Disney& #39;s live action Mulan would& #39;ve sucked even if it was 100% historically accurate/didn& #39;t misuse qi, because its lead actors are pro-police fascism and it erases all the ways the animated was a catalyst for queer trans AsAm kids figuring out their cultural and individual IDs.

As an aside, I firmly believe that BD Wong, one of the few out gay AsAm actors on tv at the time, voice acting Shang, and Shang becoming a bisexual icon for AsAm millennials is no coincidence. Splitting him into one heteronormy father figure and one rando w/no chemistry is...????

When queer AsAms first expressed disappointment w/no Shang and no songs (where the bulk of queertext happened), we were told "Shang wasn& #39;t in the original legend so stfu. This is more historically accurate" w/e that means for a LEGEND that& #39;s been retold and changed many times.

It& #39;s not lost on me who gets to steer the convo on "Chinese authenticity" here. Every time big Western media rep of China comes up, there might as well be a glaring neon sign that reads: "Mainland thoughts only, 2nd+ gen diaspora gtfo."

Anways. This sucks irony& #39;s balls. https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/06/asia/hong-kong-protests-elections-arrest-intl/index.html">https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/0...