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Jan 6, 2025 | 
shado-mag.com | Ning Chang
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Feb 26, 2024 | 
shado-mag.com | Ning Chang
It’s the newest marketing of a centuries-old hegemonic patriarchal agenda. And while agenda can feel like a strong word to describe “mob wives” and such, it is the right word. Picking an argument over “office sirens” as a feminist issue becomes something I take “too seriously” for ascribing feminist warning bells to something as simple as internet-oriented fancy-dress. It’s the newest marketing of a centuries-old hegemonic patriarchal agenda.
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Feb 23, 2024 | 
shado-mag.com | Ning Chang |Rosa Kusabbi
If you think about the abiding trends and traits of each decade or generation, the Gen Xers in the 80s had their era of perms and their neon; the millennials in the aughts and teens had their era of whale tails and their indie sleaze, and now we have our era of eras. Much has already been written about the rapidly cycling nature of trends and microtrends, and how they reflect our particular brand of late-stage capitalism.
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Jan 15, 2024 | 
shado-mag.com | Ning Chang
South Africa filed a case with the ICJ accusing Israel of “genocidal acts,” but what does this mean?
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Jan 2, 2024 | 
shado-mag.com | Ning Chang |Natasha Lee |MOB Kitchen
On Friday 29th December, South Africa filed an application with the International Court of Justice (ICJ) requesting urgent action on the violence in Gaza, accusing Israel of violating the 1948 Genocide Convention and committing “genocidal acts.” When the news broke, I, like so many people, felt a sense of relief. It felt like an international authority was finally taking notice, and there would be greater potential for a sustainable peace and an end to the escalating violence.
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Dec 10, 2023 | 
columbiaspectator.com | Ning Chang
December 10, 2023, 3:06 PM By Gabe de la Cruz / Staff IllustratorLast summer, my grandmother opened the family safe to show us her gold jewelry. In between bracelets and earrings, there were two chunks of gold that she said my great-great-grandmother had sewn into her clothing to keep safe as she migrated overseas. They came from a time when emperors ruled China and are stamped with Chinese characters I couldn’t understand.
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Nov 20, 2023 | 
columbiaspectator.com | Avian Munoz |Sydney Goldson |Ning Chang |Andrew Park
On October 12, a huge crowd assembled on the east side of South Lawn to show support for Palestinians. As helicopters hovered over campus, student leaders held a moment of silence honoring all victims of violence, led peaceful chants, and gave powerful speeches advocating for the rights and dignity of all those affected by Israeli occupation. But this is not the story that the media told.
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Oct 9, 2023 | 
shado-mag.com | Ning Chang
12 Weeks is about Alice, a successful, career-oriented 40-year-old who grapples with an unexpected pregnancy, its impact on her life and interpersonal relationships, while also seeking an illegal abortion in the strongly Catholic country. Yet, Sunshine resists defining 12 Weeks as an abortion film – the label is too “sensationalist” and “festival bait” – to her, the film is more so about modern womanhood in the Philippines.
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Aug 20, 2023 | 
shado-mag.com | Ning Chang
It is not a stretch to say that the hyper-carceral, hyper-capitalist world of Loretta and Hamara is just a few steps from our own. “It’s really just a slight extrapolation against where we already are,” Nana observes as we chat over Zoom.
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Aug 16, 2023 | 
shado-mag.com | Ning Chang
In the late afternoon of one of this summer’s hottest days on record, I sat down for a conversation with writer and director Anna Isabelle “Sunshine” Matutina. 12 Weeks, her first feature film, was premiering internationally in this year’s New York Asian Film Festival at Lincoln Center in New York City. Sunshine is a whirlwind of energy in a bright pink top and a chic pixie cut – it was hard to believe she had stepped off a flight from the Philippines less than 12 hours earlier.
