Jean, Thanks for citing Celine Shimizu-Parrenas' interview in Vox. I read it thoroughly and it is much needed, and gives context to the ignorant and haphazard media coverage. Thanks also for providing the names and ages of our sisters in Atlanta, GA who were massacred in silence. I hold them in my heart. - Catalina Cariaga
Thanks for responding, Catie. I think Celine's take is important to keep in mind -- also her book, Hypersexuality of Race. "When we dismiss Asian American women's embrace of sexuality in representation as simply dangerous and immoral we deprive ourselves of the profoundly interesting ways race, sex, performance, and visual culture work together to convey creativity, pleasure, power, and trauma simultaneously" (Parrenas-Shimizu). In a my own way, those issues were something I was trying to untangle in Corporeal. And yes -- the names are important. There's actually a TikTok going around of women pronouncing the victims' names as the media has been pronouncing them, and as they are being pronounced in their respective cultures.
Jean, Thanks for citing Celine Shimizu-Parrenas' interview in Vox. I read it thoroughly and it is much needed, and gives context to the ignorant and haphazard media coverage. Thanks also for providing the names and ages of our sisters in Atlanta, GA who were massacred in silence. I hold them in my heart. - Catalina Cariaga
Thanks for responding, Catie. I think Celine's take is important to keep in mind -- also her book, Hypersexuality of Race. "When we dismiss Asian American women's embrace of sexuality in representation as simply dangerous and immoral we deprive ourselves of the profoundly interesting ways race, sex, performance, and visual culture work together to convey creativity, pleasure, power, and trauma simultaneously" (Parrenas-Shimizu). In a my own way, those issues were something I was trying to untangle in Corporeal. And yes -- the names are important. There's actually a TikTok going around of women pronouncing the victims' names as the media has been pronouncing them, and as they are being pronounced in their respective cultures.