Softboys and Mixed Race Asian Masculinity Online: The TikToks of Jiyayjt.
This paper examines the TikToks of mixed race Japanese Australian content producer Jiyayjt. Jiyayjt provides insights into growing up as a mixed race boy in Australian and Japanese society, and in an interracial family. His interest in Japanese and broadly Asian popular culture appears a significant...
| Publicado en: | Australian Feminist Studies Vol. 39; no. 119/120; pp. 118 - 142 |
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