Hello, my friend! I’d like to welcome you to my blog.❤️
Let me introduce myself to you first. I’m Jessica, and I’m a fourth-year student at Queen’s University. As one of a few Asian students who is majoring in gender studies, I dedicate myself to the empowerment of Asian women’s voices in Western culture. Therefore, I want to use this space as a platform to speak up for Asian women and to share their stories with you all. In “Hear Our Voices,” you will be reading interesting life experiences of Asian women living in Canada, and you will be hearing various stories that reveal authentic images of Asian women. Most importantly, you will be provided with the chance to eliminate all your previous prejudices and stereotypes against Asian women here.
Here are some topics that you might be interested in.
Life stories of Asian people living in Canada
Q&A: Do you really know about Asian?
Uncovering the “Asian myth”
While the overall experience is great, I've still had a few times feeling excluded as an Asian student in the class. It was one time at a group discussion. I was assigned to team up with two other white girls. After getting into the group, they started to express their thoughts without a pause, and to have eye contact only with each other, giving me no chance to speak. Although I tried to express my opinion, this conversation still made me feel like being an outsider. Moreover, in my gender studies classes, whenever we talk about issues of race, Muslim and black people are always the primary subjects, and Asian people are rarely discussed. Combining with my own experiences, I would really love to use this online space ----“Hear Our Voices” to draw your attention on Asian people and to bring their stories closer to your life with the help of social media.
Social media has its power of bringing every one of us together to this online platform and allowing us to exchange ideas and information with strangers. As a result, people around the world all have an equal chance to read my posts and to contribute themselves to raise Asian people’s voices in Western society. Are you going to be one of them? Feel free to share your thoughts and leave your comment under any posts! It is my pleasure having you here!
Hopefully you will enjoy reading my posts and get some inspirations here!
