“To J.K. Rowling, From Cho Chang”
[Caption: a set of eight gifs where Rachel Rostad, the author of the poem, is speaking on a microphone. She is frowning, indignant, maybe angry.
“Ms. Rowling, I know you’re just the latest participant in a long tradition of turning Asian women into a tragic fetish. Madame Butterfly. Japanese woman falls in love with a white soldier, is abandoned, kills herself. Miss Saigon. Vietnamese woman falls in love with a white soldier, is abandoned, kills herself. Memoirs Of A Geisha. Lucy Liu in leather. Schoolgirl porn.”
At this, she shrugs; “Let me fulfill your diversity quota. Just one more brown girl mourning her white hero. No wonder Harry Potter’s got yellow fever.” She places her hands in front of her face, fakes a smile; “We giggle behind small hands and ‘no speak Engrish.’”
Then, she extends her arms out, towards the audience, smile dropping; “What else could a man see in me? What else could I be but what you made me?” Arms dropping, she says, “Subordinate. Submissive. Subplot.”]
(c) Redefining Body Image – Read entire story here.