Posts by Ayesha Sharma
Let’s Be Real, Mainstream LGBTQIA+ Organizations Aren’t Really Showing Up For QTPOC. Here’s What They Need To Do Now
The ‘LGBTQIA+ community’ is rife with hierarchies in power, and it’s been time to not just include, but center the most vulnerable members.
Read More5 Reasons Why Asian Respectability Will Never Save Us
Our proximity to whiteness doesn’t make us better, it just makes us more complicit in a system that continues to exploit Black and Indigenous (BI) POC.
Read MoreCan Asian-Americans Appropriate Their Own Culture?
Sometimes, reclaiming culture can also mean self-stereotyping. And doing so can further perpetuate narrow and harmful conceptions of who we are.
Read MoreLet’s Talk About “Asian Sadness”
Hearing the phrase “Asian sadness” made me feel like my depression linked to my Asian American identity isn’t just something I made up.
Read MoreYou May Have Heard About Gender Dysphoria, Now Let’s Talk About Cultural Dysphoria
When we live with marginal identities we often have few frameworks for understanding how to move beyond narrow ideas of what our lives should look like.
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