Be Masculine in America

How Crazy Rich Asians Helped Me Understand My Mom Better

Why Is It So Hard for the U.S. to See Asian-American Olympians as Americans?

Why Are Men So Afraid of Skin Care?

The Bachelor & Love Island Don’t Work For People of Color

How Gay Asian Men Are Both Asexualized & Hypersexualized by Pop Culture

Why the Real Housewives & KUWTK Can Never Be Spoiler-Free

Sex Education & TV’s Pattern of Shipping Gay Characters With Their Abusers

Constance Wu’s Oscars Dress & How Asians Are Reclaiming Yellow

Features

The One-Child Policy’s Legacy Is Sending Young Professionals Back to China

‘Top Model’ Shei Phan Is Channeling Multiracial Identity Into Hip-Hop Art

How an Ex-Computer Scientist Programmed His Way Into the Modeling World

The Insidious Invasion of Student-Teacher Relationships on TV

Snapshots From Quarantine: 40 Celebs Muse on Their Time Social Distancing

What Having Cancer as a College Student Is Like