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The Viral Earrings Calling Out Men Who Fetishize Asian Women - Refinery29

With firecracker earrings, monolid-accentuating eyepieces, and silver grillz, Ada Chen, an artist, jewelry maker, and Pratt Institute graduate, used her thesis collection, titled Made in Chinese America, to explore her identity as a Chinese American woman. "The collection was initially supposed to represent the most intimate aspects of my culture, but it became very politically charged in its development," Chen tells Refinery29. "The politics and culture complemented each other very well."