Writing: Pop Culture & Art
Alice Meichi Li
🎨 Illustrator + Painter
🤓 Comics + Pop Culture Nerd
👩🏻💻 Lady in the Streets + Freak in the Stylesheets
🎨 Illustrator + Painter
🤓 Comics + Pop Culture Nerd
👩🏻💻 Lady in the Streets + Freak in the Stylesheets
Writing: Pop Culture & Art
"THE PAST FILLED OUR VISION AND BEGAN TO BLOT OUT OUR FUTURE" Massive Attack's sold-out MezzanineXXI concert in NYC was at once an ecstatic thought exercise (in the religious sense) on Time, Technology, and Tyrants; as well as a meditation on the question: What if Black Mirror were music?
Photo by Sanja Bucko - © 2017 Warner Bros. & RatPac-Dune Entertainment LLC After seeing Crazy Rich Asians , I had some thoughts about Awkwafina , AAVE (African American Vernacular English), and my Asian-American identity.
When visiting London, I usually try to make a trip out to Brick Lane - an eclectic road lined with work from some of the city's most prominent street artists. No more fitting a place could I have stumbled across Paul Stephenson's painting "Shutterstock" at StolenSpace Gallery.
Last weekend, fans orchestrated a #WeWantWidow flash mob in response to the glaring lack of Black Widow representation. Not surprising -- the scant merchandising surrounding the Avengers franchise, the denial of a solo movie, and her character development in Age of Ultron have all been topics plaguing the Marvel Cinematic Universe's most recent portrayal of their first female Avenger.
by Alice Meichi Li There's something obvious that's been under our noses this entire time: Spider-Man as a Korean American named Peter Park, played by The Walking Dead's Steven Yeun. 'Nuff said, as Stan Lee would say. Not 'nuff? Okay. When Donald Glover's offhanded tweet brought the idea of a black Spider-Man into the world, we were...
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When I was a kid, I was always mesmerized by those figurines of wizards and fairies and unicorns and mythical creatures. If I stared at them long enough, I could have sworn the unicorns might have tilted their heads just slightly or the wizards may have waved their wands to some incantation I couldn't hear.
Inspiring read: One of my favorite authors is Ian McEwan. I've read every-thing he has written, and his work always stays with me for weeks. He really nails the zeitgeist with his acute social observations. I feel that one of his most timely books is Solar, a book about climate change-written with a fierce and biting tone.
Sadly, gender disparity is part and parcel of almost every industry on our little blue planet. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, of the 534 occupations listed, women make more than men in exactly seven positions; to be clear, that represents 3% of the female workforce.
As the classic storytelling device goes, a hero is called to save the world. And he-or she-must (sometimes reluctantly) answer the call by traversing new worlds with dragons and ogres, encountering goddesses and mentors, setbacks and a final battle in order to return victorious with an elixir to save the day.
Welcome to the world of Alice Meichi Li, where fantasy meets the future. Everything you thought you knew about musicians and fairies is all wrong... or is it? How about a different view? We've got an incredible gallery of Li's work that will give you new perspective on the world of fairies.
