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Kristina Wong

American comedian Kristina Wong is most recognized for her performances in solo theater, as a performance artist, and as an actress. She considers herself a feminist, and in her work, she frequently uses satire to address issues of privilege, sex, and race, frequently about the experience of Asian Americans.

Early Life

Kristina was born in San Francisco to Gwen Wong, who worked as an accountant. She is a third-generation Chinese American. In the 1930s, her grandmother left Guang Mei Cun, a village close to Kaiping county, and moved to the United States. Wong studied speech at a Catholic high school for all female students.

University of California, Los Angeles, was Wong's place of attendance. She developed "Big Bad Chinese Mama," a fictitious mail-order bride website, for her senior project to address the fetishization of Asian women by white men. The website was promoted in Asian pornographic chat rooms, adjacent to massage ads in the local newspaper, and through search engine optimization. It contained biographies of actual Asian women and images of them in combative stances and harsh verbiage criticizing the possible mail-order bride search of the viewer.

With dual degrees in English and Global Arts and Cultures and a minor in Asian American Studies, she earned her diploma in 2000. Later, she spoke at graduations for the UCLA English Department in 2008 and the Asian Pacific Islander graduation (APIG) organized by students in 2014. During the latter, she discussed redefining the sex appeal of Asian American men.

Career

Wong was elected to the Wilshire Center Koreatown Neighborhood Council in April 2019, a primarily voluntary post that meets once a month at the local library.

The program debuted in San Francisco in 2015, and Emily Mendelsohn is in charge of directing. The program initially concentrated on "economics, the stock market, and theory" while it was being established during a residence at York University in Toronto. Her earlier works parodied Western society's prejudices of Asian American women, such as fetishism and the notion of the model minority. In that vein, Wong Street questions the patronizing Western perspective of Africa, including her own, such as the requirement for clothing donations.

Wong took time off in September 2013 to work as a volunteer with a microloan organization in Northern Uganda.

During the program, Wong talks about her travels and condemns white privilege in America while grappling with the additional advantage of being a Westerner in a developing nation.