May 29, 2020
10 min read
The Half of It: A Modern Symposium on Love
How Plato’s The Symposium encapsulates Alice Wu’s exploration of love
Warning: contains spoilers
When Netflix released Alice Wu’s The Half of It on May 1st, hype circulated over the protagonist’s intersectional identity. Asian and lesbian, Ellie Chu (Leah Lewis) shows us the challenges of being closeted and Chinese in a…
