How to balance the collectivist instincts instilled through my upbringing and the individualistic urges influenced by my environment. Recently, I saw a TikTok video of an Asian woman getting her 23andMe results. In a mere 15 seconds, she opens the envelope, looks at it and shows the audience what it Read more…
As an Asian woman, I get discriminated against for being female and for being Asian. Here are 9 Asian female stereotypes that need to die. Why not both? I wish this meant I having both soft and hard tacos but instead it’s experiencing both sexism and racism as an Asian woman. Read more…
Microaggression is subtle. It’s hard to tell as the person doing the discriminating or the person being discriminated against. Here are 9 examples of microaggression that I’ve experienced as an Asian Canadian. Microaggressions are subtle I have to admit that as an educated, Canadian-born, Millennial woman, I didn’t know what microaggressions Read more…