Making Myself Visible

With brotherly love from ‘Family Law’ creator Benjamin, playwright  Michelle Law tells her own story onscreen in ‘Homecoming Queens’

- Cynthia Wang

Two minutes into her 2012 TEDxSouthBank Women talk entitled “A Bald Woman’s Guide to Survival”, essayist and Single Asian Female playwright Michelle Law concedes, “Baldness in women is a very private thing, which is why I’ve spent my life hiding.” Then, with a sudden motion, she pulls off her wig to make a very public declaration of living with the autoimmunity disorder alopecia areata, daring attendees to question their biases about body image and identity.

Six years later, Law, now 28, is challenging audiences again, this time on the SBS On Demand series