![Video thumbnail: What I Hear When You Say Model Minority]()
Explore the use of this term “Model Minority” to describe Asian American communities.
Model Minority
Explore how words can both unite and divide based on our own perspective and experiences.
What I Hear When You Say is a video series that explores how words can both unite and divide us depending on our own perspective, experience, and interpretation. Each episode covers a different phrase or term that challenges what we think we know about race, class, gender, and identity.
What I Hear When You Say is a video series that explores how words can both unite and divide us depending on our own perspective, experience, and interpretation. Each episode covers a different phrase or term that challenges what we think we know about race, class, gender, and identity.
![What Are You?]()
What’s the intent behind a simple question like, “What are you?”
What Are You?
![Model Minority]()
Explore the use of this term “Model Minority” to describe Asian American communities.
Model Minority
![Code Words]()
Examine the current function and long history of American’s use of “code words”.
Code Words
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Behind the Scenes | Photo Gallery
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Designer Alyasha Owerka-Moore holds up a shirt, advocating for knowledge of history as a way to prevent cultural appropriation.
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Influential agender social media star Tyler Ford tries on a scarf in a local boutique. Tyler believes identity is an evolving journey.
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Artist Bayete Ross Smith’s son reflects on his father’s “Our Kind of People” project. Smith’s work often deals with perception and identity.
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A young woman holds a sign of a question, depicting a microaggression, that she has experienced in her life. Artist Kiyun Kim’s photo series on microaggressions introduced the concept to many.
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Journalist Soledad O’Brien highlights a question that is often asked of people whose race is difficult to identify by looks alone.
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Comic Jordan Temple believes you can tell the quality of services and safety in a neighborhood by how the produce looks.
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Comic Hari Kondabolu prepares for his video shoot about “Code Words.”
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Kristen Korvette, founder of Slutist, on location at her Festival which celebrates sex-positive feminist ideals.
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Director of Photography Chris Lytwyn prepares to shoot comedian Phoebe Robinson, author of You Can't Touch My Hair: And Other Things I Still Have to Explain.
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Director of Photography Chris Lytwyn and Director Owen Cooper with a gender activist, writer, speaker, and media personality Tyler Ford before their interview.
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The Crew of “What I Hear When You Say” on a shoot with a gender activist, writer, speaker, and media personality Tyler Ford who looks at a display of golden-era Hollywood icons of femininity.
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Behind the scenes with feminist scholar, writer, and activist Moya Bailey
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Actor Peter Wu works with a green screen for the “silhouette” animation effect used throughout the series.
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Director of photography Chris Lytwyn selects the specific glass filters used in the series “What I Hear When You Say” with Stan Wallace of The Filter Gallery Inc.
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Minnie Lee talks about the often ignored, yet consistent, history of Asian American activism in the U.S.
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Professor of Counseling Psychology at Columbia University, Derald Wing Sue, prepares to break down the meaning of the word “microaggression.”
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Clockwise from top: Greg Poole, Jordan Temple, Shaheen Nazerali, Ursula Liang, Israel Nava, Chris Lytwyn, Owen Cooper as they prepare for a shoot.
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