Feeling Asian Together: Coping with #COVIDRacism on Subtle Asian Traits
Since the onset of COVID-19, incidents of racism and xenophobia have been occurring globally, especially toward people of East Asian appearance and descent. In response, this article investigates how an online Asian community has utilized social media to engage in cathartic expressions, mutual care,...
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| description | Since the onset of COVID-19, incidents of racism and xenophobia have been occurring globally, especially toward people of East Asian appearance and descent. In response, this article investigates how an online Asian community has utilized social media to engage in cathartic expressions, mutual care, and discursive activism amid the rise of anti-Asian racism and xenophobia during COVID-19. Specifically, we focus on the 1.7-million-strong Facebook group “Subtle Asian Traits” (SAT). Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, the 1,200 new posts it publishes daily have swiftly pivoted to the everyday lived experiences of (diaspora) East Asians around the world. In this article, we reflect on our experiences as East Asian diaspora members on SAT and share our observations of meaning-making, identity-making, and community-making as East Asians collectively coping with COVID-19 aggression between January and May 2020. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-804502021-01-13T03:09:37Z Feeling Asian Together: Coping with #COVIDRacism on Subtle Asian Traits Abidin, Crystal Zeng, Jing Since the onset of COVID-19, incidents of racism and xenophobia have been occurring globally, especially toward people of East Asian appearance and descent. In response, this article investigates how an online Asian community has utilized social media to engage in cathartic expressions, mutual care, and discursive activism amid the rise of anti-Asian racism and xenophobia during COVID-19. Specifically, we focus on the 1.7-million-strong Facebook group “Subtle Asian Traits” (SAT). Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, the 1,200 new posts it publishes daily have swiftly pivoted to the everyday lived experiences of (diaspora) East Asians around the world. In this article, we reflect on our experiences as East Asian diaspora members on SAT and share our observations of meaning-making, identity-making, and community-making as East Asians collectively coping with COVID-19 aggression between January and May 2020. 2020 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/80450 10.1177/2056305120948223 http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DE190100789 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ unknown |
| spellingShingle | Abidin, Crystal Zeng, Jing Feeling Asian Together: Coping with #COVIDRacism on Subtle Asian Traits |
| title | Feeling Asian Together: Coping with #COVIDRacism on Subtle Asian Traits |
| title_full | Feeling Asian Together: Coping with #COVIDRacism on Subtle Asian Traits |
| title_fullStr | Feeling Asian Together: Coping with #COVIDRacism on Subtle Asian Traits |
| title_full_unstemmed | Feeling Asian Together: Coping with #COVIDRacism on Subtle Asian Traits |
| title_short | Feeling Asian Together: Coping with #COVIDRacism on Subtle Asian Traits |
| title_sort | feeling asian together: coping with #covidracism on subtle asian traits |
| url | http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DE190100789 http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/80450 |