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I’m fucking pumped for this Victoria secret fashion show! XD
WOC YOUTUBERS TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2018:
Meghal & Natasha - Meghal and Natasha are South(?) Asian twin sisters who are beauty influencers. They create beautiful editorial makeup looks + other looks as well.
Ivana Fischer - Ivana (better known as Iv Fischer) is a Black trans model who creates makeup tutorials, shares her lookbooks, and stories. She is a fearless, bold, and a fun, energetic YouTuber that I think everyone should look out for.
Taesface - Tae is a Black woman who posts makeup tutorials, female tips and offers advice. Her looks are beautiful and informative as well and she’s has such creative, beautiful looks.
Nabela Noor - Nabela is a body positive Bangladeshi influencer who is plus size as well! She creates content for brown Asian women and plus size women and her looks are beautiful and her confidence is amazing.
Brianna Nil - (Yeah I’m shamelessly promoting myself!) Brianna (known as Brandy Klark) is a plus size Cambodian beauty influencer and artist who makes content for brown Asian women as well as plus size Asian women. She promotes body positivity and the importance of seeing more content from other brown Asian women.Her channel varies in content, but primarily is makeup/outfit centric.
Asia Jackson - Asia is a Black + Filipino beauty influencer. She’s very “quirky”, creative, eccentric, funny, and confident as hell. She creates content pertaining to makeup, skincare, outfits + hair.
Kim Thai - Kim is a Vietnamese influencer who makes a lot of different content. Most of it pertains to makeup + traveling. She is body positive and creates content, such as makeup tutorials + mukbangs. She is very bubbly, talented and positive. She has already had a collab with OFRA Cosmetics.
Tuere Imani - Tuere is another Black beauty influencer who posts tutorials. She is very informative as she talks through her tutorials and explains each step as she goes. All of her looks are vibrant and creative and she is also someone to check out.
Kayla Shanice - Kayla is also another plus size Black beauty influencer who creates content for people who love makeup + also plus size women as she does haul reviews for brands who sell plus sized clothing. She’s very energetic and confidence and I love watching her!
Christin Koo - Christin is a Korean YouTuber who creates very thrifty vlogs and informative videos on where to save money, tutorials and makeup + clothes hauls. She’s very unapologetic, fearless, honest and she has a very fun energy to her. Also someone to watch in 2018.
I first saw Ren Hang’s work in an editorial for Hong Kong brand Yat Pit. My interest was piqued immediately; his pictures were funny, charismatic, daring. I recognized at once the provocation many others speak of, but I also saw the warmth that lay just underneath the surface. In a rush, I realized I felt seen in a way I hadn’t before - under the flash of his 35mm point-and-shoot Chinese bodies were reassembled and twisted in gloriously confusing ways. Equal parts tender and brash, it is a raw and rapturous eroticism that envelops us, and the weight of history is alleviated, even if for just a second. I was struck by the purity of his photographs. Each part of the body is treated equally with curiosity and humour; penises are no more unexpected than feet reaching into the frame, and no more than wild black hair suspended in mid-air.
There is bravery in being able to take our bodies apart; the language of suppression is a familiar one. As I perused Ren Hang’s photographs I realized they represented ideas of myself never afforded to me: Here the body shifts in ways it is not allowed to. Flesh presses together, unabashed. Limbs are no longer tethered to expectation. Vulnerability is without submission. Queer love and desire does not carry with it the pregnant weight of guilt and scandal. Ren Hang did not see his photos as political, but perhaps that is their greatest strength. They exist not as reactions to taboos and dehumanizing caricatures, but as an unquestionable celebration of what it means to be touched and fucked and played with. Even his recurring use of flowers and animals as props is refreshing since they do not drag with them the connotation of fetish and exoticism in their interactions with our bodies.
The visceral quality of Ren’s photographs recall the work of Chinese-Malaysian, Taiwan-based director Tsai Ming Liang, whose pensive films are a study of the body as a container in which water and desires are merely passing through. I cannot help but be reminded of Lee Kang-Sheng’s disembodied leg dangling from the hole in Yang Kuei Mei’s ceiling, the curious watermelon scenes in both Vive L’amour and The Wayward Cloud, the hesitant kiss in What Time is it There?. Tsai too takes the body apart and lends it new strength in its autonomy and fervent need for intimacy and sensory overload. There is power to be had in the act of wanting rather than being wanted, to know that the pursuit of our satisfaction is still worth something in this life.
Both Tsai and Ren are gay, and the homoerotic subtext of their respective works has been well noted, as well as regarded as controversial. Ren especially has faced the wrath of the Chinese government because of the sexually explicit nature of his photographs portraying same-gender relations. Homosexuality in an East Asian context is near synonymous with repression, and although Tsai and Ren both have peeled back the layers to reveal an existence that is still considered heavily taboo, Ren’s photographs are not crafted to comment on this repression, rather to reject it completely. Ultimately, the greatest similarity between the two is their intimate collaborations with friends and the absolute empathy they have for their subjects. The love and concern Tsai has for both Lee Kang Sheng and the characters he portrays in Tsai’s films mirrors the loose, intimate quality of Ren’s shoots with his friends. This mutual respect and trust between artist and subject gives their works undeniable force and sensitivity.
Check out this powerful piece by Charlotte @renxiaoyao
There’s so many great things about this:
Sasha Pivovarova in Atelier Versace for Vogue Italia, September 2007
Editorial: Couture Memoirs by Paolo Roversi
Editorial pieces I did for two separate articles at Eater !
Top: ‘Fighting Slave Labor in the Food Industry’
Bottom: ‘Everything You Need to Know About Scrapple’
Thanks AD Erin!
New beauty editorial in the spring issue of Chloe Magazine. Hair&Makeup by Natalie Ventola. Model Alice Ma with Next Models Canada. Photography by Alex Evans.
