“ Community Action Against Racism (CAAR) stands in solidarity with the work of the Don’t Buy Miss Saigon Coalition. CAAR’s mission is to hold institutions accountable for spreading negative ethnic and racial stereotypes. Supporting the Coalition aligns with CAAR’s work around racial justice and activating…
“ Stonewall DFL officially joins the protest of the Ordway’s performance of Miss Saigon due to its perpetuating negative stereotypes of women and persons of color and its romanticizing of human trafficking. Our history is in step with the traditions of standing up to persecution…
“Art is no stranger to controversy, but the stereotypes perpetuated by Miss Saigon do little to advance our understanding of the actual culture and experiences of the Asian Community. Miss Saigon is rash with racism and sexism, and performances of the show have a detrimental…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Chay Douangphouxay, Coalition Media Contact, chayd2007@gmail.com Margie Andreason, Coalition Media Contact, 213-375-5572 or dontbuymisssaigon@gmail.com Don’t Buy Miss Saigon: The Unity Event Saint Paul, Minn. – October 1, 2013 – On the Ordway’s opening night of Miss Saigon, community members have created…
From MN State Representative Phyllis Kahn’s Twitter feed:
We refuse to buy Miss Saigon — literally and figuratively. We will not pay for tickets to a show that says Asian American women are subject to the whims of white men, or that they are nothing but objects for sexual gratification. We refuse to believe that human trafficking is something at which we should gape. We do not support the myth that U.S.-based adoption is the best and only option for Asian children. And we roundly challenge a Southeast Asian wartime narrative that ignores colonialism and racial privilege.
I am a Vietnamese woman. I am queer. I am somewhere between masculine and feminine. I was born in Saigon and now a US citizen living in Minnesota. Miss Saigon missed the boat my family and I took to get here.
“Miss Saigon thrives on the corrupting Orientalism that is no longer culturally permissible among people of taste and good will. It is cultural trash that demeans both Vietnamese and Americans. It overflows with the quasi-racial condescension that cruelly stereotyped Vietnamese nationalists as moral midgets. It is an insult to all those who fought and died for freedom and justice for the people of South Vietnam.”
