A Video Essay about Para-social Relationships (K-pop, BL and Feminism) (2024)

Building para-social relationships with people in the screen is becoming a common experience for our generation, and having intimacy issues is a big problem which Gen Z are facing when it comes to love life. In this video essay, I am trying to find out the reasons from a perspective of an East Asian woman, and how my own ideas about love and intimacy are largely influenced by sub-cultures such as K-pop and shipping culture, along with reflections of women’s status and situation within our contemporary society.