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    施洗 (To Baptize)
    Baptism robes: dad’s, mom’s, mine Washing basins: Dr. Pepper, red wine, English tea Altar: Evidence Bibles, evangelical tracts, missionary pamphlets, burnt hell money and incense, candles, food offerings, dolls for Chinese adoptees, grandpa’s film rolls / drumsticks / fan, grandma’s rice farmer hat, mom’s cowboy boots, chalice, mom’s clay kids, pregnancy tests, purity jewelry Handmade pillows and handmade tablecloth with protective plastic covering Diffuser: sandalwood, myrrh, jasmine
    Table: 60'' x 102''
    30 Minutes

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    church, informed, thesis, question, capitalism, white, abortion, wrote, influence, texas, people, altar, houston, vietnamese, grew, class, part, history, community, asian american
    “My other major is history, and I study the issues of racial capitalism in the US. And so I think all of this has clearly been informed by this upbringing. That's kind of why I wanted to explore it.”
    “I also work at the Asian American Cultural Center. I joke that I'm like full-time Asian haha. I think that that community definitely really influences a lot of my work, too, because we're constantly having conversations about the history of the current state, and what Asian America as a political identity, rather than like, as a cultural identity really means.”
    “I have a lot of friends in the ethnicity, race and migration major. A lot of that really informs the concepts behind why I make, I also have friends who are interested in similar issues of racial capitalism. So I think that, definitely, they influenced a lot of my work.”
    “I am taking a class with Professor Elizabeth Hinton. She writes a lot about how the mass incarceration state has come to be, how its origins were in the war on poverty, ironically. And so I think that she kind of influences my work.”
    “There's lots of really cool Asian American authors who I think think about things like this. There’s someone named Iyko Day, who's actually coming to Yale next week which is really exciting. She wrote a book called ‘Alien Capital’ about like Asian American labor, and that sort of cuff relationship with settler colonialism, and our positionality as, our tenuous, I guess, relationship to the indigenous peoples and lands and nations of what is known as the United States of Canada.”
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    Sunnie Liu
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    施洗 (To Baptize)
    Baptism robes: dad’s, mom’s, mine Washing basins: Dr. Pepper, red wine, English tea Altar: Evidence Bibles, evangelical tracts, missionary pamphlets, burnt hell money and incense, candles, food offerings, dolls for Chinese adoptees, grandpa’s film rolls / drumsticks / fan, grandma’s rice farmer hat, mom’s cowboy boots, chalice, mom’s clay kids, pregnancy tests, purity jewelry Handmade pillows and handmade tablecloth with protective plastic covering Diffuser: sandalwood, myrrh, jasmine
    Table: 60'' x 102''
    30 Minutes

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    Student