It’s Spring in Southern Hemisphere! Are you doing Spring Cleaning where you declutter the shits that you’ve accumulated in your place? This week, we critic Netflix’s Home Edit, and discuss our relationship with the idea of the show which enforces women into the traditional and regressive work of ‘home duties’.

Critics Have These Big Problems With 'The Home Edit' 

‘Get Organized With The Home Edit’ Makes Excess a Virtue: TV Review 

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Book: The Good Girl Of Chinatown - Jenevieve Chang  

Podcast Shout Out: Good Gay (Mandarin Podcast)  

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We were planning for a short bonus episode, but it end up with us chatting more and more about the whole drama. Go and check out TOKYO GiRL on Amazon Prime!

Amazon Prime - Tokyo Girl 

Amazon Prime - Jack Ryan  

Netflix - Indian Matchmaking  

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This week, we dive into a rather taboo-ish topic for ya’ll out there. We want to discuss the sexual empowerment around our society, what is defined as sexual empowerment for us, and how society’s image around women is damaging how we identify ourselves sexually. We are pleased to have our first collaboration with Soy&Spice with a competition to win some lovely prizes and exclusive discount code to shop at Soy&Spice 

The Difference Between Feeling Sexually Empowered & Seeking Validation — And Why It Matters  

“If you’re not that as an Asian woman, you’re not shit as an Asian woman.”: (re)negotiating racial and gender identities 

That's patriarchy: how female sexual liberation led to male sexual entitlement 

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Anticipating Father’s Day this upcoming Sunday, we sat down to chat about the ways gender constructions are amplified during these ‘festive’ commercial events. Ever notice the colour pink and red all over the shops around May? Well, for September, we’re lead to believe that all fathers (therefore, men) only like dark colours; blue, black or grey.

Hm, interesting. And what about indications of what a father (and therefore, a man) is interested in reading? Helen looked at the top 24 book recommendations for dads advertised by bookstores and found that only three books were written by women. What? Men don’t read female authors? NO! Can that be?

And why were all the books on the ‘Dad’s wish list’ books about male sportsmen, entertainers, politicians, wine, science, technology? And why were all the novel recommendations spy, crime, thriller, forensic, military?

Fathers (and therefore, men) don’t like flowers? Who says?

Finally, Helen noticed the bias schools have committed by having Mother’s Day Morning Teas (held at 11am) and Father’s Day Breakfast (held at 8am) because what, only fathers (and therefore, men) have to race to work?

Hm. Very bias forms of discrimination, don’t you think?

Culture Consumption:

Movie: Death Becomes Her (dir. Robert Zemeckis, 1992)
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That scene Jessie talks about where Goldie Hawn turns into a huge, huge person.

Hungry Ghosts (SBS, 2020)
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The Great Pretenders (Netflix)
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Articles:

From Vietnam To Taiwan, Why Asian Fathers Are Caring More For Their Children (Forbes, June 15, 2017)

The perception of Asian dads and masculinity (Chicago Tribune, June 10, 2016)

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This week, we discuss the action and feeling of SHAME, what's your memory of feeling ashamed as a child? And the multiple layers around feeling shame as an Asian. 

Jessie's appearance on Equality Talks - Taking Action on Sexual Harassment (12 August 2020)  

Anti-binge drinking ad shaming girls and women who drink | 2000
The ‘Pinky Ad” - Anti-speeding campaign shaming men who speed on the road | The Road, Traffic Authority, 2014

Books

In Defence of Shame | Tanveer Ahmed 

Asian Shame and Addiction - Suffering in Silence | Sam Louie

Articles

Asian Shame | Sam Louie
On Covidiots, cancel culture and shame’s potential for healing | The Australian, August 25, 2020
Why shame is good | VOX, Joseph Burgo, April 18, 2019

Brene Brown | 12 categories of shame

Replying My Shame 

Shout Out

Happiness Habit | Workshops  

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How should BIPOC represented in a teen-movie in the 2020? This week we critic the film WORK IT, discuss the continuation of stereotyping BIPOC and white protagonist taking advantage of those characters. 

Have you experienced BENEVOLENT SEXISM? How do you deal with it? 

Work It 

Benevolent sexism: a feminist comic explains how it holds women back 

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What's your understanding of cultural appropriation? Is it a good thing? Is it taking up further space by the people with power or is it an ambassadorship? 

The Cultural Appropriation of Food  

The Feminist Guide to Being a Foodie Without Being Culturally Appropriative 

A White Restaurateur Advertised ‘Clean’ Chinese Food. Chinese-Americans Had Something to Say About It. 

Uncle Roger DISGUSTED by this Egg Fried Rice Video (BBC Food) 

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What more could you do as a feminist besides doing a hashtag? Is a hashtag simply enough? We discuss the controversy around #challengeaccepted, and our response to the hashtag. 

Books 

Asymmetry - Lisa Halliday  

Fleishman is in Trouble - Taffy Brodesser-Akner 

Articles 

The complicated origin of Instagram’s #ChallengeAccepted 

‘Challenge Accepted’: Why Women Are Posting Black-and-White Selfies 

Challenge accepted: Turkish feminists spell out real meaning of hashtag 

For those who are interested in the Taiwanese drama: 

U Motherbaker 我的婆婆怎麼那麼可愛 

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Cheese company COON is finally renaming/rebranding (?) the so-call iconic (uniconic) name, but why has it taken so long? This week we discuss how society is perfunctory with tackling racism, and the exhaustion we face in explaining the history of racism. 

Film: GF*BF  

Film: Taipei Exchange 

Film: Where’d you go Bernadette?  

Film: The King of Staten Island 

Book: Dark Emu | Bruce Pascoe  

The Coon Caricature (Ferris State University 

Coon Cheese name to be retired (SMH, July 24,2020  

The end to Coon cheese has surprised the owner of Wodonga's Coons Dairy who says she does not find her surname "racist at all" (Farm Online, July 28, 2020 ) 

Black Lives Matter and the trap of performative activism 

WEF | 4 ways to be an ally in the fight against racism 

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Should women still feel shame for not conforming to social and familial expectation? Why do Asian culture (conservative/traditional cultures) blame women of choosing a partner according their own metrics? 

This week, we talk about how Leftover Women has been used as a term to shame women who choose not to get married. 

Garth Greenwell  

Metalhead Politicas Podcast  

Only Yesterday (Film)  

Father to Son (Film)  

Between tradition and modernity: "Leftover" Women in Shanghai  

Where Being A Single Women Is Not Ok 

Gender, media, and myth-making: constructing China's leftover women 

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