Youth Takeover: Asian American Youth Push Back on Asian Hate with Art and Activism

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🗓️ 28 April 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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For years, Asian Americans have largely been overlooked when it comes to representation in the media. This has begun to change some recently following the success of “Crazy Rich Asians.” There have been more box office hits centering Asian American characters and stories, like “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” “Turning Red” and Marvel’s “Shang-Chi.” Still, a recent survey found that, “Americans struggle to name prominent Asian Americans, despite several being in the news this year.” Some Asian American youth activists are recognizing the power of media images and art to influence change and using it to push back on Asian stereotypes and hate, as anti-Asian hate crimes increased by 339 percent in 2021. In this student-produced segment, as part of KQED’s Youth Takeover week, we’ll talk with Asian American youth artists and activists about the importance of Asian representation in media and the arts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:59.2	From KQED in San Francisco, I'm Alexis Madrigal.
1:14.0	Well, you just may have heard that Elon Musk is buying Twitter, which has sent the whole media world flame.
1:21.2	But Twitter is more than a global social media service.
1:24.5	It's also a deeply San Francisco company, headquartered right in the center
1:29.2	of the city. Thousands of employees past and present live here. So what's the big Elon news
1:34.9	mean for them and our metropole? And then we've got another youth takeover show, a panel of young
1:40.3	women working to stop anti-Asian hate. That's all next. Welcome to Forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal. Today we're talking about what Elon Musk's deal to buy Twitter means for the Bay Area and all those Twitter employees here. I have to tell you, I actually know I should have processed this news. I've been writing about Twitter and Elon Musk for 15 years.
2:18.6	And, man, my main impulse is that we need to talk about this. There are many tech companies
2:25.5	here in the Bay Area. The greatest density of them, though, are in the Mid-Peninsula down in the
2:30.5	South Bay. Twitter is arguably the most San Francisco tech company, and now it's owned by a guy
2:37.0	who absconded to Texas, at least in part because he doesn't like San Francisco-ness.
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