AAPI Activism shuts down “Kimono Wednesdays” at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts.
Stand Against Yellowface @ the MFA:
- List of protest organizers’ Demands and Charges
- FAQs of the Protest
- Stand Against Yellowface @ the MFA Tumblr
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White model posing with kimono and fan, mimicking Monet's orientalism, as a study. #mfaboston #whitesupremacyskills http://t.co/xu6IITKItO—
Amber Ying (@diabola) July 01, 2015
HEADLINES
HuffPost: Museum’s ‘Kimono Wednesdays’ Cancelled After Claims Of Racism
LA Times: Boston art museum cancels kimono event after claims of racism
Japan Times: Cries of racism prompt Boston art museum to cancel ‘Kimono Wednesdays’
BACKGROUND
BigRedAndShiny: Demonstrators Protest Cultural Appropriation in MFA Galleries
Our Post on Yellowface at AAMSF (02/24/15): Yellowface is Such a Drag
Of course, what would an AAPI protest be without a counterprotest on behalf of honorary white status:
Just a reminder that Orientalism is indeed integral to white supremacist structural racism (and no need to call it “neo” Orientalism, because after centuries of investment in this system of “knowledge,” it is liberal fantasy to believe it ever went away—case in point: the genealogy of East Asian studies at major US universities, aka “American Orientalism“).
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