Body Politić

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別要我滿足你的幻想 [YELLOW FEVER].

HSUAN (HILARY) WAN, FASHION DESIGN & DEVELOPMENT, LCF, UAL.

語言是個雙面刃, 它既能幫助我們學習, 能 使人受傷, 也能使人感到害怕。在清朝末年 時期, 中國知識份子學習歐洲嘲笑弱小國家 的方式而自嘲中國為“東亞病夫”。而這病毒 式的形容詞也彷彿跟隨著亞洲人一起帶到 了國外。當某些白種男人形容自己的戀愛對 象時會說,“Oh, I got yellow fever (譯: 喔, 我 有黃種病。)而我, 則是從小就被告誡著, 要 眼睛放亮, 不要傻傻的被這些人騙了。但卻 沒被教導, 何謂正常的愛情觀, 單方面被動 的接受著面對帶有種族歧視的性別歧視。 為何一個疾病的詞彙會衍生成描述喜愛 亞洲女性的形容詞?黃種病, 英文原文為 Yellow Fever, 是一種急性病毒病。但是這個 50 // BODY POLITIĆ.

醫療詞彙在現代社會中卻誕生出了另一層 含意。現常見用法為形容部分白種男人被 亞洲(或亞裔)女人所吸引。從一次鴉片戰爭 之後, 歐美國家開啟了對於東瀛國家的文化 採伐。而吸引他們的文化之一便是日本的藝 妓。在不同的主流媒體烘托下, 白種男性創 造出了許多針對統一物化亞洲女性的作品。 而其中最有名的就數賈科莫·普契尼的” 蝴蝶夫人”。這部遠近馳名的歌劇主要描 寫一個日本藝妓苦守自己對於一位美國 軍官的愛戀。而主角蝴蝶夫人的角色描述 是一個安靜, 羞澀, 忍讓的女人, 放大了刻 板印象。這樣子的角色設定像是讓人像中 毒的病一樣的沈淪。就此黃種病成為了白


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The Story of Jezebel: On the Revolutionary Act of Black Womxn's Sexual Liberation by Thokozani Mbwana

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Featured Creative: Liberty Antonia Sadler

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pages 156-163

An interview with: Shannon Bono

2min
pages 154-155

Lost Consciousness by Ken Nwadiogbu

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pages 144-153

Shower by Prudence Flint

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pages 138-141

An Interview with: Rachel Isabel Mukendi

4min
pages 136-137

An interview with: Thokozani Mbwana

5min
pages 132-135

And I Belong and We Belong by Rene Matich

1min
pages 128-131

Personhood by Unimuke J Agada

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pages 122-127

An interview with: Yoko Grindel

2min
pages 120-121

Acid Attach Series by Sanya Torkmorad-Jozavi

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pages 117-119

An Interview with: Rene Matich

3min
pages 114-116

If I Were White, I Would Capture the World by Rachel Isabel Mukendi

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pages 108-113

Children of Venus by Uzma Chowdhury (They/Them)

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pages 106-107

An Interview with: Mercedes Lewis

3min
pages 104-105

Inter-African Migration and Albinism in Black Bodies by Anne-Mare Akussah

3min
pages 96-103

We a Caribbean Family by Jawara Alleyne

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pages 88-95

Kader Attia: Omnipresent Reparation by Helene Selam Kleih

1min
pages 84-87

Adire Series by Sola Olulode

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pages 78-83

The Black Flaneur by Madinah Farhannah Thompson

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pages 74-77

Transmission/Transition. by Hamed Maiye

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pages 68-73

01WITNESS? by Christopher Lutterodt-Quarcoo

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pages 66-67

On Allowance of the Black Sky Letting Light Into Its Vastness by Kaiisaiah Jamal

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Sankofa by Ethel-Ruth Tame

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pages 62-63

Primevera.

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pages 56-61

An interview with: Unimuke Jagada.

3min
pages 54-56

Yellow Fever.

4min
pages 50-53

Project/ed: Cut Your Cloth According to Your Coat.

1min
pages 46-49

Nostalgic Black

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pages 39, 45

Where are you 'really' from?

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pages 40, 44

Beautiful Uprising.

2min
pages 36-43

Inviting Silence: An Essay on the Body

6min
pages 28, 32-35

Guardian Angel by Matt Sesow

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pages 24-31

Key Data

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pages 19-23

Peer Review: Annabel Crowley

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pages 11, 16-18

Peer Review: A Note from Kirsten Hemmy

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A Note from the Lead

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pages 8-10

Body Politic

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