as much as i enjoy cyberpunk aesthetics, cyberpunk as a whole was built on yellow peril so don’t let the fancy neon buildings and and cool tech fool you

this is a really good read on the history of racism against asians in the west and the fear they have during the 80’s/90’s when Korea and Japan were dominating tech industry http://extscifi.weebly.com/uploads/8/9/4/7/8947540/article46.pdf

this has similar elements as the alien/asian excerpt, but since this was recent and ties in with cp 2077 it’s also a great read https://www.wired.com/story/orientalism-cyberpunk-2077-yellow-peril-science-fiction/amp

vice is not the greatest press out there but that can be said for many but this dissects on why there aren’t any asian characters/casts in a world that’s filled with asian imagery https://www.vice.com/en/article/59dxmb/cyberpunk-cities-fetishize-asian-culture-but-have-no-asians

i wanted to find sources on transphobia in the genre but the searches were mainly filled with the game and its transphobic elements ://

this was such a lazy thread but if anyone wants to make a well thought out thread using a couple of these sources please go ahead, and of course there’s a lot more great articles/sources that delves deep into this topic