I’m a Filipina-American born and raised in New York, currently residing in Montreal, Canada. Both of my parents are from the Philippines (Central Luzon, to be exact), which is north of Manila. I’ve been in the gaming space since 2016 as a twitch streamer, streaming Dark Souls, but have been gaming since I was veryContinue reading “FILIPINO AMERICAN HISTORY MONTH – Highlighting our Filipino members!”
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HOW DID THE “STOP ASIAN / AAPI HATE” MOVEMENTS CHANGE YOU?
We asked our Discord members how the Stop Asian Hate / Stop AAPI Hate movements resonated with them and how it changed them.Here is what they told us: “It was scary that it had to be a thing. I was terrified and sad that my parents had to warn my younger brother who is atContinue reading “HOW DID THE “STOP ASIAN / AAPI HATE” MOVEMENTS CHANGE YOU?”
“I never felt truly represented by Asian women in media in general.”
I was adopted in Vietnam when I was a baby (I have two little sisters who were adopted there as well, two years later), then raised in France, where have been a victim of racism for my entire life – sometimes aggressive, sometimes it was more like ‘jokes’ about my skin colors, what I couldContinue reading ““I never felt truly represented by Asian women in media in general.””
Immigrants have to be “integrated” (…) or are deemed as outsiders, as failures.
I’ve been struggling with so many feelings over the past weeks/months/years/decades regarding my identity — a word I dislike especially the way it’s been used in, I think, Western languages. I find that the way parts of white/Western cultures talk about identities as something somewhat fixed, as something to be either weaponized or reclaimed, isContinue reading “Immigrants have to be “integrated” (…) or are deemed as outsiders, as failures.”
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