Performing Power with Asian-American Dommes

Monday, 15 January 2024 - 8:30am to 9:00am

image of Chinese-American artist Lena Chen wearing a white wig and her feet suspended in the air. She is surrounded by purple draped material and a backdrop of disney princesses.

On this episode of Women on the Line we speak with Lena Chen, a Chinese-American artist and scholar currently pursuing PhD in performance studies at UC Berkeley and her creative practice and academic work looks at Asian womanhood in the diaspora. Today we chat about her draft paper, ‘Performing Power: Asian American Resistance through BDSM’ and the online game ‘Only Bans’ she created to address surveillance of sex workers online.

Content warning that we do speak about Asian fetishization and racism.

Featured song on this episode is 'Finally' by M.I.A.

Women on the Line

Monday 8:30am to 9:00am

A national feminist current affairs program for community radio. A gender analysis of contemporary issues, as well as in-depth analysis by a range of women and gender diverse people around Australia and internationally. Distributed nationally on the Community Radio Network (CRN).

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Cleis Hart, Kannagi Bhatt, Phuong Tran, Xen Nhà & Scheherazade Bloul.

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