Ornament becomes—is—flesh for Asian American female personhood. Commodification and fetishization, the dominant critical paradigms we have for understanding representations of racialized femininity, simply do not ask the harder question of what constitutes being at the interface of ontology and objectness. We need to find new ways to think about the entanglement of organic corporeality and aesthetic abstraction exemplified by yellow womanhood. How do we begin to think about racialized bodies that remain insistently synthetic and artificial? What about bodies not undone by objectness but
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