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We return after our hiatus to touch base on some updates regarding our content and do a news wrap up about recent events including the comedian Shane Gillis racist comments, Crazy Rich Asians writer Adele Lim pay disparity, Alaskan Airlines yellow peril and Chanel Miller reveals herself as the sexual assault survivor of Brock Turner.
Diana's article: https://hyphenmagazine.com/blog/2019/08/yang-song-and-long-history-targeting-asian-american-sex-workers
Amanda Nguyen's organisation: https://www.risenow.us/

We return to talk about White Freeze again but this time we expand upon the real life implications including finding housing and mental health.

We unpack "A Very Offensive Rom-Com", an episode of NPR's Invisibilia podcast with special guest, Maka (@_fakeMT).

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 "A Very Offensive Rom-Com" (NPR): https://www.npr.org/2019/04/04/709948132/a-very-offensive-rom-com  

Breaking the ‘girl code’ and internalized racism (Vi Nguyen): https://www.aprilmag.com/2018/10/10/breaking-the-girl-code-and-internalized-racism/  

White Sexual Imperialism: A Theory of Asian Feminist Jurisprudence (Sunny Woan): https://scholarlycommons.law.wlu.edu/crsj/vol14/iss2/5/ 

We expand upon Orientalism as not just a series of racist stereotypes but a structural arm of white supremacy. This includes feminisation of Asia through colonialism and mass media.



Sources:

I’m A Filipina USC Graduate — Stop Associating Students of Color with the College Bribery Scam (Medium): https://link.medium.com/MwQiEssOpV



Joe Wong Wants Asian American to Speak Up (Plan A): https://planamag.com/joe-wong-wants-asian-america-to-speak-up-7567adc19db4



Performance Review Gender Bias (Fortune): http://fortune.com/2014/08/26/performance-review-gender-bias/

We talk about Asian role models for WHM and some current world events.

https://www.aprilmag.com/2018/04/11/ruby-ibarras-us-empowers-pinays-around-the-world/ 

We sit down and talk about racist oriental-themed restaurants and white sexual imperialism of Asian women.

Sources:
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/11/sex-industry-military-bases-213311  
https://thediplomat.com/2018/01/confronting-koreas-censored-discourse-on-comfort-women/