
halfasiaspring- recent meetup events
I saw a lot of snark on the fake ABG tech meetup but haven’t seen anyone start the wasian gatherings in SF and NYC.
While it’s great that they have been able to be celebrated, I watched a TikTok from Mad Tsai, an Asian Latino artist, who discussed why it leaves a weird taste
Why is it called “half Asia” when only half Asian and half white people are being celebrated? Why couldn’t other half Asians be highlighted?
The event heavily talked about being half Asian from what I heard so it was very odd to highlight Asianess but treat whiteness like a default (btw treating whiteness as ‘the default’ DOES encourage white supremacy & orientalism). In addition, to exclude other mixed Asian groups and focus only on wasian phenotypes.
Obligatory “I have a wasian partner and wasian family members” so I don’t get anti-mixed race accusations (funny how small brained people love to jump to this accusation). Oh and OS commenters can gtfo too.