In Seattle, generation after generation of Asian American girls have carried on a one-of-kind legacy for over 70 years by joining a team that combines Chinese opera costumes and American military drills. The Seattle Chinese Community Girls Drill Team, which has about 30 high school members, introduces the Chinese culture to the masses by waving large colorful flags at cultural festivals and events each year, all while wearing highly ornamented Cantonese opera costumes and marching in military formation. This drill team gets the spotlight in a new documentary, “She Marches in Chinatown,” that tells the story of a one-of-a-kind cultural tradition. Since 1952, the girls drill team — founded at a time in feminist history when the American woman’s overwhelming cultural role was as “a happy homemaker” — has been a unique way for Asian American girls and women in Seattle to fight for empowerment, passed down from mother to daughter, the documentary emphasizes. Read more at the link in bio...