While continental Asia holds is home to a population of 4.561 billion as of 2018 and is divided into over 45 countries, many of which boast of great ethnic and cultural diversity, the term “Asian” is one that confounds much of the rest of the world. From Japan, North and South Korea, and the PhilippinesContinue reading “Desirability Politics: The Slow Transformation of “Asian” in Hollywood’s Hierarchy”
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All Press is Good Press: Prominent Asian Public Figures and Their Impact on Queer Discourse
“In these our cowardly times, we deny the grandeur of the Universal, and assert and glorify our local Bigotries, and so we cannot agree on much. In these our degenerate times, men bent on nothing but vainglory and personal gain- hollow, bombastic men for whom nothing is off-limits if it advances their petty cause- will claim to be great leaders and benefactors, acting in the common good, and calling all who oppose them liars, envious, little people, stupid people, stiff, and, in a precise reversal of the truth, dishonest and corrupt.”
― Salman Rushdie, The Golden House
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