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Podcast: Miss Understood with Rachel Uchitel
Episode: Fetishized: The Truth About Asian Stereotypes and Sexualization
Description: What happens when the way the world sees you isn’t who you really are?Kaila Yu has lived many lives in the public eye: as a singer in the Asian American rock band Nylon Pink, a model gracing magazines like Maxim and FHM, and a journalist writing for Rolling Stone and The New York Times. But through it all, she’s wrestled with one truth — as an Asian woman, she was often fetishized, reduced to a stereotype, and misunderstood.Now, in her debut memoir Fetishized: A Reckoning with Yellow Fever, Feminism, and Be...