Faculty of Design

Illustration

Beige Blum

Take What You Need

Illustration
2021
Digital (for Risograph production)
Paperchain dolls in connection to the idea that all Asians are seen as interchangeable by some fetishizers. In this case, we’re not viewed as individuals, we are seen as lacking any real identity to the fetishizers besides being Asian. They completely ignore different ethnicities, and more importantly, they ignore that these women are their own people with value and their own lived experiences. The fetishizers take interest in them solely because they're Asian regardless of their actual ethnic background because they just wanna date an Asian and any will do.

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Beige Blum aka. icedtaho

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“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]