March 2011
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I’ve been thinking of titling this API queer zine, and one idea someone presented to me was “BAD ASIANS.”
Someone once called Filipinos “The bad Asians” to my face without knowing that both my parents were Boholanos.
As people who stand outside and within of normative race, gender, sexuality, presentation, let’s own up and be proud of the ways in which we are...
Thoughts on White Beauty
So I’d still like to talk to Queer Asian/Pacific Islander Americans about their relationship to gender and sexuality policing.
One aspect that’s been on my mind especially lately are conceptions of beauty and attractiveness and how they are forged by white heteronormativity. I’ve recently been bleaching my hair, and have stopped at a sort of medium golden blond color up top. It...
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