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This is the first discourse I'm reading upon waking up?? I'm going back to sleep https://twitter.com/AskAKorean/status/1381390534862893057
Love to know we'll always be stuck between being accused of assimilating/being white washed or being accused of feeding into white ppl 's Orientalist fantasies no matter what we do
This doesn't support your claim that Asian Americans want to dress in our traditional clothes bc of Orientalism. It just means there isn't good access to high quality hanbok in DC https://twitter.com/AskAKorean/status/1381394682593345539?s=19
And at this point you're just making vast generalizations https://twitter.com/AskAKorean/status/1381397091918962689?s=19
I really hate this thread. I've wanted to wear 旗袍 for years because I felt so disconnected from my Chineseness and I was struggling with my gender expression when I was in college. I wanted to look like MY MOM. Not a white man's fantasy.
I'm also literally most well known in academia for writing about Asian drag queens wearing Asian costumes 
and my argument is much more complicated than "they're self-orientalizing."
and my argument is much more complicated than "they're self-orientalizing."
