Daily Reflection of a Xinjiang Person

by Yi Xiaocuo

This image portrays daily reflection of a Xinjiang person and the perpetual silence, stigma, and representational violence they always have to face alone.

English translation of the Chinese characters from top to bottom:
Western region, good at drinking, separatism, uncivilized, backward, cult, frontier, good at singing and dancing, kebab, Xinjiang dance, ethnic minority, east Turkistan, poverty, superstitious, independence, hand-pulled noodle, backward, traitor, thief district, terrorism, extremism, exotic, little sister, undeveloped, pretty, sexy, foreign forces.

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