the singer Thérèse dismantles racist clichés

The singer Thérèse is releasing her new clip "Chinese?" This Friday, February 12, 2021, a strong and committed song for the artist who wants ordinary racism towards Asian communities to end.

Thérèse is one of those emerging female artists on the French scene to follow very closely. His universe is very marked and unlike any other. In addition, Thérèse is also an activist. Feminist and anti-racist, she does not hesitate to raise awareness through her music and her art. The singer, whose EP release is scheduled for March 12, 2021, gave us an interview. A sweet and benevolent moment which greatly serves these causes which are close to his heart.

"Chinese?" : an anti-racist clip

With the clip "Chinese?" Thérèse imposes her style, but, above all, speaks about an important subject that concerns her: "Chinese, Chen Li, Massage, Polite, Submissive in bed, You call me Katsuni, Chinese, Money, Tiger Woman, Gucci, Lucy Liu …" The singer, ultra committed, unzips all the prejudices towards Asian communities. At a time when the coronavirus crisis has only worsened anti-Asian racism, this hyper-stylized and pop song and clip is just right. For Thérèse, whom we had the opportunity to interview: we must stop making shortcuts and avoid at all costs "to save effort."

Anti-Asian racism, Thérèse therefore denounces and also endures it. This is why it is important for her to deconstruct all forms of discrimination to put an end to the stubborn clichés related to Asian communities. It is all the more burdensome when you are a woman of Asian origin: hypersexualization, for example, is constant: "There's this exoticization of women of color, and that's what gets dangerous."

Anti-Asian racism is growing alarmingly

Unfortunately, the Covid-19 pandemic has only reinforced this hatred of people of Asian origin around the world. At the beginning of February 2021, in Oakland in the United States, a surveillance video was circulating on social networks. It featured someone assaulting an elderly Asian man in the street. This aggression sparked outrage among anti-racist activists and Americans in general. The actor of the series Lost, Daniel Dae Kim, even spoke on the subject, deploring the lack of consideration of this scourge by public opinion, but also the media: "The growing number of hate crimes against Asian Americans continues to grow, despite our repeated pleas for help.", he declared.

In France, racism is also rife on social networks. With the onset of the coronavirus, there have been many hate tweets calling for assaulting people of Asian descent. In early November, the Paris prosecutor's office opened an investigation into "public provocation to commit an attack on the physical integrity of a racist person." Since then these posts on Twitter have been removed and the profiles of the authors have been flagged and deleted. Saphia Aït Ouarabi, vice-president of SOS Racism declared to Slate : "Even if these messages are few, their audience calls out. There is a dark side to the number of 'likes', synonymous with an endorsement that is difficult to condemn legally. "