A performance artist secretly recorded interactions with strangers.

Here's what resulted.

Via @christicarras https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2021-04-08/kyoko-takenaka-short-film-home-instagram-viral
Kyoko Takenaka recorded racist things men said in bars. For many, it hit home

Kyoko Takenaka's short film 'Home' has gone viral on Instagram. It contains audio recordings of racist comments men made to Takenaka in bars.

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2021-04-08/kyoko-takenaka-short-film-home-instagram-viral
Kyoko Takenaka initially felt guilty about secretly recording men who approached in bars.

Takenaka usually used a phone to document the many racist and misogynistic comments strangers made https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2021-04-08/kyoko-takenaka-short-film-home-instagram-viral
Kyoko Takenaka recorded racist things men said in bars. For many, it hit home

Kyoko Takenaka's short film 'Home' has gone viral on Instagram. It contains audio recordings of racist comments men made to Takenaka in bars.

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2021-04-08/kyoko-takenaka-short-film-home-instagram-viral
But Takenaka realized "all of these experiences are nonconsensual, and Asian Americans are holding on to all of these nonconsensual experiences and microaggressions that don’t belong to us"
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2021-04-08/kyoko-takenaka-short-film-home-instagram-viral
Audio from the unsolicited exchanges can be heard in Takenaka’s film “Home,” released publicly last month.

A social media post featuring the audio has over 300K views. Watch:
  https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2021-04-08/kyoko-takenaka-short-film-home-instagram-viral
“What’s so triggering and frustrating is that it’s those same people who are now posting #StopAsianHate ... who gentrify our neighborhoods and erase our community in Little Tokyo and Chinatown."
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2021-04-08/kyoko-takenaka-short-film-home-instagram-viral
Commentary: The casual racism of mispronouncing an Asian person’s name https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2021-04-06/mispronouncing-asian-names-racism-ovation-awards
The casual racism of mispronouncing an Asian person’s name

Jully Lee, a nominee for a recent L.A. theater award, pronounces her name like “Julie.” It matters in the theater industry and in the world at large.

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2021-04-06/mispronouncing-asian-names-racism-ovation-awards
An Asian actor got disrespected at L.A. theater awards.

What happened next was swift and powerful https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2021-04-01/los-angeles-theater-ovation-awards-asian-actor
An Asian actor got disrespected at L.A. theater awards. What happened next was swift and powerful

Ovation Award organizers mistake nominee Jully Lee for a different Asian actor. In protest, the city's largest theaters pull out of the L.A. Stage Alliance.

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2021-04-01/los-angeles-theater-ovation-awards-asian-actor
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