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It's Friday, August 24th, 2018. It's the gist. I'm Stephanie Foo sitting in for Mike Pesca.

So here's a fun fact. I'm the first Asian woman to guest host the gist.

So I thought it would be appropriate this week to talk representation, specifically representation in film.

Specifically specifically representation in crazy rich Asians.

I've been talking in public about crazy rich Asians for a couple weeks now.

I wrote an essay in Vox about my experiencing the movie. I've even been on a couple of shows talking about it.

And yeah, maybe I'm saturating the market, but also I don't really care.

There are a lot of journalists and personalities who are the resident experts of things that they happen to have a lot of personal investment in.

Jewish writers get to comment on all things Jewish white writers from the heartland get to comment on heartland things.

Who knows when there will ever again be a big budget movie or pop culture reference that is set in the country where I was born? Malaysia.

It's never happened before and it might never happen again. So yeah, I'll milk that for all it's worth.

Anyway, since I've done it before, I won't go into my feelings about crazy rich Asians too deeply, but suffice it to say I cried throughout the entire movie.

From 10 minutes in from the second I saw the words,

Wow, so many Rachel Truzla on screen to the end where random woman yells,

Hello, quite a bit.

It was the first time I'd seen myself on screen and it was a tremendously validating and cathartic experience.

It taught me that my viewpoints, my history and my culture are valid both as the Southeast Asian and also as an Asian American, a chimera of the best of two cultures.

And I saw it all because of my good friend Kat Chow.

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