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Arizona raised, New York grown. Turning my rage into power!
Proud Asian American Feminist.
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Juliet shares her experiences of bullying. Thank you for sharing! This is exactly what MAASU is about. We want to create a space for Asian-Americans to feel safe and accepted.
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The Midwest Asian American Students Union is launching an anti-bullying video campaign! Feel free to submit yours to either their tumblr, their email, or to me and I will pass it along. Tag it with #MAASUFightsBack on Twitter and Tumblr!
Here’s my video.
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Sigma Psi Zeta Sorority Inc. Alpha Chapter at SUNY Albany’s Slutwalk 2013
“This is an anti-rape, anti-sexual assault, anti-BULLSHIT rally!”
mmm. Can’t get enough of Jason Chu.
Here’s a new video of a letter to his mom and dad! A musician who gets it.
“Until our people all are free, I’m yelling freedom from the roof
Until all our people are seen as equal, I will speak the truth.”
SHAME ON YOU, LAMBDA THETA DELTA.
If you go to 0:53 in the video, you can see the blackface routine put on by the Lambda Theta Delta Fraternity at UC Irvine.
This is why we can’t have nice things, your racist anti-black BULLSHIT fucks it up.
TLD was suspended at UC Irvine for hazing 3 years ago and deserves at the very least another suspension. I personally recommend immediate disbandment.
10x10 with Comedian Jenny Yang!
Jesifiable here—not posting inappropriate animated GIFs mind you—and here to present you the second ever 10x10. This time I got to take a poke at stand-up comedian, writer and California gal Jenny Yang. Through a mutual friend, I’ve had the fortune of meeting Jenny; she’s someone who’s helped me personally through my own transition out of college and into the scary world of adult responsibilities. So check it out and let the curtains roll.
(photo credit: Stephanie Lim Photography)
1. In a nutshell, how do you describe and define yourself?
Enthusiastic Asian American Immigrant Food-Eater, Stand-Up Comic, Writer and Social Media Doer.
Early adopters, like young people, see right through a lot of coercive methods of attracting eyeballs through online campaigns. However, these users are also deeply moved by methods of engagement that hit them close to home and make them feel empowered and fired-up about something. When we at 18 Million Rising roll out a campaign that gets people not just talking about and sharing our content, but adding their own, that’s the biggest win we can get. It means we’re tapping into something that’s already there but needs to be articulated in a way that’s accessible and meaningful.
I don’t think specialized knowledge is required to see and understand this “win” when it happens, but I do think that my background in media criticism and theory has helped me make this distinction between coercive and empowering technologies.
I arrived at my understanding of these things via critical theory, and much of my work is deeply rooted in my scholarly work with Walter Benjamin, the Frankfurt School, and also critical race and gender studies. I’d like to think my commitments to empowering users, resisting racism and sexism, and building what Benjamin called “housing for the dreaming collective” for the digital age comes through in my work. I wouldn’t have those touchstones without my theory background.
”ASIAN AMERICAN DISNEY PRINCESSES:
by Kim (annakimskywalker) & Donnie (donniekompany)
11x17 inkjet prints
Most of us grew up watching Disney classics featuring the beautiful Disney princesses we all know and love. Disney was and continues to be a staple in the lives of many children. However, despite how much we admired these princesses, it was difficult relating to them because they didn’t physically represent us. Take a look at any Disney princess product and you will see the preference towards the White princesses, white washing of princesses of color (skin color, facial features, etc), and the shoving of these princesses to the side.In the 76 years since Snow White was released, there have been 11 (soon to be 12) Disney princesses, only 4 of whom are women of color (Jasmine in 1992, Pocahontas in 1995, Mulan in 1998, and Tiana in 2009). It took 55 yearsto portray a woman of color as a princess, and these portrayals also came with problematic and inaccurate representations of their respective cultures & histories (not to mention Tiana was a frog more than half of the movie).
How are young APIA children supposed to believe in “happy endings” when we don’t see them happening to people who look like us?
All of the above was the inspiration behind this photoshoot. We believe physically showing some of our favorite princesses as Asian American women will allow us to build more of a connection with the princesses who weren’t women of color, but who still possess qualities we admire and/or see in ourselves.
**These are just 5 of the 15 we recently showed at our university’s Asian American Studies Expo.
Andrea as Sleeping Beauty
Henna as Belle
Cat as Cinderella
Young as Snow White
Jenny as TinkerbellPhotography/lighting: Kim
Hair/makeup/wardrobe: Donnie
Editing: Kim & Rachelle
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