Author: Angelica Silva
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Bollywood Made Me Feel Like an “Inferior” Indian Because I’m South Indian
Featured Illustration: Hanifa Abdul Hameed One night, I was at a mutual friend’s party when I overheard two brown guys having a conversation about a girl one of them had just begun dating. “Hey so, I heard you were dating a Southie girl?” “Nah, no way. Northies for life.” As…
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These WOC are Challenging the Stereotypical Asian Definition of Success
What does success look like to you? Generally, you would expect a unique answer from most people you ask this question to. But for many children of immigrants and their parents, their response to this question echoes one of the most deeply-rooted stereotypes socially constructed within immigrant cultures. Too often,…
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Am I Too Brown, or Not Brown Enough: Why We Have to Drop the Whitewashing Rhetoric
Featured Artwork: Manjit Thapp “So, you’ve really never watched any of the classic Bollywood movies?” asked a brown girl I had just met at a friend’s party. “Not even Kuch Kuch Hota Hai? Or Kal Ho Naa Ho?!” With a sheepish grin, I shook my head at each one. “Uh…