Representation for Asians

Because we are more than just your sidekicks or your stereotypes. A blog about the inequality of Asians (and possibly other races) in Hollywood. Feel free to rant.

[royalhandmaidens]

i know i post a lot about racism and other fetishy/orientalist themes in Star Wars media, past and present, but in light of John Boyega's most recent interview, as well as previous statements from Kellie Marie Tran, i believe that now is the time, now more than ever, to hold creators, writers, and directors accountable for this:

and this:

and one of the best ways you can do this, especially if you are not a fan of colour, is to boost the voices of people of colour who are speaking out against this. listen. learn. provide space and treat others with dignity. stop praising creators for being inclusive when they only give crumbs of diversity and fall short of true inclusivity and proper representation. use your platform to elevate voices of colour instead of drowning out the cries, even if your own cries are well intentioned

sometimes the hardest part about being an ally is knowing when to be quiet

[srirachaiesbian]

the way people view my race in america has made it so very hard to distance myself from femininity

i could do anything to my body and still be viewed as a small, cute asian girl

really fks me up that people think it’s okay to tell others who obviously have a poor relationship w femininity that they look feminine and will always look cute no matter what

v not ok

[srirachaiesbian]

if anything, this is proof that media / represent is effected by and then effects reality.

[srirachaiesbian]

specific examples that happened to me:

i was preyed on by multiple kpop and anime fans to fulfill their asian fetish

kpop fan told me to my face all asians are either drop dead gorgeous or ugly

kpop fan told me multiple times on days i felt good and comfortable w presenting masculine “u look rlly feminine today”

kpop fan told me i could get tattoos all over my body and piercings all over my face and i would still look cute

i was told multiple times that it was rare for asian ppl to have lips like me or a chest like me (look like an adult???)

anime fan told me he could beat the shit out of me / could easily kill me and didn’t understand why i was uncomfortable

anime fan would mansplain me constantly the entire time i knew him about literally everything (including my own culture)

anime fan constantly talked down on me like i was always doing something wrong and incapable of doing anything right

multiple ppl laughed at the idea of me thinking of myself as hot / handsome / cool instead of cute

i don’t think u guys realize how demeaning this is and this has been a constant my entire life. even as an adult, ppl use words they use for children to describe me. ppl babytalk to me. this is why many asian ppl take offense to being called cute. it’s infantilizing, dehumanizing, and emasculating.

ex of ppl doing this to full grown celebrities:

sandra oh

marie kondo

lana condor

literally every single kpop idol and every single actor in the untamed

i’m begging u to be mindful. i am so sick of being viewed and treated this way, esp by ppl who apparently Love asian ppl.

watch how u treat asian ppl online and irl. we’re people deserving of basic respect. we’re people who are varied. we’re people who have boundaries.

watch how u consume and interact w asian media and asian fictional characters. it fully affects how u view asian ppl as a whole.

[rodrickheffeley]

lemme have my moment lemmme have my moment

[eastasiansonwesternscreen]

Lana Condor to Star in Rom-Com ‘Moonshot’ for Greg Berlanti, HBO Max

Moonshot is set in a future where Mars is terraformed and colonized by the best humanity has to offer. Two very different college students wind up joining forces and sneak onboard a space shuttle to the red planet in order to be united with their significant others.

Condor will star as focused and buttoned-up college student, Sophie. She is a woman with a plan — or at least, she was before her boyfriend Calvin moved to Mars, and she decided to go after him. (via THR)

[eastasiansonwesternscreen]

Amazon Sets Mystery-Comedy ‘Nancy Wu Done It’ From Kai Yu Wu And Jessica Henwick

The new comedy series titled Nancy Wu Done It comes from writers and executive producers Kai Yu Wu (co-executive producer of Amazon’s Paper Girls and Carnival Row) and Jessica Henwick (Iron Fist and Game of Thrones actress) and is described as a mashup of Pleasantville and Nancy Drew.

The story follows a frustrated Asian American female YA author who suddenly finds herself transported into one of her own books. As a result, she must work with the titular character she created — who she now hates — to solve an unfinished mystery. (via Deadline)

[slipknut]

Ellie Chu: nerd energy

Leah Lewis: jock energy

[pleasekeepthisasecret]

I always expect the awards system to ignore people of color + women and yet I'm always surprised and offended when they do. It's like I never learn, no matter how many years it happens in a row. You'd think I'd take the hint.

[pleasekeepthisasecret]

Academy members to Akwafina: we're so sorry but between the movie Parasite and Scarlett Johansson (twice), we have filled our quota for Asian representation :/

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[crazyrichxplainr]

David Lim and wife Marketa Kazdova on Sophisticated Weddings magazine.

[rocktheholygrail]

Manny Jacinto on how The Good Place inspired him to propose to his girlfriend Dianne Doan

[yanananas]

I saw this and thought that more people should see it. I think that this girl is speaking the truth and I have so much respect for her. Plus there are still trainees who haven’t been debuted yet, even if they have so much talent and have been training for years. I don’t think it’s fair to them.

[diaryofanangryasianguy]

Is it just me, or does racism against asians (esp east asians) seem almost "acceptable"? Our skin is just light enough to be counted as "white" by some standards, but never fully white due to our culture and looks. But like the other anon said, the model minority myth makes it seem like other poc can take shots at us too? It's really depressing.

Oh definitely.

I can’t remember who said it but an Asian woman said that Asian Americans were the “weapons” but not the “warriors.” The saying refers to the concept that we‘re used by whites to further their narrative and conversely, we are also used by non-whites to further theirs. But we aren’t in control of ourselves nor using our own means to create our own narrative. We’re just here to be used and thrown around by different groups when the time calls for it.

If you think about it like that, she’s fucking right lol. And there are Asian folks that will stand with whites and allow themselves to be the white weapon. Then there are other Asian folks that will stand with non-whites and allow themselves to be the non-white weapon. Then there are people like me who are like “wait a fucking minute. I don’t want to take part in either of this bullshit” because neither one of them treats us as warriors but instead, we’re treated as weapons to be used for their own causes.

Idk about y’all but I want to be both the warrior and the weapon. As selfish as it may sound, I want to own myself and my stories and experiences and everything else. Of course there will be times when we need to be a weapon and other times a warrior but at the end of the day, I want to be both for me. For my friends. My family. My folks. For some of y’all.

We need ask ourselves, are we okay being one or the other? Or can we be both? All I know is I don’t want to be the weapon exclusively, especially not to be wielded by others who don’t care about me.

Angry Asian Guy

[cameronhcwes]

I can’t just say “Fuck it” and then hurt you the way that Nate did. I’m sorry, but that would kill me if I did that to you.

PLUS ONE (2019) dir. Jeff Chan and Andrew Rhymer

[authorkurikuri]

shout out to forgotten asians.

shout out to south asians: asians from india, pakistan, sri lanka, bangladesh, afghanistan, bhutan, maldives.

shout out to ignored east asians from countries less romanticized than china, japan, and south korea: to mongolia, taiwan, vietnam, and further southeast to singapore, malaysia, the phillipines, east timor, brunei, cambodia, myanmar, laos, thailand.

shout out to ethnic groups within more known asian countries, like the tibetan people in china and the ainu and ryukyuan people in japan.

shout out to russian asians. shout out to central asians in former soviet countries, to people from kazakhstan, turkmenistan, tajikistan, uzbekistan, kyrgyzstan.

shout out to western asians in countries that don’t fit neatly into trivial western/european geographical boundaries of the middle east, of south asia, of europe, of africa. 

shout out to mixed asians, to latinax asians, to black asians, to indigenous asians, to mixed south and east asians, and every combination.

asian people are more than just the same few ethnicities shown on tv.

[leviaana]

What I say: I'm fine

What I mean: I need more adrienette fanart with asian marinette

[korra-of-the-watertribe]

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