‘To All the Boys I Loved Before’ may be a love story, but it also is a much-needed representation of transracial Asian adoptees, too — In a pivotal scene in Netflix teen rom-com To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before (TATBILB), 16-year-old Lara Jean sits in a diner staring down at a photo of her dead mother while her father tells her stories about her mother’s favorite music and how she loved to dance right…

What are genetics, exactly, when we are adopted? — The first time I try to tell the future, I am 8 years old. I sit with friends around a table in the cafeteria and we make lists of the types of places we’ll live (mansion, apartment, shack) and the men we’ll marry (a who’s who of 90’s Hollywood heartthrobs)…

Jessica Huang’s friendship with a white neighbor centers the Asian-American experience in a way I’d never seen before on TV.