Faculty of Design
Illustration
Beige Blum
Wish You Weren't Here
Illustration
2021
Digital (for Risograph production)
This piece connects the imagery of postcards and sex tourism. It discusses how ideas of sex tourism affect Asian women ie. men thinking they have the right to touch Asian women when travelling abroad, seeing Asian women as being inherently linked to sex work and how that can lead to abuse and violence, etc.
Work by
Beige Blum aka. icedtaho
Illustration
“Not your Waifu questions the grounds of race fetishization, particularly the fetishization of Asian women, by comparing instances of fetishization to particular objects which exemplify and help...” [More]