"Fetishized": A Reckoning/Reawakening (with Kaila Yu)

About this episode

Kaila Yu discusses her memoir-in-essays 'Fetishized' and its analysis of Asian American experiences and representation.

Kaila Yu's Fetishized: A Reckoning With Yellow Fever, Feminism, and Beauty is written as memoir-in-essays that serves as media and cultural analysis. We discussed how she situated her personal experiences as part of her research process, analyzing the broader Asian American landscape and history, revisiting her own media, the import scene, and representation.

People in this episode

Host: Anna Nguyen

Guest: Kaila Yu

Topics covered

• memoir
• cultural analysis
• Asian American representation
• feminism
• media studies

Keywords

• Kaila Yu
• Fetishized
• Asian American
• feminism
• media analysis
• memoir
• cultural critique

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Fetishized: A Reckoning With Yellow Fever, Feminism, and Beauty

Places: Asian American

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