Yelim Lee is a PhD student in Communication at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Though her bachelor’s and master’s was in Anthropology, she found her way to Communication primarily through an interest in digital culture and politics. Her research areas include Asian American digital politics, racial capitalism, and critical digital studies. Her work currently involves investigating radical Asian American nationalist communities and their commodification of Asian American women’s sexual and body labor in service of negotiating their Asian American masculinity in America. Her secondary line of research involves intersection of influencers, egg donation, and the racialized sale of body parts online.
Keywords: digital politics, radical communities, Asian American, racial capitalism, influencer culture
