Cake with essay-length heartfelt messages goes viral in the Philippines

Pasteleria Manila, a bakery founded by Cecilia “Ces” Lopez in 2009, shared a photo of a 10×14 inches caramel cake on Facebook and Instagram...

A Disney Princess in Áo Dài: Learning to Love Being Vietnamese in White America

Editor’s Note: The following piece was chosen as a finalist in NextShark’s personal Essay Contest 2019. The views expressed in story are the...

The Black-and-White Jungle: How Chess Got Me Through My Parents’ Divorce

Editor’s Note: The following piece was chosen as a finalist in NextShark’s personal Essay Contest 2019. The views expressed in story are the...

China Girl Holly: From a Chinese Orphanage to Surviving Racism in America

Editor’s Note: The following piece was chosen as a finalist in NextShark’s personal Essay Contest 2019. The views expressed in story are the...

There Is No Better Half: The Struggle of Growing Up Black and Asian

Editor’s Note: The following piece was chosen as a finalist in NextShark’s personal Essay Contest 2019. The views expressed in the story are...

Matchmaker: A Story of Growing Up Gay in a Homophobic Asian Family

Editor’s Note: The following piece was chosen as the winner of NextShark’s personal Essay Contest 2019. The views expressed in s...

Ex-Reddit CEO Ellen Pao Exposes Details of Sexism in Silicon Valley in Shocking Essay

An excerpt from Ellen Pao’s forthcoming memoir, titled “Reset”, details some of the problems she endured — sexism, discrimination and sexual...

Student in China Reveals Years of Abuse From Teacher in Heartbreaking Essay

A female Chinese student’s essay reflecting on her agonizing experience in the classroom of an abusive teacher has gone viral on social medi...

Mother of Thai Teen Who Wrote Heart-Wrenching Chipotle Essay About Immigrating to the U.S. Dies

The mother of Fue Xiong, whose gripping 300-word essay about his family immigrating from Thailand to the U.S. won Chipotle’s Cultivati...