Asians Wear Clothes on the Internet
Minh-Ha T. Pham, Thuy Linh Tu, and Arabelle Sicardi
Asians Wear Clothes on the Internet

Copresented by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU and Asian American Writers’ Workshop

Rumi Neely. Susie Bubble. BryanBoy. Asian personal superbloggers dominate the Internet. In Asians Wear Clothes on the Internet: Race, Gender, and the Work of Personal Style Blogging (Duke University Press, 2015 ), Minh-Ha T. Pham examines the phenomenal rise of elite Asian diasporic bloggers who have made a career of posting photographs of themselves wearing clothes on the Internet. NYU Associate Professor Thuy Linh Tu (The Beautiful Generation: Asian Americans and the Cultural Economy of Fashion) and beauty and fashion politics blogger Arabelle Sicardi (Teen Vogue and ROOKIE, among many outlets) join Pham in a discussion on “Asian taste,” racialized eliteness, and the digital fashion economy.

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Note: AAWW is excited to share space with you, alongside Minh-ha T. Pham, Thuy Linh Tu, and Arabelle Sicardi in discussing “Asians Wear Clothes on the Internet.” Just a couple of things: We have reached our capacity for the event. For those of you who have already RSVP’d, we want to let you know that this does not guarantee you a seat. First come, first serve! See you there!

Asians Wear Clothes on the Internet

Minh-Ha T. Pham, Thuy Linh Tu, and Arabelle Sicardi
Thursday, February 11, 2016
7:00 PM
$0.00
Asian American Writers’ Workshop
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