Giboom Park > Quotes

“There is no such things as a 'harmless' racial preference. Sexual racism is a living, breathing creature amidst our society today.”
― Giboom Park, Not Your Yellow Fantasy: Deconstructing the Legacy of Asian Fetishization

“Stereotypes are boxes that conflict you. Your identity and what make up your identity are fluid, so the conflicting nature of a stereotype's definition and your identity strain your mental health. Whereas a human being can have multiple changes in their identity and what they define as their identity, stereotypes tend to display an individual as static, non-changing being.”
― Giboom Park, Not Your Yellow Fantasy: Deconstructing the Legacy of Asian Fetishization

“Those words they throw at you and which stick onto you -- I know they hurt. But remember, you are beautiful for who you are. Not for your ethnicity or your relationship to others. Don't play into a part society creates for you or feel as if you need to be a certain way to be loved and accepted. You are not their object, their doll, or their magical dream. You are not their yellow fantasy.”
― Giboom Park, Not Your Yellow Fantasy: Deconstructing the Legacy of Asian Fetishization

“To fetishize, reject, and emasculate individuals based on their race is to objectify and dehumanise them, transforming them into nothing but objects meant to appease the desires of the user.”
― Giboom Park, Not Your Yellow Fantasy: Deconstructing the Legacy of Asian Fetishization