My current research focuses on Asian American social media, popular culture, and youth cultures, specifically the Asian Baby Girl (ABG) subculture.PEER-REVIEWED SCHOLARSHIP
Trazo, Talitha Angelica Acaylar. (2025) "Good Asian Girls Gone Bad: The Model Minoritization and Sexualization of Asian American Teen Girls in Netflix Originals To All the Boys I've Loved Before (2018), Never Have I Ever (2020), and Dash and Lily (2020)" in Shifting Gender Identities in Popular Culture: Essays on Representation Since 2010, Eds. Laura Getty and Josef Vice.Salinas, Stacey Anne Baterina and Trazo, Talitha Angelica (Angel) Acaylar. (2023). The Asian Baby Girl (ABG) Through a Filipina American Lens. Alon Journal for Filipinx and Diasporic Studies.Trazo, Talitha Angelica (Angel) Acaylar and Kim, Woohee. (2023). Crazy Rich Asian International Students: The Model Minority Myth and Microaggressions Between Asian International and Asian American Students in Higher Education in Microaggressions and Lateral Violence in Higher Education: A Global Perspective, Eds. Christine Cho and Julie Corkett.Trazo, Angel. (2021). King-Kok Cheung, Nora Okja Keller, and Adrian Tomine in Asian American Literature: An Encyclopedia for Students, Ed. Keith Lawrence.Fong, Kelly, Izumi, Elyse, and Trazo, Angel. (2021). Lessons Learned Teaching Asian American Studies in Spring 2020. Amerasia Journal 46(3): 297-314.Trazo, Angel. (2020). Wanna Get Boba? The Bond Between Boba and Asian American Youth Culture in San Jose, CA. UCLA Master's in Asian American Studies, thesis.Trazo, Angel and Woohee Kim. (2019). Where Are You From?: Using Critical Race Theory and Graphic Novel Counter-stories to Illustrate the Microaggressions Experienced by Two Angry Asian Girls. Intersections: Critical Issues in Education 3(2): 112-133.Rosencrans WM, Walsh ZH, Houerbi N, Blum A, Belew M, Liu C, Chernak B, Brauer PR, Trazo A, Olson A, Hagos E. (2019). Cells deficient for Kruppel-Like Factor 4 exhibit mitochondrial dysfunction and impaired mitophagy. European Journal of Cell Biology 99(1).
PEER-REVIEWED CREATIVE SCHOLARSHIP
Maira, Sunaina. Illustrated by Trazo, Angel. "Stories from the Frontlines of the Pandemic: Imperial Wars, Bans, and Everyday Resistance by Arab Americans," in decolonial manual, Ed. Valery Vino, Punctum Books. (Forthcoming).Pham, Josephine and Trazo, Talitha Angelica Acaylar. "'I'll Walk Out if You Walk Out': A Comic on How Students of Color Utilize Racial Micropolitical Literacy in Their Everyday Lives," in Bank Street Occasional Paper Series 53.Trazo, Talitha Angelica (Angel) Acaylar. (2023) Visual Notetaking as Asian American Art Practice. Amerasia Journal (Special Issue): Creativity and Critique in Asian American Literature.Trazo, Angel. (2022). NeMLA Conference Diary. Modern Language Studies (MLS) 52(1), 6-7. My visual notes are also featured on the MLS website, "Sketch Notes".Trazo, Angel. (2020). Teaching During a Pandemic. ASAP/Journal 5(3): 556-558.CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
Johnson, Katrina. Illustrated by Trazo, Angel. (2023). A Father's Love. Published by Melanin Origins.Yogi, Stan, Byun-Kitayama, Chiae, Trazo, Angel Luong, Joanne, and Umemoto, Karen. (2021). Vanessa Unmuted (e-book). Created with the Asian American Studies Center and LA Unified School District.Trazo, Angel. (2019). We Are Inspiring: The Stories of 32 Inspirational Asian American Women.
POETRY
Trazo, Angel. (2021). "How to Make Empanadas." Into the Country of Our Kitchen: An Anthology from the Interdisciplinary Writer's Lab of 2021.COMICS
Trazo, Angel. (2021). "Family Reunions." Hello Barkada, Comics 2.BLOG
Asian American Graphic Novel & Comic Book Collection Project
NEWS ARTICLES
Trazo, Angel. "Heartfelt Tribute to Moms Gets Underway." March 11, 2018. AsAmNews.
Trazo, Angel. "Anti-Asian Vandalism on Dorm at Colgate University." March 31, 2018. AsAmNews.
Trazo, Angel. "Asian women Navigating Gender and Race Launch New Organization." March 8, 2018. AsAmNews.
