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Aditi is a writer+artist based in Brooklyn, NY, and is best known for writing about immigrants, representation, and entertainment.
I know the irony of *me* writing an article about EA and SA voices drowning out other Asian voices is very apparent, so I may just help someone else pitch it :) Identify yourself to me on Tw if you want—we can be friends :)
Right? Minoritized people can assume the mantle of solidarity but without real commitment to addressing the *differences* in oppression & rectifying them intra-community, it’s fake. Solidarity doesn’t happen naturally. It has to be more mindful than that.
Thanks for reading!
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<3 Thank you for your comment. While I alluded to this issue of "Asian America" being flattened into a monoculture—I could have pointed directly to East & South Asian voices shouting over others. I'm writing a separate article on that, but it could have been in this one too.
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Aha I just meant that facetiously! I loved your comment. <333
Are you writing my next article for me??? Tyty
“fuck piece” lmao. Mara literally changed her first name to up her prestige/show off her privilege. We get it, you’re sports royalty. Dunham’s parents were the definition of art parents.
She’s not ha-ha funny, she’s...
I’m betting it will be for Emma Watson or Sofia Coppola. The others surely have fallen out of favor?
Confession: It was very hard to write it.