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a case for reading asian writers, not just asian americans

Only for my Substack subscribers (ily), here is an extended cut of this essay I was grateful to publish last month in one of my favorite magazines, the Emancipator! I take pleasure in being a hater of fellow Asian Americans. We make it too easy! To be a first-generation Asian in America is to be caught in a perpetual state of puberty. There are growing pains and awkward phases, like obsessing over white romantic partners (see: the collective ouvre of Mindy Kaling), or appropriating Black culture (hello Awkwafina), or else writing so-called mango diaspora poetry romanticizing the homeland.…

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