Personal Stories – Project AWR

“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.”