Joshua is obsessed with race, and acutely critical of mainstream representations of Asians, which he dubs "orientalist masturbatory fantasy figures".
At that time you were likely one of the first mainstream representations of transgender people in the media.
The show also never falls into the stereotypes of campy gay humor that plague most mainstream representations.
The physical experiences of pregnancy, birth and motherhood are far from the pristine, ethereal events that some mainstream representations would suggest.
Mainstream representations of black men and in turn, their masculinity tend to oscillate from one extreme to the other: criminal, hyper-sexual, reviled, or idolized.
Mainstream representations of black men – and in turn, their masculinity – tend to oscillate from one extreme to the other: criminal, hyper-sexual, reviled or idolised.
The Huffington Post: In terms of James and Ashlee's stories, how would you say that they differ from mainstream representations of transgender people in the media and how are they framed by the rural setting that they've grown up in?
Duke, who created the NAACP Award-nominated documentary Dark Girls, which inspired the companion book, knows that colorism is a deeply entrenched issue part of the larger conversation about racism and mainstream representations of idealized beauty standards.
