Ever been told you are ‘someone's type’, but because of your ethnicity rather than personality? Have you ever been told you are someones shade? Fetishising race has been part of a long and troubling history that has been an issue through time, from black people's bodies fetishised since slavery, to South Asian women being seen as submissive by western males. From the recurring “I want mixed race children” justification of seeking out a particular race, to the exclusively dating outside of your own race. Is it racist to say "I only date black guys”?

But what are the common things that come up? What does it mean to be a minority not in the abstract but in the reality in the pursuit of love. The infamous OKCupid study in 2014 found that Asian men and Black women get fewer matches than other races on dating apps. Furthermore, white men and Asian women appeared to receive the most matches (data focused on heterosexual users).

We want to explore this prominent issue in today's culture, including experiences of online dating in a world where people of colour constantly feel like they are degraded to a fetish, and how emotionally damaging this can be.

Unpretty Podcast

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Vick Hope

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Notes of Love - https://fentonand.co/products/notes-on-love

BBC Radio 1 Life Hacks - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09c189d

Evelyn Mok

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BBC iPlayer, Bring British East Asian - https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/p08m19bz/being-british-east-asian-sex-beauty-bodies

What Is This Behaviour, Ep 17 - Interracial Dating - https://open.spotify.com/episode/7dN2Ffv8QolAii3NIJomFR

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