All posts by Sukhmani Khorana
More than ‘model minorities’: in Netflix’s Beef, Asian migrants are allowed to have real emotions
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. If you ever watched the Korean-Canadian television show Kim’s Convenience or the Taiwanese-American Fresh off the Boat, you would have felt seemingly content with the progress of Asian diasporic representation on mainstream screens. These drama series may have…
Census data shows we’re more culturally diverse than ever. Our institutions must reflect this
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. Initial data from the 2021 census released this week shows Australia continues to become more culturally diverse. Almost half of us have at least one parent born overseas (48.2%), and almost a quarter of us (24.8%) speak a…
Here Out West: a film that centres Western Sydney through tales of marginality
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. An anthology film usually makes us think of romantic comedies released over Christmas that showcase a global city through interconnected plot lines, or a series of vignette-like character studies by critically-acclaimed directors. Produced by Western Sydney-based company Co-Curious…