Yet there is one aspect of sex that is rarely, if ever brought up in public, campus-wide dialogue - race. These events are widespread and fairly widely attended: Yale talks about sex. This quasi-movement has included workshops on consent and events like Sex Week, incorporating discourse on topics from body image to BDSM 101. For the past few years, campus has been astir with largely student-driven efforts to improve attitudes around sex. Grewal is on to something the rest of Yale isn’t. “Those histories are important because they are a way of understanding images that become very sedimented in our societies, in our ways of thinking,” Grewal said. And though warm, her tone was frank as she continued: we both understand quite well the ongoing effects of this myth. I was sitting cross-legged on a mattress on the floor of my attic apartment as she spoke to me over the phone about depictions of Asian sexuality in pop culture. That’s the view of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies professor Inderpal Grewal, who explained her understanding of historically-entrenched discrimination to me over the phone last week. “There’s a long history of exoticism: of seeing Asian women as eroticized, seeing them as passive and compliant.” Or maybe I should say, the fact that I’m Asian has never been so remarked-upon as it has been here - particularly in the context of my sex life.īut this story doesn’t really begin with me. I have never been more Asian than I am when here at Yale.
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