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[oyceter]

I have been very bad about posting about race and anti-racism lately, and even worse with following discussions online.

But basically, my response would be what Deepa says. Yes and yes and yes. And that is precisely why I've found so much comfort in immersing myself in Asian mainstream pop culture, even though that pop culture has a lot that could be changed. It is just so good to find something that's focused on POC, to have other narratives and other stories, to have an entirely different default to draw upon.

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[yeloson.livejournal.com]

immersing myself in Asian mainstream pop culture

It makes me sad, cause while I long for the idea, there's not really a lot of options to immerse into asian american, or, more for me personally, multi-cultural American POC culture.

[oyceter]

Gah, I know! And there is a big difference between pop culture made where the POC group is the majority as opposed the the minority.

[lady-ganesh.livejournal.com]

There is. Once when I did a meme about PoC icons, it was interesting to separate out (though I didn't count) how many 'white' icons I had vs. 'majority culture' icons.