Making Noise
I want my kids to grow up and never hear “go back to your own country.” Like I did.
I want my kids to grow up without their voices stifled, their hearts trampled. I want them to be noisy and proud. Free of the burden of not belonging.
Because you don’t hear a lot about noisy Asians. More than likely, you don’t think about Asian people at all.
That invisibility is the problem.
Here’s what keeps you from seeing & hearing us:
🏆 Model minority myth : you think we’re “quiet, obedient & hard working.”
🚷 Bamboo ceiling : we’re a third of corporate America but 1.5x less likely to be promoted to the C-suite than White people.
👊 Anti Asian violence : we’re easy victims as violent hate crimes against us has spiked 339% this year.
So hey, it’s not an easy time to be Asian.
We’re more than our alignments & contradictions to a tired, ethnic stereotype. We’re trying our hearts out to fit into a world that doesn’t seem to care.
And we need the world to care about our entire, silently suffering community.
So it’s time to be a Noisy Asian.
Because we have to do better.
Please, hear us.
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Thank you to the noisy Asians here who inspire including Lily Buranasombhop, Sharon Panelo, Nayantara Mukherji, Minjae Ormes, Mita Mallick, Dave Lu, Jerry Won, Bernice Chao, Lily Zheng & so many more
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