“When Tran wrote about the challenges of being an Asian woman in a white-male-dominated world they sounded hauntingly familiar,” writes Jade Wu. Many of us Asian women in the Western hemisphere can relate to belonging only in the margins and spaces, being put in minor roles, and being seen only to serve someone’s love interest. Sometimes it is about being Asian and other times it is about being an Asian woman. What about the rest of us Asian women? As Tran’s character in Star Wars was part of the Resistance, I believe we Asian women in the West are part of a resistance too — against a system that disadvantages us.

Source: thestar September 06, 2018 19:27 UTC