More cute studies websites from around the world:
Aww-Struck: Creative and Critical Approaches to Cuteness (Caroline Harris, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK & Dr. Isabel Galleymore, University of Birmingham, UK)
CuteStudies.org Portal (Dr. Joshua Paul Dale, Chuo University, Japan)
Megan Catherine Rose's Website (Dr. Megan Catherine Rose, UNSW Sydney, Australia)
Recommended readings offering Japanese and Asian American women's perspectives on kawaii and cuteness:
Bow, Leslie. "Racist Cute: Caricature, Kawaii-Style, and the Asian Thing." American Quarterly 71, no. 1 (2019): 29–58.
Iseri, Makiko. "Flexible Femininities? Queering Kawaii in Japanese Girls’ Culture." Twenty-First Century Feminism: Forming and Performing Femininity, edited by Nally Claire and Angela Smith. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Kanesaka, Erica. "The Healing Power of Virtual Cuteness." Public Books, March 17, 2022, https://www.publicbooks.org/kawaii-cuteness-in-animal-crossing-new-horizons/.
Kanesaka, Erica. "The Mixed-Race Fantasy Behind Kawaii Aesthetics." Catapult, January 17, 2023, https://catapult.co/stories/the-mixed-race-fantasy-behind-kawaii-aesthetics-japanese-post-racial-cute-licca-chan-erica-kanesaka.
Lee, Wendy Allison. "Cute. Dangerous. Asian American. 'Gremlins' @35." Public Books, July 5, 2019, https://www.publicbooks.org/cute-dangerous-asian-american-gremlins-35/.
McKee, Kimberly. "The Consumption of Adoption and Adoptees in American Middlebrow Culture." Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly 42, no. 3 (2019): 669–92.
Rose, Megan Catherine, Haruka Kurebayashi, and Rei Saionji. "Kawaii Affective Assemblages: Cute New Materialism in Decora Fashion, Harajuku." M/C Journal 25, no. 4 (2022), https://doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2926.
Tran, Sharon. "Kawaii Asian Girls Save the Day! Animating a Minor Politics of Care." MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S. 43, no. 3 (2018): 19–41.
Yano, Christine R. Pink Globalization: Hello Kitty’s Trek Across the Pacific. Durham: Duke University Press, 2013.