Siddique, Sophia
Boba binds you and me: an exploration of boba, Asian American identity, and community
Daydreams
Feeling Institutional Whiteness
My queer body in Horiz0n
Nothing Ever Changes, the System Always Wins: Analyzing 21st Century Colorism and its Discourse in Electronic Media
Nothing Ever Changes, the System Always Wins: Analyzing 21st Century Colorism and its Discourse in Electronic Media
Nothing Ever Changes, the System Always Wins: Analyzing 21st Century Colorism and its Discourse in Electronic Media
Somewhere in Between and Nowhere to Be Seen: A Look into the Asian American Transracial Adoptee Experience through Educational Programming
Throughout the 1990s-2000s, the number of international adoptions into the United States increased drastically, reaching a little over 20,000 international adoptions in 2002 with 25% being from China and 9% from South Korea (PRB, 2003). As these adoptees begin to...
Suffering in silence: the politics of shaping cultural memory in the context of narratives around Korean "comfort women" in South Korea
In <em>Tangled Memories</em>: <em>The Vietnam War, the Aids Epidemic, and the Politics of Remembering, </em>Marita Sturken discusses the shaping of cultural memory in the U.S. in the context of the Vietnam War and the AIDS epidemic. She writes that...
Techno-Orientalism in contemporary Hollywood cinema
Within the last few decades, cyberpunk has burgeoned in various fields of art, literature, and cinema. "Techno-Orientalism," the depiction of the "orient" in a digitalized environment, has been a major theme in cyberpunk. In works like Neal Stephenson's <em>Snow Crash </em>...
The "touch" versus the "see": tactility as a challenge against digital media in "Subway Therapy"
The thesis explores how the tactile aspect of "Subway Therapy," a project in which people could write messages on sticky notes after the 2016 Presidential Election and post them on the subway walls in New York City, fosters an alternative...