Asian American Awareness Week: Female Sexuality Panel
Tonight, I was a panelist at an event for Asian American Awareness Week at Harvard University. I wrote up a dispatch on The Chicktionary recounting some of the topics of discussion:
“I attributed the image of the meek, submissive Asian woman to the history of Western colonization and occupation in the East, where forced and “voluntary” sex trade was rampant. Since the majority of encounters were transactional, women occupied subservient roles. Prostitution aside, interactions between Asian women and male foreigners nonetheless tended to be inherently unequal due to the economic privilege of the latter group.“
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Some of the topics we discussed, from familial expectations to stereotypes and fetishes, will hopefully be addressed in greater detail when I’m a panelist at Friday’s Interracial Dating Discussion, which takes place at 4:30pm in Lowell House’s Junior Common Room. It’s a topic to which I’ve devoted plenty of ink, so I welcome the opportunity to hold another audience hostage while I ramble away.
