Kristina Wong Makes Subversive Fun Feminist Stuff
Need a break? A hero? A hot tip on something to watch? Forget tired tropes and tricky times (for an hour or so).
Remember that time Kristina Wong did an impromptu street performance piece to see how much weight she could gain as quickly as possible?
Or when she single-handedly created and sustained an entire romance with NBA basketballer Jeremy Lin? (Her basketball game placard: ‘Explode Linside Me!’)
How about that amusing anecdote about buying used-vegetable oil for her car in back alleys in her eco-warrior one-woman show?
The obstinate, five-foot-tall, hand-sewn vagina?
The Ugandan rap album? Maybe not.
Wong is an innovation machine; the examples above are a sample of her work. She called out the problematic fetishization of Asian women, grappled with the reality of mental health concerns among young Asian-American women, and tackled Trump's tweets head-on with her inimitable flair.
Years ago, I remember Wong shared in one of her regular updates that she was exhausted — she felt defeated trying to make it as a performer, creator, all around prop-sewing funny woman. She was tossing up whether to become a nurse and finally make her…
