Focuses on high-end appeal, "it-girl" energy, and exclusive aesthetics. The Exotica Edit.

— but more precisely, her 2011/2012 essay: “The Gift of Freedom: War, Debt, and Other Refugee Passages” touches on “exotica” and racialized femininity. However, the exact phrase appears in: “Model, Hot, Tabloid, Exotica” — a section or conceptual framework in Nguyen’s “The Biopower of Beauty” (or unpublished talk).