Journey To The West
By Journey To The West Podcast
Journey To The WestMay 22, 2019
September News Wrap Up + Updates
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/
White Freeze 2.0
We return to talk about White Freeze again but this time we expand upon the real life implications including finding housing and mental health.
Decolonial Love: Swipe Left On Internalized Racism
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/
Orientalism
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/
Women's History Month
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/
Sexual Exploitation
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/
"Tribalism"
On topical news, we talk about Yuja Wang and the Igudesman Joo duo's show The Clone and the difference between satire and just terrible racist jokes. Additionally we touch on how some have adopted dog whistles of "tribalism".
NYT Article on The Clone: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/15/arts/music/yuja-wang-igudesman-joo-carnegie-hall.html
Joe Wong on the Late Show: https://youtu.be/36v9GSOFMFc
Racism and Power
We give some updates on the Hammer Attack Murders, mention Vinh Vu's attack in San Francisco and elaborate more on the context of history of these racist attacks.
Vinh Vu's GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/vinhs-road-to-recovery